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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Lavine Family Makes Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships “We do not believe that intellect is distributed based on income.” —Jeannie Lavine (MBA 1992) “We do not believe that intellect is distributed based...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
School relies on philanthropic revenue from past and current giving to fund over a quarter of its operating expenses. The HBS endowment, built over decades with gifts from alumni and friends, provides crucial funds in the form of an annual View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
exceed our targeted cash from operations.” This year, alumni will receive details of the School’s financial performance in an expanded, annual report format, which will offer a better sense of how HBS financial resources — including gifts from the ongoing $500 million...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
instrumental in beginning a tradition of meetings for all European alumni. The first was held in Amsterdam in 1966, with HBS clubs in other European capitals subsequently following suit. The Club de France hosted the event in 1972, when...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage consumer tech company; and we didn’t have a good way to distribute our product. Today Teespring is doing the same thing Cameesa did. It’s worth hundreds of millions. The idea for TalkBin came from listening to our customers....
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April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
benefit the rich to reduce inequality? How so? Inequality drains capitalism of its robustness, of its opportunity to spread prosperity. It’s not a matter of reducing the take of the rich to redistribute it to the poor. It’s a matter of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
Duggan (MBA 2006). The venture capital investor, who serves as a non-executive director for Barclays UK, participated in a roundtable organized by the Europe Research Center. EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION READ MORE STORIES EMBRACING...
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April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
This fall marks the launch of the first capital campaign in Harvard Business School's 94-year history, with a goal of raising $500 million by the end of 2005. In the following interview, Dean Kim B. Clark talks about the current state of...
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- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new...
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- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
century’s end, as mail-order companies such as Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward gained ground and manufacturers began to sell their own distinctive brands and develop their own distribution networks. Birth of a Salesman includes a look...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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An Unconventional Suggestion
that American citizens, companies, and communities will fail to capitalize on this historic opportunity because of misunderstanding and distrust.” Alumni may view a recording of Professor Michael Porter’s recent Trending@HBS webinar talk...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
the quest for a coronavirus vaccine, science is only part of the story. This pandemic will not end with the development of a safe, effective inoculation. That inoculation also needs to be approved, manufactured, and distributed globally....
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
somehow revive the dormant business, stated a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2001). Seeking a new source of supply, Shearer eventually settled on Trinidad and Tobago, better known as the calypso capital of the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice
philanthropic structures Foundations, DAFs, and other vehicles are most often, in my experience, “pass through” entities wherein the donor uses the benefits of tax planning and simplicity of donation to give the money and then, over the next few months or years, View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward
the process-bound corporate executive. Lerner’s prescription for success is to align goals, streamline approval processes, provide powerful incentives, encourage experimentation and failure, and harvest and distribute valuable information...
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