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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
revenue alone. This public-private partnership helped the city finance and deliver water to millions of people when it did not have the cash or the capability to do it with city resources alone. Second, the public can help the private...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Southern California (USC) changed Velasquez’s trajectory, making it possible for him to become the first person in his family to attend college. But that was just the initial step toward Velasquez’s ultimate goal: to become a doctor View Details
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April White
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seven years old and did not speak a word of English. Her father, a pilot, often took the family on weekend adventures to locations that were accessible only by air, landing a single prop plane on roads while...
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Jennifer Myers
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
by Margie Kelley Alumni Tackle Climate Change Policy in Washington In a joint effort to foster a meaningful conversation on the role of business in shaping climate policy, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
“The Internet Ecosystem: Are You Ready?” HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean and director of External Relations, then provided an overview of recent events and View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
to come up with an info memo, a business plan, a market study, and a sort of road show? —Herve Pourcines (GMP 3, 2007) DITKOFF: As in business, philanthropists typically want to see proof of concept before...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
were asking important questions and making changes, and West saw companies taking initial steps to address diversity issues, including hiring diversity officers as senior...
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Maureen Harmon
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
issues. Williams-sonoma Williams-Sonoma is a great example precisely because it had such a hard road to travel from initial denial to its first round of successes. The CEO was converted from skeptic to...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
the crew members and so it was really an emotional situation and it was such an incredible feeling for them. Morrell: The name on the bracelet was Richard Perzyk. GRAC began an View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
levels of productivity. At 5.4 percent, 2002 saw the biggest annual gain in productivity growth since 1950. Like many consumers, companies are tightening their belts and doing more with less in an effort to...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500......
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
major business schools should create a formal and permanent directors’ institute with East and West Coast campuses. Its purpose would be to ensure that directors are intensively trained for View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from...
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Paul Flannery
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Italy, and Levy’s initial intuition seems to be paying off. In 2023, the company rolled out a first-generation quantum computer, SEEQC Red, which used conventional room-temperature control equipment to...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
This month marks the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Within weeks of their initial military assault, U.S. and coalition troops triumphed over the Iraqi army View Details
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
out, are often underestimated and even overlooked, but they all display an inner strength that wins the day. For Marcelo, a young woman born in the Philippines, the road to entrepreneurial success was marked...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
business in 2004, starting Chalsys, an investment and advisory practice that helps large companies avoid the pitfalls of corporate venturing. And it was through this company that she met a German investor...
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