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Hearst Television

Hearst Television, formerly Hearst-Argyle, is the broadcast station group of the privately held Hearst media company, owning 35 television and two radio stations across 27 US media markets.

HeartFlow

Heartflow, formerly Cardiovascular Simulation, Inc., is a San Francisco medical-software company whose AI platform turns a coronary CT angiogram into a 3D heart model to diagnose coronary artery disease.

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative

The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative is a debt-relief framework launched by the IMF and World Bank in 1996 to reduce the external debt of the poorest countries to sustainable levels.

Hebei Yipin Pharmaceutical (一品制药)

Hebei Yipin Pharmaceutical (一品制药) is a Chinese generic pharmaceutical company founded in 2013 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, producing APIs and formulations, including antihypertensives, anesthetics, and compound α-ketoacid; it withdrew a ChiNext IPO in 2024.

HEC Paris

HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) is a French grande école of business founded in 1881, at Jouy-en-Josas near Paris, ranked among Europe's leading business schools.

Heckman correction

The Heckman correction, also known as the Heckit method, is a two-step econometric procedure proposed by James Heckman in 1979 that corrects for sample selection bias.

Heckscher–Ohlin model

The Heckscher–Ohlin model, also known as the Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson model, is a general-equilibrium theory of trade in which countries export goods intensive in their abundant factors, developed by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.

Héctor Martínez (businessman)

Héctor Martínez is an engineer who co-founded the 3D bioprinting company CELLINK in Gothenburg in 2016, serving as Chief Technology Officer and later Deputy CEO of BICO.

Hedera Dx

Hedera Dx is a Swiss molecular-diagnostics company founded in 2021 near Lausanne that lets hospital labs run liquid-biopsy cancer testing in-house, deployed in 11 European countries by 2025.

Hedera Hashgraph (company)

Hedera Hashgraph, now doing business as Hedera Council, is a company formed in 2017 by Swirlds to develop and govern the Hedera distributed ledger network and its HBAR token.

Hedge (finance)

A hedge is a position taken to offset the price risk of an existing or anticipated exposure, with losses on one leg compensated by gains on the other.

Hedge accounting

Hedge accounting is a set of financial reporting rules that formally links a derivative with the item it hedges, aligning their effects on earnings and reducing volatility.

Hedge fund

A hedge fund is a private investment pool for accredited investors that uses leverage, short selling, and derivatives, managing a record $5.15 trillion in 2025.

Hedonic price index

A hedonic price index is a price index built from a regression of product prices on their measurable characteristics, separating quality change from pure price change when products improve.

Hedonic price model

The hedonic price model is an econometric method that regresses the prices of heterogeneous goods like housing on their characteristics, unbundling price into implicit attribute values.

Hedonic pricing

Hedonic pricing is an econometric method that estimates the implicit prices of product attributes, most often houses, valuing unpriced characteristics like clean air and schools.

Hedonic treadmill

The hedonic treadmill, also called hedonic adaptation, is the theory that people's happiness returns to a baseline after changes in circumstances, coined in 1971 by Brickman and Campbell.

Hedosophia

Hedosophia is a London-based technology investment firm co-founded by Ian Osborne in 2012 that invests in technology companies and sponsors SPACs, including Hedosophia European Growth, which listed on Euronext Amsterdam in 2021.

Hefu Investment

Hefu Investment (赫富投资) is a Shanghai-based quantitative private fund manager founded in 2016, which crossed 10 billion yuan in assets in 2021 and manages about 15 billion yuan.

Hefu Noodles (和府捞面)

Hefu Noodles (和府捞面) is a Chinese premium noodle-restaurant chain founded by Li Xuelin in Jiangsu in 2012, serving noodles in mall stores styled as study rooms.

Heidelberg University Hospital

Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, UKHD) is the university hospital of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany, one of Europe's largest medical centers with over 50 specialist departments.

Heidi Cruz

Heidi Suzanne Cruz is an American investment banker, a Goldman Sachs managing director in Houston and former Bush administration economic official, married to Senator Ted Cruz.

Heidi Kühn

Heidi Kühn is an American humanitarian and nonprofit executive who founded Roots of Peace in 1997 to restore farmland after landmine removal, winning the 2023 World Food Prize.

Heilongjiang Chenneng Investment Group

Heilongjiang Chenneng Investment Group, known in Chinese as Chenneng Group, is a provincial state-owned investment holding company in Heilongjiang, China, founded in 1986 and renamed in 2009.

HeimKapital

Heimkapital is a Munich-based real estate platform founded in 2019 that buys up to 50 percent of owner-occupied homes while owners aged 55 and over keep living there.

Heinrich Netheler

Heinrich Netheler (1909–1999) was a German engineer who co-founded the Hamburg workshop that became Eppendorf SE in 1945, maker of the standard Eppendorf pipette and tubes.

Heinz Georg Baus

Heinz Georg Baus (1934–2016) was a German retail entrepreneur who founded Bauhaus, the DIY home-improvement chain, opening Germany's first self-service store in Mannheim in 1960.

Heinz Nixdorf

Heinz Nixdorf (1925–1986) was a German computing pioneer who built Nixdorf Computer AG of Paderborn into one of Europe's leading computer makers, with 23,000 employees.

Heirs Holdings

Heirs Holdings is a family-owned African investment holding company founded in 2010 by Tony O. Elumelu, taking long-term stakes in power, energy, financial services, and healthcare across 24 countries.

Heirs of August von Finck junior

The heirs of August von Finck junior are his widow Francine and their four children, who inherited an estimated 8.3 billion euros when the banker died in 2021.