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- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
also an early backer of Noom and Impossible Foods, among others. Upon learning that just two percent of funding goes to female founders, William’s made a strategic commitment to diversity and inclusion; today, 78 percent of founders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
issue as the founder and CEO of the executive search firm Trewstar, which places experienced and accomplished women on corporate boards. She offers her advice here. What tips do you have for senior female... View Details
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
MS/MBA Engineering Program empowered you as a woman in the startup space? Women account for just 13% of startup founders, and technical women founders are less than a fifth of... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Miwa Seki (left) and Yumiko Murakami Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui shared the same birthday month and year, so they started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic: The View Details
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Harvard Business School
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details
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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
technologies like AI. Some of this stems from systemic challenges like lower reimbursement rates or outdated stigma, but it’s also a pipeline issue. While women dominate the workforce in women’s health as clinicians, operators, and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the foundations of these communities.” The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Akuete, CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and founder of HBS’s Startup Bootcamp. Kerr is unit head of Entrepreneurial Management and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures Program in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail consultant and a cofounder of a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
conference will feature management seminars and panel discussions on information technology, the nonprofit sector, prominent African-American women business leaders, venture capital, and the music industry, as well as a "town meeting," an... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
hardware and software solutions. Ferguson has been in the water sector for more than a decade, including five years as the vice president of programming at Imagine H2O, an accelerator for water startups. In that role, he saw a growing interest in the water sector on... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
Now that jobs for electricians, plumbers and carpenters are expanding into green job specialties like HVAC retrofitting, Sam has been pleased to see how helpful and friendly the trade unions have been and how willing to include women and... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- Blog Post
Taking Measure on Memorial Day
Academy and commissioning as an engineer officer in the US Army, I joined the founders of Steel Hearts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to honoring the fallen cadets, midshipmen, and graduates of America’s service academies... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
to better connections rather than superior skill. Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the gender wage gap,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native Oregon for family reasons in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken