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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
the down payment, we’ll start a family and bring on the nanny. We’re going to spend my bonus on the down payment for that house. All of those decisions are all making sense in the short term. It’s what everyone else is doing, but then it...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process...
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
named after HTTP status codes. Zatlyn: Very nerdy but we love it. We’re just so proud of the name. We love our conference room names. Flint: Let’s hear some examples. Prince: So I mean 404, which is page not found. We inadvertently made the room that we do most of our...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
homeowners have to put sweat equity into the construction of their house, and the homes of other Habitat families, and also purchase the house.” With the average cost of a Habitat home at $67,500, a typical monthly mortgage payment (which...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
investor interest is rising in both the public and the private sector: In December, the US Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of programs and prizes meant to further kick-start the industry; In April, payments giant Stripe...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
services, pawn shops, and payment and loan services in neighborhoods like South Central LA," Tufano notes, "but very few institutions that would help people accumulate savings." A 1999 Harvard Business Review article cowritten by Tufano,...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in 2019....
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
payment of $1,” Baer laughs. “It was probably the first and last single-figure contract in broadcast history.” After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, Baer parlayed the experience, contacts, and notoriety he gained during his...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
had worked so hard for was the very thing that would kill us. That realization led me to the development of NOWaccount, a merchant service that relieves small businesses from the burden of funding and managing trade credit by immediately enabling View Details
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their previous state subsidies reduced and replaced by more modest payments from the insurance plans now covering their patients.” But overall, Slavin says that the Massachusetts model could work nationally, though he notes the state...
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