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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
and flexible full-time positions is good business (the company has franchises nationwide and saw revenues of $16.2 million in 2012). O’Kelly has declined venture capital funding to maintain more control over growth, believing that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Tu Veux Sprechen Conmigo Online?
“It’s cool to say you speak six languages,” Karen Ong (MBA ’08) told the Boston Globe (March 12, 2008). “But the process of learning a language is boring.” So Ong decided to do something about it. She created MyHappyPlanet.com, an online... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the Black View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
oil from these ecologically sensitive areas would fuel North America’s energy needs for just two weeks. That stark fact took on a human face when Sander met Santiago, chief of the Achuar, a rain-forest tribe. “Alison, you need to go back to your local View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
yourself wanting to learn more and spend more time? At an early, highly personal phase like this, the best learning will be experimental, not analytical. For personal giving, do you favor a community foundation (advised giving fund) or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
their aspiration. Over dinner, Seth spoke passionately to the group about capitalism and the responsibilities of business leaders. His words resonated with many and I am delighted to share them here, for all the School’s alumni, with his... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
i-lab, RallyPoint won the $100,000 MassChallenge start-up competition last fall and was a runner-up in the 2012 HBS Business Plan Contest. In December, it announced that it had raised $1 million from angel investors. As Weiss explained to the View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
relatable—they can help listeners understand what makes HBS distinctive and how it’s making a difference in the world,” explains Brian Kenny, HBS’s chief marketing and communications officer and host of “Cold Call.” Two to three times a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bloomfield Hills, MI A Taxing Question Regarding his My Two Cents column, “My Beautiful Capital Gain,” in the March issue, I’d ask this of Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970): The money you invested was already taxed once at ordinary income tax rates,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
seen as symbolic of Harvard’s openness to the local community as the University expands its presence on the Boston side of the Charles River. Completed after just 22 months of construction, this new HBS... View Details
- 20 Mar 2023
- News
Taking His Shot
Before Matija Pecotić (MBA 2019) beat Jack Sock—a tennis star once ranked 8th in the world—at a Florida tournament in February, he had to ask his boss for time off to compete. "I had to send an email to the whole team. [My boss] let me off," Pecotić, the director of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
Omosa, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Juan Carlos Pereira, Presidential Commission for Investment Promotion (in Nicaragua); and (front row) Nicole Hanrahan, Women's Educational and Industrial Union; Alexis Palmer, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
it has been challenging to balance all of the above with fundraising simultaneously. Thanks to our user traction, however, we have been able to raise sizable capital through inbound inquiries from prominent investors as well as... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
Burke: A need to close the income gap. After her graduation from HBS, few people could accuse Mary Burke (MBA 1985) of having led a dull life. As reported in the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times (October 5, 2011), Burke first worked for... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Improving the business of medicine
As founder and managing partner of KBL Ventures, Dr. Marlene Krauss (MBA 1967, MD 1979) combines her business and medical training to bring health care device and bio-tech ventures to market. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and... View Details