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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
capabilities. Together, they wrote a business plan to do four independent features and set up a venture capital fund — Front Street Films — to raise the money to finance those productions. “It was the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
the most memorable. Particularly "The Fall of Enron" and the Harvard Business Review article by Charles Handy, "What's a Business For?" I got so passionate in LCA class one day that I cried while making my... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a pioneering Harvard View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve learned is how expressive and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
filming on location in Lima, Peru. In the School’s Educational Technology Services group, a team of four works with the faculty to create approximately six multimedia cases a year, including the recent “Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery Store” and “BOLT: Seed View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Looking to Rwanda’s Future
When Jonathan Goldstein (MBA 1990) first traveled to Rwanda in 2002 to talk about venture capital with President Paul Kagame’s cabinet, he was surprised to find the cabinet members “weren’t requesting immediate investments or handouts.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
priorities and the challenges to achieving them—the better your chances of having a positive impact.” Based in Zambia from 2005-11, Sheppard spearheaded a joint venture that brought together government, business, and civic leaders to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
Divided? The Economic Geography of Business (David Collis) China: Understanding a Business Environment (Regina Abrami) Israel: The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea. Now. Propped up on her elbows and staring at her laptop as ideas furiously dance in her head, she considers all possibilities. What about a monthly subscription box sent to a woman just before her period? Tampons.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
focus for future business success, with speakers emphasizing its potential to reshape workplace dynamics. “If you are not investing in AI, you are not investing,” said Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007),founder and general partner of the Graham &... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer and then start a nuclear war. A motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Last Look
Texas, and is involved in Asian joint ventures and investments, “More than thirty years later, I am still recognized not for my business ability but for the dog rescue. Oh well.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
currently teaches at Stanford Business School, and Grousbeck fils, a Boston venture capitalist, purchased the team in September for $360 million, the Boston Globe reported (September 29, 2002). Pagliuca,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Queensland State Parliament building in Brisbane in March 2002 celebrating the publication of her motivational biography Meet Me at the Top! PHOTO BY LYNDON MECHIELSEN/NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Today, Russo continues to build her business and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
friends, another venture capitalist. He wanted Motley to meet a woman who had founded the nonprofit Black Tech Nation to advocate for Black entrepreneurs. From that conversation grew Black Tech Nation Ventures, a fund the three of them... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Ejeh. Instead, he grabs his phone, pulls up the Lidya banking app, applies for the cash cushion he needs, and—a day or so later—gets the money in his account and goes about the business of expansion. Since he began borrowing with Lidya in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
April. 4 Alumni from the MBA Classes of 2002–2016 at the Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica, CA, in March. Finalists in the New Venture Competition were on the HBS campus in April to give their pitches to a panel of judges. This is the... View Details