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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
that have shaped the world of business scholarship, education, and practice, said Nohria. The School’s distinguished faculty can lay claim to introducing the concepts of business strategy, the balanced... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
student clubs, Akinola cochaired this year’s Africa Business Conference, which brought more than five hundred people to campus to discuss entrepreneurial ventures in Africa. She is also writing a case study... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Gillette prior to attending HBS, and is known for bringing a business-centric focus to the conservation movement. He credits a taste for entrepreneurship developed in b-school and a bit of luck for his change in career paths. In the late 1980s, he was collaborating on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving economic growth and job creation
"Our focus was first on stabilizing the economy for small business, and then on creating an ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to do what they do best—grow and create jobs," said Mills, a long-time View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Social Enterprise Pioneer
HBS professor Kash Rangan talks about a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists who are experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises. And they are insisting that these enterprises operate with greater transparency... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
runner-up status in the 2013 Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition at HBS. “I didn’t expect to be a social entrepreneur when I came to HBS, but our team viewed the problem as a ticking time bomb,” says Rewane. “We started... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
by the 1980s, that number had fallen to 18, and by 2015, it was just four. “Vaccines went out of fashion,” says HBS professor Gary Pisano, who studies the intersection of business and science. “There was a sense among investors that they... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
while witnessing the end of the studio system, the development of indepen-dent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywood’s most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000: Running a View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
hardly any learning curve,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It was a good fit.” The investment business changed during his tenure at Lehman, and in 1976 he left and moved to Boston to launch Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
groups that don’t fit the VC mold. There is no magic set of experiences that makes you a great venture capitalist. I filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins because I had tried everything else. It seemed like a lawsuit... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
a surge of staff interest in this area. To respond, Bain has undertaken several initiatives, each with a strong Internet component. For example, last year we launched "bainlab," a global consulting team dedicated to incubating and accelerating Internet businesses. We... View Details