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- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Index Rules and Analyst Fatigue
- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
Here at the Pickleball Club, founder and CEO Brian McCarthy (MBA 1972) is making a big bet that his model—a private club, with high-end amenities and a community organized around the sport—will have what it takes to stay in the game for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
disrupting the tech world’s status quo. A Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has been pioneering new technology for more than two decades, Lambert recently accepted the challenge of running a company herself, becoming founder and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
that. It’s just something that really excites me deeply,” says Nadkarni. Nadkarni sits on the board of TiE Seattle and chairs two educational initiatives he established to expand the organization’s efforts beyond networking. The TiE Entrepreneur Institute runs each... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
negotiations, be good with people, sweat the details, and work horrendous hours." An intercollegiate golfer and hockey player at Yale, Norton had never heard of sports marketing until IMG founder and president Mark McCormack spoke one day... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
understaffed. Mirza estimates it could take more than a decade to rebuild a skilled talent pool. Mogul Recruiter—part of Mogul Hospitality, of which Mirza is founder and CEO—is an HR platform that uses data to evaluate employee skills and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Black Lives Matter and the promise of entrepreneurship
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
any return on their equity, right? And just to put a finer point on that, investors who invest in the company receive preferred shares. So that means they get paid out first. Employees, founders have common shares. So they sit at the back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
top Gerald W. Schwartz (MBA 1970) Founder and Chairman, Onex Corporation In the blood: “My father was a through-and-through entrepreneur. He had everything from a salvage yard to a machine shop to a retail auto-parts store in Winnipeg,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
But tech will never tell the whole story of one’s family history, says Mike Feerick (MBA 1993), founder of the nonprofit Ireland Reaching Out. As founder and CEO of Alison, an e-learning company, Feerick... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
for a product-oriented cofounder. And as a solo founder at the time, she was facing the realities of how difficult it is to start something alone. So when she did her search, she's really good about not cold calling, and she found we had... View Details
- 16 Apr 2024
- News
Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin (MBA 1999) Era
head of film at Netflix, which details the challenges and opportunities ahead for him at the streaming giant. Lin is a longtime producer (notably of The Lego Movie and Sherlock Holmes) and founder of Rideback, the production company he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Estimates suggest a shortfall of about 4 million health care workers worldwide, but the World Health Organization predicts that figure will stretch to 10 million by 2030. Those industry trends are among the factors that drive Lorin Gresser (MBA 1998), View Details
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
confusion in how the founders relate their story, or an overreliance on fundraising. “We started to see some patterns,” Sherman notes. That year, the pair jointly invested in three companies, about one percent of those they had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups
Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
to act. "Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership," he asserts. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has said that one of the key elements of being a good... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details