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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign... View Details
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Tom Doyle
Financial theory suggests that debt creates value. So, I want to spend my life accumulating more debt... ...debt to friends and classmates for extending their talent to transform a slum into a thriving community ...debt to academic colleagues for shaping my View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Business School with an interest in explo... FOCUS Foods Wins Social Enterprise Grand Prize 2015 Julia Kurnik Barakat Bundle Wins Social Enterprise Runner-Up 2015 Karima Ladhani HSPH 2015 HBS NVC: One Simple Idea Can Change Everything... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded
it’s usually cash. Harris received his engineering degree at Purdue University, where he joined a campus group of black engineers who supported one another. In his senior year, Harris took the idea nationwide by cofounding the National... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
Recognizing that business is an important driver in creating prosperity both for individuals and for communities around the world, Harvard Business School educates leaders who have the capacity to address complex challenges and help improve people’s lives. Equally... View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
impact.” Key items on his agenda include leveraging interactive learning technology, establishing knowledge-sharing partnerships with other institutions, and networking with NGOs, foundations, and companies that can help alumni put their View Details
- 11 May 2018
- News
Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact
here.” The piece goes on the note Andela’s rising impact, with 1,000 coders (and growing) supporting tech companies “from New York to Pittsburgh to San Francisco.” That growth is helping build not just firms abroad, but bringing stable careers to Lagos. "Our View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter offered several ideas for coordinating and economizing, including assigning patient care to holistic, integrated practice units, instead of treatment by specialties and discrete services. View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
school's new online education program. "We often think of ideas in the visual space arising through creative genius. But they actually are shaped through experience," Anand said during a summit session called "Transforming Giants: Forget... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big business on public... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
to those of Mosaic, a similar tool then under development at the University of Illinois. Reviewers of Brooks's prototype raved about its ease of use and reliability. The engineer felt certain that, with EG&G's backing, his idea would... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people. Yet most can't afford... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
down ideas and offered counter-critiques. While discussions sometimes got heated, she noticed that participants were careful to critique a person’s ideas and not the person (another rule). Although messy and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
The torpedoes kept coming. Not to be dramatic or anything, but for any product developer this is the most painful moment of their career. The moment when the fledgling idea you’ve spent months, maybe years, cultivating, testing,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
tight-knit cohort to resonate ideas among while simultaneously being integrated into the diverse HBS and SEAS ecosystems. The program perfectly mirrors my own interest in redefining the relationship between business management and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
Video Embed At the 2016 New Venture Competition finale 12 teams competed from 3 tracks for more $225,000 in cash prizes. The opening video portrays inspiring companies founded by HBS graduates and students to show that one simple idea can... View Details
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
impactful as an adult,” crediting Professor Michael Tushman’s ideas for the inspiration and title of his TED talk, “The Ambidextrous Opera Company.” In a recent episode of the Atlanta Opera podcast The Business of Opera, Zvulun talks to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his View Details
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Performance: How America’s High-Growth Midsize Companies Succeed, encountered the idea for the center in a local newspaper and ran with it. Now the center educates more than 150,000 visitors a year and includes a unique network of... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details