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Connell House | About
Partners. The Connells’ legacy of support for HBS has had a profound impact at the School and in the world at large. Work supported by the gift has led to the Leadership Initiative’s cutting-edge research and course development, including the 2011 View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Francophone Africa By: Paul A. Gompers , Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the company has advised parents on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
launching and running their business,” Bussgang says. “I would bet their customers—major retailers who are counting on Syrup’s platform for mission-critical business processes—would be surprised to learn that James and Ferdinand were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
their research within the first four years of its launch than those in the bottom 25 percent. What’s more, the papers they produced were also higher quality—3.8 times more likely to appear in the top 10 percent of papers cited by their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Peggy Mativo-Ochola
returned to Nairobi, Kenya where she founded and launched Pacemaker International, an educational nonprofit similar to Teach for America. "Kenya is short about 70,000 teachers," says Peggy. "The people most affected by the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
prospective investors if they decide to launch another new venture. In many parts of the world, failed founders are stigmatized, but fortunately, in Silicon Valley and some other startup ecosystems, investors are more forgiving. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
requisite startup hiccups. “We had no experience in the clothing industry, which is probably what gave us the hubris to try it at all,” says Sard. Their first run of size-small shirts fit like a large. When shirts didn’t arrive in time for Tombolo’s soft View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
South Africa; and M-PESA, an initiative launched by the mobile network operator Safaricom (in conjunction with Vodafone) to offer a new type of financial service to the poor residents of Kenya. Ultimately, the more successful of the two,... View Details
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
For example, the United States launched the Adams Power Station at Niagara Falls in 1895, only a few years after the invention of a three-phase power system. India, meanwhile, didn't adopt electricity until the 1900s. But when it comes to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Competition, cohosted by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Alumni Relations, serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors, and advisors. The... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
the fall of such companies as DEC, Kodak, Nokia, Wang, and more recently Sears. "People often forget that when Apple launched the iPhone it was already a $24 billion corporation. " I am a huge fan of Schumpeter and I’ve been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
The collaborative, big-picture approach behind Lotus also comes through in Enan’s investment style. “Amal doesn’t look at an opportunity as just 1 + 1 = 2,” says Ahmad Hammouda, cofounder and CEO of Thndr, a Y Combinator–backed investment platform View Details
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Robert Higgins | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Foundation, and the John A. Hartford Foundation. During those years, he developed an interest in healthcare. Eventually, he thought venture capital might be a more effective way to build healthcare businesses so he joined Charles River Ventures before View Details
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Investor - Entrepreneurship
(TEM) SUMMER Intern with a VC firm and serve as a Rock Summer Fellow. FALL Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital and Private Equity Private Equity Finance Financial Management of Small Firms Launching Technology... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
Setting up a home-base-augmenting site—one designed to gather new knowledge for a company—involves certain skills. And launching a home-base-exploiting site—one established to help a company efficiently commercialize its R&D in... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
people have been working from home for a few weeks, leaders need to hold a “working from home” relaunch to help their teams learn to reorient based on the new realities. While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details