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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
founded by Omolara Fatiregun (EDLD 2022), offers equity audits, equity-centered budgets, and training on proven, poverty-fighting programs. Thrive! has been shortlisted by the Norrsken Impact Accelerator in Stockholm, Sweden for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
innovation is accelerating rapidly, and means big changes and challenges for the sector. We are seeing rapid changes both in traditional retailers and in startups. The largest traditional retailers are investing heavily in their online... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
Heather Staker (MBA 2001) is president of Ready to Blend, a firm that works with K-12 teachers to combine educational technology solutions with classroom instruction to accelerate children’s ability to learn and achieve. In this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
would help create multiple startups at the same time?" That's the idea behind MassChallenge, the startup accelerator and competition—now the world's largest—that Nigam cofounded in 2009 after leaving his job as a Bain consultant. Based in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
picture to offer the city’s big banks a proposal: With their support, the Fund and Accenture would establish an accelerator for fintech startups that would allow financial services institutions to shop locally for innovative tech, rather... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM and other Western companies can... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
gearing up to open its second center in Latin America over the summer. But Ryan, a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, was well prepared for the School's accelerating interest in international... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
coming out of labs over the next 10 years will surpass anything we’ve experienced in the past,” says HBS senior fellow Richard Hamermesh, who co-chairs the accelerator with Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985). “Looking ahead, we expect to have the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
potential workers—such as veterans, caregivers, immigrants, and individuals with mental or physical health issues—who might otherwise be overlooked. How AI Accelerated a COVID-19 Vaccine Karim Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
“hoping” that consumer and small-business debt will accelerate GDP growth (like Brazil did at the beginning of the century). Will this new measure take the Chinese consumer beyond tolerable levels of debt-to-income ratio? —Robert... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Within a week of launching a 90-day free trial, subscriptions grew by 3600%. In addition, the company accelerated the release of a new product, originally designed for classroom instructors and now geared to administrators. The recently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on the University's 2007 Biomedical View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
covers an impressive amount of territory, for the energetic Juliber, it's only a start. "One of the main challenges for a global company is how to accelerate the transfer of experience and information from one part of the world to... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
said, "As you look at some of the challenges that confront us as a society, one of those is the accelerated pace at which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
soon- to-be MBA — entrepreneur intends to make a difference with his business education. “In 20 to 30 years, I hope to have created a venture where people have meaningful work making a product that helps solve global problems,” says the ambitious Friedlander. View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
noting that GE has research centers in Munich, Shanghai, and Bangalore, in addition to its U.S. location in Niskayuna, New York. “That’s only going to accelerate over time.” The breakthroughs occurring in those research centers are easy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
destroy the radar installations that were the eyes of Iraq's armed forces. Engines roaring on the carrier's pitching and rolling deck, Baldwin's plane was hurled day and night into the sky by one of two steam-powered catapults. The result was a rate of View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
addition to taking Austin’s Startup Operations field course, the founders were Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, and the company was part of the Rock Accelerator program. The Equity Network was also a semifinalist in the Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
accelerated shift to digital operations.” Among 11 key lessons they identified were: “Be transparent about your challenges” by keeping teams abreast of the state of the organization, priorities, and principles; and “find new ways to... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
year working on different iterations, getting feedback, and leaning on all the resources at HBS,” says Keshani. Those resources included the Rock Accelerator program, which helped the trio fund their minimum viable product (MVP) research.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley