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- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
proceeds go toward the club’s high-impact programs, including pro-bono consulting through Community Partners, workforce development through the Skills Gap Initiative, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a school. Peering View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
hints, forecasts, and opportunities for the decade ahead. Navigating India $18 Trillion Opportunity by Bharat Joshi (OPM 47, 2015) Rupa Publications This book is an account of the possibilities that define India amidst magnificent paradoxes. It provides a guide View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
as pursuits like marketing or law. RELATED HBSP Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures Immigration is such a hot-button topic in politics. Do you hold out any hope that your research can provide a more balanced perspective? I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS Selected from more than 90 worldwide entries, 12 winning regional teams will travel back to campus on April 25 to compete in the the 2nd annual Alumni New Venture Contest finals. The contest, hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Tim Draper (MBA 1984) tells 30 students assembled poolside at Draper University, a seven-week entrepreneurship boot camp targeting 18- to 28-year-olds that he launched in 2012 after purchasing and renovating the vintage 1926 Benjamin... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Crown Maple, the flourishing maple sugaring business the Turners started in 2010 has helped them achieve both goals. Known for its distinctively rich flavor—achieved, in part, through sustainable, certified-organic harvesting practices... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “water is the medium through which climate change is really going to be experienced,” Ferguson says. “Our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
cleaning to landscaping, and through acquisitions in four states, Lambert became well known in the industry. In 1995, she was the first woman to serve as president of an international association of building... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Wynton Marsalis, Entrepreneur
erudition and humor in discussing famous entrepreneurs in music, from Richard Wagner to Duke Ellington, and his own entrepreneurial experiences as an aspiring musician and currently as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz, Marsalis said, is “harmony View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
managing 7,000 people, and it was a crisis all the time. There were many hard decisions to make every day, but boy, I learned a ton.” GE has seen significant change since Immelt’s tenure began, with acquisitions in energy, aviation, water... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
pandemic to a pretty healthy level today. As long as the economy stays strong, it’s going to drive a lot of Hispanic employment,” Perez says. Source: National report on early-stage entrepreneurship in the United States: 2020, Kauffman... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
Hall, the campus home to the doctoral programs, will be rededicated as Wyss House, and doctoral candidates receiving support will be known as Wyss Fellows. “The doctoral programs at Harvard Business School have a tremendous influence, not only View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good business sense. I get excited by the journey that executives go... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
fixed through better coding or inputs. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain,” she observes. At HBS, Polli says she witnessed a recruiting process that was rife with bias and bad data. Employers screened job seekers... View Details
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
One, we have taken an approach where we have to earn the trust of our customers continually,” adds Gilbert. “We got to know our first 500 customers by name. We knew the names of their children. We knew exactly what it was that they were looking for from Dia & Co. And I... View Details