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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
And I've always grown up with the strong guiding principle that to whom much is given, much is expected. So specifically with Suguba, what we want to do is to develop strong entrepreneurial ecosystems across francophone Africa through the setup of View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
also not an ideal situation for athletes, who feed off of a crowd’s energy. But for the sports leagues and the related startups that can survive this transition period—and not all of them will—it could provide an opportunity to assess and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
you with a stinging rebuke. When informed that his demand for a 30 percent annual return was unrealistic, despite assurances to the contrary from his bank’s investment adviser, the retiree groused: “If you guys from Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
build my own company.” So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would become EyeView. “It didn’t feel like I was taking as much of a risk because I was still a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
investments from other Boston companies, including an institutional seed round led by [venture firm] Accomplice. With all the capital, we want to perfect the online gifting experience. Our goal is to redefine expectations for what can fit... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
authentic interests might be. Flint: It sounds like there’s a return on investment here for the college education that could be taken into account in this decision. Falik: I think that the most compelling reason that every young person... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
background helps bring Lerner’s view into focus. Politicians love to talk about how small businesses are the jobs engine of the economy. So passing a bill with small business loan guarantees and tax write-offs for equipment investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Wiley) Seides provides critical lessons and insights for those trying to decipher the industry and those seeking to invest in the next generation of high performers. He focuses on the common travails of View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
with the feisty Radcliffe history and literature major, overheard the exchange and popped his head in on the meeting. "Give this woman what she wants!" he exclaimed enthusiastically. O'Donnell knew that indulging Lang's independent spirit was a good View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
organization to go beyond "very good" and attain and sustain excellence. In his latest book, he shares his hard-won insights and reveals what it takes to be best in class in any industry. Tech and the City: The Making of New York's View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
And they're, in our minds and in other people's minds as well, very good investors, specifically when it comes to science-based companies. And so really this was, to my mind, kind of the be all and end all. I just really admired a lot of the companies they View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
EBS Property Investments in Atlanta. “There was no money for it, there was no vision. So it was really, truly a startup operation, which Jim is very good at directing. He has the tenacity and doesn’t mind... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
want things to be done right, but we don’t want to invest a lot of thought and process in finding a solution.” Online reviews are nothing new, of course. But Angie’s List was early to the game and operates under an almost unthinkable... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that most View Details
Keywords: Susan Young