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- 14 May 2015
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Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
Rock Center for Entrepreneurship or lead sessions at the Harvard iLab. Most recently I led one about determining the right monetization paths for one’s business. What has surprised you the most about the role? I have been surprised by the... View Details
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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
designed to serve as the visual and intellectual focal point of the campus. The Library’s bell tower and gilded cupola echoed the tower on Eliot House across the river, and a grand portico led to an elegant first-floor entranceway. The... View Details
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Tools | New Venture Competition
enterprise business plan and approaches on how to build your venture. Developing a Social Enterprise Business Plan with Allen Grossman Excited about launching a social venture but not quite sure how to tackle writing a social impact business plan? This workshop, View Details
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
uncertain: a down market has led firms to curtail hiring and lower the threshold for termination, developments in AI raise questions about the fundamental value of the individual consultant. Bright students who could once rely on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
business and sparked his interest in leveraging it to address social issues, which ultimately led him to HBS. Mbanusi, who now works for Guild Education, a tech platform that helps employers reskill their employees debt-free, found in his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
a difference.” Hudson joined the organization as CEO in 2019. Now, “everybody knows Uncle Billy here at Chapman Partnership,” she says. Hudson has brought both her personal understanding of the plight of homelessness and her business knowledge to the organization.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
preparation with the unique perspective that comes from on-the-ground observations and interactions. The students spent two weeks in China, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka in January. Led by Meg Rithmire, the F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and... View Details
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
family, however, the detective realizes that she, too, is suspect. Written by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), the film was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) and boasts a star-studded cast led by Glenn Close, Gillian... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
relationship between manufacturer and retailer, Chun shows how certain promotional practices deserve to be rethought. Conventional wisdom and past research, for instance, have led some to conclude that retailer stockpiling resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
while others turned them in the direction of travel. The discovery of such unspoken preferences among consumers led the company to make important changes in the development of its navigational system. The authors conclude by urging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
an antitrust case against seventeen investment banking firms in New York City, an effort that led him to do an exhaustive study of the securities industry. In 1984, Fox received the Harvard Business School's Distinguished Service Award,... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Personal Touch
Class of 1984 and beyond. Alex Timken (MBA ’96) Alex Timken has led all three Class of 1996 Reunion Campaigns, including its recently completed 15th Reunion record-breaker. That campaign raised more than $3 million, with Timken’s Section... View Details
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Christina Melas-Kyriazi
Christina joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2021, where she focuses on early-stage investments in fintech and commerce. Christina was previously Head of Product for Consumer Foundations at Affirm, where she led a team of product managers... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
tremendously inspirational -- to have models of success in innovating curricula," Herzlinger says. Additionally, HBS professors Richard Hamermesh and Robert Higgins led a session on the role of venture capital in the curriculum, along... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
bringing it back to profitability in 100 days. His next stop was Burger King, where he helped relaunch the brand and turnaround same store sales. Lopdrup first joined Red Lobster as president in 2004, and led a company that was facing... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
entrepreneurial spirit from my mother.” Amadio became interested in medicine as a boy. He felt a calling to help other people and it led him to pursue a mix of science and computer classes and activities. When he was a teenager, his... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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Capitalism: Past, Present, Future - Course Catalog
of young Americans view capitalism positively, and calls for alternatives are becoming ever more frequent. Why? And why have different forms of capitalism led to such unequal outcomes around the world? What is capitalism, really; what has... View Details