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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm: Boston-based American Research and... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
more than $350 million—where she focused on health care technology investments. She was general partner, serving on many private, public, and nonprofit boards, while also raising two boys, now 13 and 15. But after 20 years in the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was created. Passionate about his new... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
micro-entrepreneurship. Framed within the context of entrepreneurship and a historical overview of the long-term sustainability of this business model, this book is intended for practitioners who want to better understand the breadth and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
months, totally immersed in a humanitarian project in someplace like Africa or India, it engages you in ways that are difficult to replicate when you come back to a corporate context. That can make reentry pretty challenging for everyone... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
social change campaigns to the rest, Crutchfield reveals powerful lessons for change-makers who seek to affect society and the planet for the better. Corporate Diversification: Opportunities Created by the Winds of Change by Brooks Fenno... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
happen to move money. Technology is core to what they do, and it has been core to what they do forever.” (photo by Chris Sorensen) New York even had parts of the proper ecosystem already in place. As HBS professor Josh Lerner, an authority on View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
organizations and communities they join. “What we do here has a deep and broad impact on society as a whole. The School really is a pioneer. Just look at our current research in entrepreneurship and social enterprise, and our new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
with distinction in 1965. Following nine years working for large multinational corporations, Wyss struck out on his own as an entrepreneur and established Synthes USA. He has taken on leadership roles in both this country and Switzerland and grown Synthes into a major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office space, operational support, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
debut on the public capital markets. It also has developed the corporate strategy for the country's Urban Development Authority; enabled a $400 million investment in transforming the education sector of the country; and formulated... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter. A Saturday morning panel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
three-dozen breakout sessions that focused on globalization, market capitalism, and leadership topics. Failures of Corporate and Political Leadership The flip side of government intervention is government paralysis, the topic that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
next decade. As chairman of one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, household, and personal-care products, Burgmans addressed issues of corporate governance. If transparency is good for multinationals, why isn’t the same thinking... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
like investing in sustainability or anything that is an impact fund. So a corporation B, where it’s not just about return on investment, but it’s also about having an impact in our environment, in our community. There’s so much data out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn’t the case. Entrepreneurship is... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
qualities that define a leader? Where does one find a mentor? What are the ingredients in the recipe for success? Getting beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works by Roger L. Martin (MBA 1981) and Sally R. Osberg (Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details