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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
vanishingly small. “If the people writing the checks are more reflective of the population, the people receiving the checks will become more representative of the population.” —Hayley Barna (MBA 2010), general partner, First Round Capital Today Barna sits on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
"little-noticed commodities to hot products" due to their ability to sprout disease-resistant crops with higher nutritional values. The next step? "Agriceuticals," or crops that have been engineered to have higher medicinal value. An "apple a day," in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether different? And what makes some mergers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
licensed, and private schools, SABIS grosses around $50 million annually. "We focus on math and English, which are gateways to other subjects, and on 'soft skills' that enable students to reengineer their... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
where you’re aiming. That sort of fearlessness and ambition carried David through.” Another lesson occurred further into the company’s history. On the Friday before Christmas in 1990, van Bever and three other top-level managers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Alumni Books Sex and the Siren: Tales of a Later Dater by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37, 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) A witty, satirical look at the dating prospects, sexual exploits, and other adventures of a mature single woman in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Others have raised concerns about investing too much power in the hands of the Fed. Pozen advised the Senate committee to tap the Federal Reserve as the super regulator but to delegate enforcement to the appropriate existing federal... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
have made an important contribution to both the democratization and the strengthening of the American economy," says HBS professor Jay O. Light, an expert on the financial services industry. And now, according to Light and other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
speaks passionately about his faith, the rights of others to their own beliefs, and the damage done by extremists: “It’s a clash of ignorance, that people don’t understand what Christianity or Judaism or the Muslim faith stands for,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
industries, such as organic agriculture, grew up to serve these and other demands. And individual business leaders, experimenting with forms of social entrepreneurship, developed product offerings and built firms that were intended to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
good student and a reasonably good athlete, but when I went to Yonkers orphanage, I decided my ticket out of this situation was private college. How do you get to private colleges? Good grades and athletics.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
in dramatically new ways." McKenney's additional research interests, focusing on managing the implementation and growth of intelligent terminal communications systems, knowledge-based systems, and the design and management of private... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit exposed the tech world’s toxic culture and its homogeneity. Though she lost her suit, Pao revolutionized the conversation at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or... View Details