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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
on economic development in the two countries? Yes. In China, whenever there is a conflict between societal interests and private property rights, government will err on the side of society’s interest. In...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Trust your instincts. “Make sure you can raise your hand and say, ‘Something doesn’t look right.’ ” Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 1, 2003 Sponsor: HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity...
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- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization (TIMO), a View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks, diminished government support, and...
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- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
secretary has continued to be a blessing, as I’ve been in the middle of communications between members of our class and HBS for the past 40 years.” Freeman returned to the company after HBS, but after five years decided to put the knowledge he had gained to use in the...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
for reliable, affordable water service. Nearly two of every three gallons of water pumped through the dilapidated distribution system were lost or stolen. Desperate for a remedy, the Philippine government invited the private sector to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and independent hotels. Spun out...
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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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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
His research focuses on venture capital organizations and their role in transforming scientific discoveries into commercial products. Much of this research is collected in The Venture Capital Cycle, a forthcoming book from the MIT Press. He has also studied the impact...
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- 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 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist
government in two ways. First, stop spending so much. Second, reduce the cost of government by half in the next 25 years. We want to drop the cost of government by four measures: spending as a percentage of GDP, regulatory burden as a percentage of GDP, total...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
semiconductors and disk drives in the 1990s. But for a city-state without natural resources, the new millennium belongs to a knowledge-based economy, and the Biopolis, which opened in 2003, is at the center of that. "In late 1989, I recommended that we build up strong...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
knowledge, can and did revitalize companies quickly. Corporate board members, please take note! The impact of our classmates also can be seen across the globe. Raymond Kwok's astute management of Hong Kong–based Sun Hung Kai Properties...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit
response, last November iVillage combined several of its content properties under a new umbrella destination, iVillage.com: The Women's Network (www.ivillage.com). The site offers women access to nine "channels" on topics such as careers,...
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Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships, however, science with commercial applications began thriving outside corporate R&D silos. And the availability of venture capital for technology start–ups made it harder to keep scientists with hot new ideas in–house. The result is an active market for...
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