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- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
world and a smart investment. “Women and diverse-led companies are highly profitable, yet undercapitalized,” she says. “A perfect arbitrage investment scenario.” Among the seven companies in the WOCstar portfolio are Zero, a plastic-free, direct-to-consumer online... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Agri-Food Entrepreneurs. We are currently supporting entrepreneurs in 34 African countries to scale their businesses. Changing narratives and driving transformation is a complex process. However, I am most inspired by the young African entrepreneurs who are leveraging... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
space,” Emanuel said. An effort to make Chicago the capital of cybersecurity that involved a city-funded training program, for example, ultimately led to KPMG making Chicago its cybersecurity headquarters—a move that has created 500 new jobs, with 500 more to come by... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
responsibility to do something in this sector,” says Chen. “Impact investing is still in the very early stages in China and lacks human capital, government support, and high-quality investees. There is a clear need to build a platform for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
and Beasts and Heroes, a battlefield strategy game—and a technology platform that Norwood hopes will unite the fragmented gaming world. On that platform, she says, players would navigate every game using the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
who plays classical piano and jazz guitar, and Pemberton, a drummer, thought they could offer musicians an online platform that would help them connect with fans in a meaningful if virtual way. The founders soon discovered a much larger... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
club notes, has touched the lives of more than half a million people in India and has also exported medicines to many other hard-hit countries in Asia and Africa. Dr. Natarajan founded the Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR), which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical, View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising product quality. At the same time,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
consequences over the next 10 or 20 years. We keep that long-term impact in mind as we explore new technology investments for our network." They both note a shift taking place as more nontraditional hires, like themselves, replace... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
their discussion by confirming the following central assumption: in order for clubs to remain viable, they will need to streamline their "back office" procedures, utilize technology to enhance their operations, and find ways to attract... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
talent to the funding you provide for key initiatives. We were able to move quickly and effectively in response to the pandemic because of the generosity of alumni whose gifts to the HBS Fund enabled the considerable investment in View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
employers for a mass exodus of employees in a post-pandemic world. The company predicts that 50 percent of organizations’ newly hired workers in 2020 will return to former positions when furloughs end. Syrg’s platform will help employers... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
this or this,” she says, flipping between the two orientations. The technology to make this happen seamlessly is one that they’ve patented and among a half-dozen tech-based innovations they’re hoping will transform mobile storytelling. At... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
technology offered two advantages. First, the company had been focused on creating not a single drug, but a platform for analyzing proteins and producing synthetic mRNA. That same process could be used to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
date—maybe 2002? Before its first funding round, in any case. I told Reed Hastings that everyone would be streaming video in a year or two, so why set up this huge infrastructure around DVDs? He said, “They’re not ready for streaming yet. We will be ready when the... View Details