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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
an entrepreneur; what the role of a fundraising leader entails; and why and how fundraising can be rewarding and fun. The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman (Princeton... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
you’ll be missing a skill set. RU: One key issue for retail startups—specifically in fashion and beauty—is raising capital, because VCs tend to be male and often have little exposure to female-focused industries. How can a fashion or beauty View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in her native country.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
founder of ISI Emerging Markets; Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology; Gary Rogers (MBA ’68), retired CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream; Jeffrey Walker (MBA ’81), chairman of Millennium Promise; Gwill York (MBA ’84), cofounder... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Salute to 1998
classmates, created startups despite difficult odds, or fought repression in their homeland, they've each demonstrated the kind of dedication and drive, initiative and leadership that make students and alumni proud to be associated with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
child-rearing hiatus. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) has designed what she calls the ideal “playbook” for those situations, and more, with Landit, a technology startup that offers personal brand and network building, skill development,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.” Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) still recalls the first words her father, a small-town accountant, uttered when he visited ViaCord’s startup offices in 1993. “That was his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
educate them about these issues. It took a real pivot for me—a real U-turn—to understand that I couldn’t shame customers into feeling bad about past decisions. I could only give them a product that made them feel really great about what... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
When considering how to enter the digital learning arena, HBS did what any startup would do. It began in 2012 by identifying a challenge: How to merge the unique elements of the HBS learning experience with the latest technology to create... View Details
- 05 May 2025
- Blog Post
Meet the Tech Club
What We Do The mission of the Tech Club is to educate the HBS community on the latest technology trends and essential industry skills. Each year, we provide robust recruiting opportunities and foster meaningful social and professional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 26 Jul 2012
- News
An Avenue for Chasing Dreams
- July 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Enspire Learning
An MBA student founds an e-education business and must decide which customers to target and which products/services to produce. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Education; Business Startups; Planning; Education Industry; Education Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., Frank J Andrasco, Hans ten Cate, and Bjorn Billhardt. "Enspire Learning." Harvard Business School Case 802-001, July 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
technical expertise and gain the business skills needed to commercialize an idea or lead a tech venture. They practice design thinking, build prototypes, and pitch their ideas to potential investors. During the summer, they work on their own View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
investor, entrepreneur, and provocateur—told an at-capacity crowd at Burden Hall that the best startups create and dominate their own markets: “Monopolies are good when they create new things.” During the FIELD 2 Global Dinner in the... View Details