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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
challenge negative stereotypes about female ambition, and urge women to be bold, follow their dreams, and seize the chance to lead “big” lives. The secret is to focus on career first, job second. Instead of chasing a better job title or a... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
in banking while being a top analyst, being pregnant, and applying to business school! I was the youngest woman to ever have a child in banking at age 24. I learned a lot about my own aspirations and what kind of mother and citizen I want to be. Summer Internship:... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF). The fund focuses on early-stage female entrepreneurs in digital media and eco-friendly businesses, two areas that the WVCF believes are “poised for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
to our office,” she explains. As a student at HBS, Khan decided to figure out a way to help female entrepreneurs access venture capital. In the summer of 2015, with support from the Rock Summer Fellows... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
Videolicious (a platform for making high-end video) respectively. Despite their success, the pair couldn’t help wondering what it was like to be a female entrepreneur without HBS connections. In 2016 they... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
Seeing obstacles women face, particularly in Middle Eastern countries, is what drove Isik Kececi Asur and her husband, Mustafa, to endow an MBA fellowship designated for female entrepreneurs from Turkey and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic between male investors and female entrepreneurs seeking their funding. Looking to the crowd liberates companies from having to navigate an... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
in new HBS cases and videos over the last five years. The targeted effort to boost the number of female executives featured in cases and discussed in classrooms at HBS and beyond was launched by the School in 1997. Leadership support for... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
how does the founder of a social venture decide to create a hybrid rather than a traditional charity? New research suggests the decision has a lot to do with the founder’s gender. "in communities where female leadership of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
female founders are married or partnered at rates similar to the overall alumni population. The proportion of female tech founders with children under 18 at home (55%) is slightly higher than that of male... View Details
Paris Wallace
Paris Wallace (He/Him) is the CEO & Founder of NCL (Hiring). EIR @ Harvard Business School. Investor. DEI Crusader. Cyclist. Ovia Health (Acquired: LH). Good Start Genetics (Acquired: NVTA) Paris is the founder and CEO of the NCL the first majority-minority and View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Hart also serves as faculty director of the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 initiative at HBS that was created to encourage the inclusion of more female protagonists in business cases. She is faculty coordinator of the Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader Episode #5 of Climate Stories is a little different. It describes the innovative solar technology of Heliogen, a renewable energy company. But it is also an interview with a remarkable View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
and out of the tech sector. She was cofounder of MTV Europe; CEO in charge of launching AOL's Entertainment Asylum; and entrepreneur-in-residence for Softbank Technology Ventures. Being a female entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
potential investment opportunities as other female-led companies seek them out. Though they don’t have a gender mandate, the company’s leaders know that being the first in their space means they have a responsibility: “We really try to nourish networks within the View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
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Entrepreneurship | MBA
# 1 program for Companies Founded, Capital Raised, Female Founders, and Number of Founders 50 % of alumni create at least one venture in a quest to change the world 14 % of the Class of 2024 started their own business directly after... View Details