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- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
thousands of children in his native country. He went on fact-finding missions, acquiring intel from Vanessa Kirsch, CEO of New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund supported by the Monitor Group and HBS professor Michael...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
most effective boards are those at companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the center of both environmental quality and economic competitiveness. Cities that can harness public and private capital and competency to build out efficient infrastructure will be far more competitive than their less prescient peers in...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
$70 million to almost $700 million—to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. Then, with MCC assistance, countries take the lead in designing and implementing programs, with both the MCC and the recipient country conducting regular and rigorous View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
private investment," says Bloom. "Fortune 500 companies have told us that they read our scorecards every year." In countries where the MCC operates, a government entity implements the program agenda, in addition to View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
local and state-owned enterprises had been privatized. Significantly, the Chinese constitution was amended in 1998 to describe the private sector as “an important component” of the economy, an about-face from communist tenets on state...
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- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
consumer, today’s competition, and the wealth of media at your disposal. In-depth discussion highlights the field’s ever-increasing connectivity, with practical guidance on brand design and storytelling, social media marketing, branding in the service sector, View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
in six-month apprenticeships with corporate partners like Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, and Partners HealthCare. Upon graduation, Chertavian says, more than 85 percent of Year Up alumni find jobs in financial services or IT support. Recognized twice by...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
found in poor countries; bad legislation and ineffective judiciaries in rich nations can enable it.” Defined by the watchdog group Trans-parency International (TI) as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” corruption includes a...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
stadium crowds cheering live sports? Angela: Well, I think you're one going to see sports played without fans first, then we'll see the six-feet-apart model where we'll go down to 20 percent capacity and maybe the private booths are...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop competitive View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
private investors, including Viana’s father-in-law, stepped forward with stakes of 100,000 and above. A regional grant available to Normandy businesses was good for 100,000. Finally, one bank did come around, loaning another 300,000. A...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron, who plans to become involved...
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