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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
look no further than five factors historically associated with financial crises: inflated prices of real estate, institutions with high levels of leverage, new products falling into regulatory gaps, rapid growth in an View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable...
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Amy Yee
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is...
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- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
companies to source capital — the equity markets exited this business for the most part when oil prices fell to such low levels in 1997 and 1998, and banks slowed down their lending as well." "If smaller...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years,...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: Mix Master by Sean Silverthorne In contemporary culture, a remix is the bringing together of assets in new ways—a song that combines recording samples from Otis Redding or Brenda Lee, say, placed in a new Kanye West wrapper....
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
—Simon Pellas (MBA 2019) I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the B2B2C model in this industry. There are many stakeholders: Brokers will only adopt tech that will change the listing price or their fee...
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- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation
his third year leading Monaco’s digital transformation, Genta is capitalizing on the country’s strengths in pursuit of this vision to further public service and enhance economic prosperity. “What makes Monaco different is that we have an...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
and we made believe that the sponsors, the biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB Financial...
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- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
inefficiencies and waste in a business where every penny really does count. Did you ever expect to be in the retail industry? No, never. I was trained as an electrical design engineer and spent four years in venture capital after leaving...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
companies (in terms of both stock market and accounting measures) that adopted almost none of these policies. Energized by Eccles’s work, the effort to advance integrated corporate reporting as a vehicle for transforming capitalism is...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
of newspapers and magazines. And yet, as print ads flee online for pennies on the dollar — and newsprint prices jump while circulation and newsstand sales slump — these enterprises have never seen their financial prospects dim so rapidly....
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