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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
many future entrepreneurs - accidental or otherwise - in his faculty role as the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Brierley entered the DBA Program and worked as a research... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Melcher. She served as president and handled the business side of the growing school, from learning to write a budget to scouring used furniture stores for inexpensive desk chairs and finding ever-larger classroom spaces (the school moved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sea. “Having you and the responsibility of taking care of you and keeping you happy, I have no business whatsoever setting out on a venture which was quite so uncertain and risky.” IV. “I started out to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the farming aspect of the business is very capital intensive. But they’ve pursued a project financing model rather than venture financing. “Project financiers are not starry-eyed View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
who plays classical piano and jazz guitar, and Pemberton, a drummer, thought they could offer musicians an online platform that would help them connect with fans in a meaningful if virtual way. The founders soon discovered a much larger View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
and consulting opportunities for students over the summer. Those efforts netted almost 1,000 new postings. Powers was relieved to receive a summer fellowship. Rather than work for just two weeks at the consulting firm, she spent the entire summer at Continuum Lab, a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
Women’s Leadership Accelerator in San Francisco this past March, where some 250 alumnae participated in a daylong program. Topics determined by the alumnae program committee included career pivots, social impact leadership, and how women investors are disrupting View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
the university’s undergraduate curriculum requires students to work in teams to create and operate an agribusiness venture during their first three years in the program. “Our students learn the science of raising pigs and growing papayas;... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
are based on merit and—unusual among graduate business schools—financial aid is based on need. In 1910, four Visiting Committee members launched an $850 financial assistance fund. Since then, the MBA fellowship budget has grown to more... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
mother, Terry, with office furniture consisting of a few card tables, folding chairs, and Princess telephones. “I found business so much harder than I’d anticipated,” says Bradley, who started the venture... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
artifacts from longtime professor Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), considered the father of venture capitalism: the original 1957 business plan for Digital Equipment Corporation. Baker Bloomberg’s iconic cupola... View Details
Keywords: Georges F. Doriot
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
research in Hong Kong and Singapore,” she elaborates. “First of all, we found that there aren’t as many Internet executives who have been in their businesses long enough to be able to cash out. Also, mentoring is done through the more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
Photo courtesy of BollyX Photo courtesy of BollyX (click to open in new tab) BollyX cofounder Minal Mehta (MBA 2011) led members of the HBS community in a high-intensity, Bollywood-inspired cardio workout. The dance-fitness program, which won last year’s New View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business... View Details