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Avi Kremer
He can no longer walk, talk, or swallow, but Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) won’t let that slow down his pursuit of a cure for ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As founder of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Trust your instincts 98 percent, your observations 50 percent, and your conclusions 25 percent.” —Zynga founder & CEO Mark Pincus (MBA 1993), discussing the entrepreneur’s need to balance data analysis and observation when evaluating... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Legacy
Sunil B. Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) is founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, he talks about the role of innovation and reinvention to keep a business moving... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
former state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria and founder at PPB Advisory, started SecondBite 10 years ago, reusing food had just become legalized. Today, the nonprofit has 800 volunteers serving 200 agencies in even the most... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
grade-level math proficiency.” As a longtime school volunteer with at-risk students and founder of an innovative high school entrepreneurship curriculum in Rhode Island, Daugherty was struck by how often “smart, resourceful students can’t... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
founder and CEO of a Virginia technology company, snapped it up through his Stafford Foundation. “We’ve gotten away from the core values that made America great,” Stafford told the Washington Post (December 4, 2008). “We just need to get... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) believes the early years are a critical time to correct income disparity. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more expensive to intervene later,” says Dias Griffin, founder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
Professors Emeriti Kenneth R. Andrews and Thomas J.C. Raymond, two distinguished and much-loved faculty members, both passed away in September. Andrews, who served on the HBS faculty from 1946 to 1986, was a founder of the field of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.” —Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92), founder and CEO of Year Up, a nonprofit providing urban young adults with technical and professional skills... View Details
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- 26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Science and Drones to Replant Our Planet,” Aymeric Maudous and Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) shared the science behind their startup, Lord of the Trees, a precision drone tree-planting company focused on global high-speed reforestation. Maudous is the View Details
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Michael Kaplan
Michael Kaplan is founder of MKaps LLC, and an investor, entrepreneur and multi company founder. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Fashion to Figure, a leading plus-size fashion company for women sizes 12-26. Kaplan graduated... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
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Climate Stories
Actionable Climate Literacy Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), View Details
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Impact & Testimonials | Information Technology
innovation and scale of the effort to create a personalized experience where you have dedicated screens and microphones...Rather than feeling that you're wasting time in front of a screen, you feel immersed in it. Roop Bhadury ; Founder &... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society
company is having in India, for example, embodies founder Henry Ford’s mantra that it is “in Ford’s DNA to give back to communities.” Said Fields, “Only a profitable business can be of service to society, both from an economic development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
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A Category Leader
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
“Harvard gives you powerful tools for getting things done in the world,” observes Eric-Vincent Guichard (MBA 1990). “Over time, you more fully appreciate the responsibility that goes with that education.” Guichard, who grew up in rural Guinea, is View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
Chen Weiming (MBA 1993) is reimagining the way China views education. As founder of Xing Wei College, a first-of-its-kind, privately run institution outside of Shanghai, Chen is at the forefront of a radical transformation of China’s... View Details
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Lauren Murphy
Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate,... View Details
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