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- 30 Mar 2015
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Reconnecting Californians with their history
As foundation director of LaSeñora Research Institute, Patricia Nettleship (AMP 86, 1981) helps preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Rancho Era of early California through research and education programs. (Published March 2015) View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
they worked with me for two months to help write my business plan.” Pao picked up additional investors through meetings and luncheons organized by Bender: “By December 2011 I had raised half the money I needed from family and friends,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest
The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
had as an undergrad, going through what you call the rite of passage, end up becoming a business that you built at HBS? How did that insight lead into you founding BoldVoice? Anada Lakra: There were two kinds of paths which led me to it.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to offer Neutrall’s products there... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
Through Jana Care, a start-up he cofounded in Bangalore, India, Sidhant Jena (SPH 2011, MBA 2011) is building affordable diagnostics and evidence-based lifestyle coaching programs on mobile phones to make diabetes management cheaper,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
especially, because that's where I worked––in trying to encourage more women in every field I've been in, and all of my volunteer work, and whatever. And especially women leaders. “What I say to young women embarking on their careers, which I think is also going to be... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
through social impact bonds. “Social impact bonds enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive action, to establish a track record of social performance and to be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
memorable mix of business education and cultural recreation, a J-Term 2014 trip offered even deeper perspectives. Through the Japan IXP (Immersion Experience Program), she explored entrepreneurship within a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Steve Schwarzman. Private-equity firms have been on an acquisitions binge of late, and leading the pack is The Blackstone Group, headed by CEO Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72). He talks about the buyout business and where it is headed.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
current state of affairs. But that’s not the only reason technology had not yet tackled this pain point, Wang notes. Entrepreneurship often grows out of a founder’s own experiences. “For people who have not personally experienced this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS elective courses in View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Personal crises inform a life’s work
director from 1990 through its closure in 2004, and an internationally recognized advocate. “Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding and gave patients and survivors a permanent voice in medical... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Facing a choice and taking a chance to lead
Mary Falvey (MBA 1967), president of Falvey Associates, talks about helping companies grow through times of change. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
expand their impact by helping them devise a marketing strategy and securing pro-bono PR services through our networks.” By working with MESO, Lin says Community Partners is able to support their mission to serve 500 entrepreneurs. “They... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
wonder of the open seas. “Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. A competitive sailor who raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their businesses for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
and executive I am today.” His success there also positioned him well to pursue his dream of helping to transform postsecondary education in Africa. With the acquisition of two Cavendish Universities (Uganda, Zambia) and a significant... View Details