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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is acting as a formal mechanism to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
Partners, Coleman serves on the Los Angeles World Affairs Council board of directors, and the advisory boards of Stanford University’s Council of the Humanities and Sciences and its Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She also serves... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
across the University who are at various stages of developing or launching businesses. During biweekly discussions at the Harvard Innovation Lab, topics run the gamut from attracting angel investors, to recruiting a team without funds, to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
Behavior, taught by Professor Tom DeLong, left a lasting impression. Leadership Pipeline Returning to Capital Group in Los Angeles after HBS, Diamond spent 11 years as senior vice president of Capital Group Private Client Services, where... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
tools and adapting them to their own contexts. We're really transforming their thinking." Feedback from PELP participants supports that assessment. For istance, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest district in the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
Angeles to her native St. Louis. Granted Sunday visitation rights, his father only made the 1,800-mile trip twice. And on the second visit, his father kidnapped him, driving him back to Los Angeles. The event would shape Ed's life.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
Commencement this year. Before his arrival at HBS, Lim served the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles in a variety of functions, from chaplain at UCLA and UC Irvine, to assistant rector in an inner-city parish, to working in a grassroots... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs, an View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los Angeles Times. She is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
activity among HBS graduates and connects alumni with faculty, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. This year, Privahini Bradoo won the $25,000 cash prize for BioMine, a novel solution to the millions of tons of... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
involved with grassroots organizations in the Los Angeles area such as the Coalition for Clean Air and Heal the Bay, which is dedicated to cleaning up Santa Monica Bay. Through the Horn Foundation, which they founded in 1989, the couple... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
with an open mind.” A Cincinnati native, Schock's lilting Midwestern voice is peppered with moments of laughter as she recounts the work experiences that helped shape her communications skills. Before she enrolled at HBS, Henkel/Cognis Chemical Corporation sent Schock... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
bought and how they spent their money. From the New York Times “How We Spend Our Time” (April 24, 1937) LOS ANGELES SKYLINE, 2008: The post–World War II boom years were followed by “deceptively subtle” upheavals in the American business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the potential of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). But over time, BRT’s potential as a first-class, environmentally sound transit mode was forgotten. It was not until the late 1990s that BRT was “rediscovered” in Curitiba, Brazil, as part of the search by the City of Los View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
watches a test flight of a seed-planting drone. Aymeric Maudous holds one of the proprietary tree seed pods that are planted by drones. “Living in LA, we’re seeing the climate crisis hit home with the fires,” says Dodi, who, as a board director of the Los View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
morning known as “Super Saturday,” 63 student teams present these and other ideas in the Aldrich classrooms where other people’s ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges — a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and... View Details