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Hosam Arab
Hosam Arab is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later fintech he launched in Dubai in 2019 that became the Middle East's most valuable fintech, after co-founding Namshi.
Hosen Pharmaceutical (豪森药业)
Hosen Pharmaceutical (豪森药业), formally Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese pharmaceutical company founded by Zhong Huijuan in 1995, listed in Hong Kong since 2019.
Hosi (易快报)
Hosi (易快报), until April 2023 known as YikuaiBao, is a Beijing-based expense-management and corporate-spend SaaS company founded in November 2014 by Ma Chunquan, Yu Deming, and Fang Zhaoxue, which has raised over RMB 1.5 billion.
Hostaway
Hostaway is a Finland-headquartered software company offering an all-in-one vacation rental management platform, founded in 2015 and valued at a reported $925 million in 2024.
Hostplus
Hostplus is an Australian profit-for-member industry superannuation fund, established in 1987 to serve hospitality and tourism workers, managing over $158 billion for about 2 million members.
Hot Fun
Hot Fun (ХОТ ФАН) is a Belarusian chain of 24-hour slot-machine gaming clubs run by OOO Forsklab, and a Promatic slot machine brand behind Hot Fun Gaming Centres in Lagos, Nigeria; unrelated uses include a song title and a racehorse name.
Hot Sale (shopping event)
Hot Sale is an annual online discount shopping event in Latin America, launched in Mexico in 2014 by AMVO and held mainly in late May and early June.
Hotai Motor
Hotai Motor Co., Ltd. (和泰汽車) is a Taiwanese automotive distributor representing Toyota, Lexus, Hino, and Yokohama Tire, founded in 1947 and Taiwan's leading vendor for more than 20 consecutive years.
Hotel manager
A hotel manager, often the general manager (GM) of a hotel, is accountable for a lodging property's overall performance, measured by occupancy, RevPAR, and Gross Operating Profit.
Hotel rating
A hotel rating is a category, usually one to five stars, that classifies a hotel's facilities and service against published criteria, issued by governments or private inspectors.
Hotland Holdings
Hotland Holdings is a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Japanese food-service holding company, securities code 3196, founded by Morio Sase and centered on the Tsukiji Gindaco takoyaki chain with more than 800 stores.
Hotmart
Hotmart is a marketplace for digital products founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2011 by João Pedro Resende and Mateus Bicalho, now headquartered in Amsterdam.
HotSpot Therapeutics
HotSpot Therapeutics is a private Boston biotechnology company, founded in 2017, that uses machine learning to find allosteric "regulatory hotspots" on proteins and develop oral small-molecule drugs against them.
Hou Jun Cheng
Hou Jun Cheng (侯军呈), born in 1964 in Wenzhou, is a Chinese cosmetics entrepreneur who founded and chairs Proya, China's largest domestic beauty company by revenue.
Hou Weigui
Hou Weigui (侯为贵) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded ZTE, the Shenzhen telecom equipment maker, in 1985 and led it as president and then chairman until retiring in 2016.
Hou Yi
Hou Yi (侯毅) is a Chinese retail entrepreneur who founded the Freshippo fresh-food supermarket chain inside Alibaba in 2015 and led it as chief executive until retiring in 2024.
Houghton family
The Houghton family is an American business dynasty whose glassmaking business became Corning Incorporated, with five generations managing it from 1851 through the mid-2000s and two Houghtons serving in Congress.
House of Abhinandan Lodha
House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL) is a Mumbai-based Indian real estate company founded by Abhinandan Lodha that buys land and sells branded plots to individuals entirely online.
House of Habib
House of Habib is a family-owned Pakistani conglomerate based in Karachi, tracing to a trading company founded in 1841, whose companies include Indus Motor Company, the Toyota joint venture.
House of Medici
The House of Medici, or Medici family, was a Florentine banking and political dynasty whose bank, founded in 1397, was the largest of its time.
Household economics
Household economics applies price theory to decisions inside households, such as time allocation and unpaid production; its modern form is the New Home Economics of Becker and Mincer.
Household finance
Household finance is the branch of economics that studies how households use financial instruments and markets to attain their objectives, defined by analogy with corporate finance.
Household production
Household production is the unpaid production of goods and services within households for their own consumption, such as cooking, cleaning, and caregiving; it lies outside GDP and is measured through satellite accounts.
Housing construction in the Soviet Union
Housing construction in the Soviet Union, also called housing construction in the USSR, was a state-directed program of mass apartment building that moved over a third of the population into new homes between 1956 and 1965.
Housing crisis in the United States
The housing crisis in the United States is a sustained shortage and affordability failure in which prices, rents, and homelessness have risen far faster than incomes.
Housing Development Finance Corporation
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC Ltd) was an Indian housing finance company founded in 1977 by H.T. Parekh as India's first mortgage lender, merged into HDFC Bank in 2023.
Howard Buffett
Howard Buffett is an American farmer, photographer, and philanthropist, son of Warren Buffett, who became nonexecutive Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in 2026 and runs the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Howard Deering Johnson
Howard Deering Johnson (1897–1972) was an American entrepreneur who founded Howard Johnson's, building it from a 1925 soda fountain in Wollaston, Massachusetts into a coast-to-coast restaurant and motor lodge chain through franchising.
Howard Graham Buffett
Howard Graham Buffett, known as Howard G. Buffett, is an American farmer, photographer, and philanthropist who chairs the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and is the son of Warren Buffett.
Howard Hartenbaum
Howard Hartenbaum is a venture capitalist and General Partner at August Capital, a Silicon Valley firm he joined in 2008, and was the founding investor in Skype.