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- 20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Programme in 2014 with a $100 million endowment to empower 10,000 young African entrepreneurs over 10 years. In 2018, the foundation received more than 150,000 applications for 1,000 available spots. The program is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
their very success at product development and fundraising often heightens the chances that they will be replaced. After the founder has successfully met the initial operating challenge of getting the product or service developed, a number of new functions, such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
fellowships that support students and alumni who want to use their business skills to create social good. As you'll notice in this issue of the Bulletin, that drive can take many forms. In "Making Change", we check in with alumni honored with the School's Social View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
building on Western Avenue. The first floor of that building houses the Harvard Innovation Lab, scheduled to open this fall. The i-lab will bring together students and faculty from across the University to learn about entrepreneurship and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
Entrepreneurship is nothing new at HBS. The first course in entrepreneurship was taught over fifty years ago, and the list of alumni who have founded profoundly influential companies — from Continental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
Photo courtesy of Jodi Gernon Before joining HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship as its new director in July, Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991) weighed two other potential career options—joining a startup or launching one of her own. “I... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Dec 2016
- News
How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from Scratch
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to the market’s rise and collapse.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about business realities I’ve been living every day,” he notes. “Finance... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
encouraging labor market mobility. “Setting the table in terms of creating an environment that is attractive to entrepreneurship is one of the most important things that government can do,” he says—and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market principles to solving social problems... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
and Palepu's research, however, showed that conglomerate-owned firms in these markets often outperformed comparable stand-alones. “These business groups appear to Wall Street as anachronisms, but in the context in which they operate, they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
venture capitalists and the amount invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence of the gender... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
during a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS. The startup employs a system for collecting reproductive cell samples from a tampon, which the customer sends to the lab for genomic analysis. The lab then provides... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Together Again
building green businesses to winning in emerging markets to rethinking business education. For many, the reunion was a family affair, with children and grandchildren participating in a variety of activities... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- 10 Aug 2015
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Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
employers are looking for.” Like recent college graduates and other young job seekers, however, veterans new to the civilian job market often lack networking skills and an awareness of opportunities that may fit their qualifications. To... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
scholarships to study in Canada and the United States. Recently named a “Global Visionary” by the Swiss bank UBS, Balares is founder and CEO of Womensphere Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women’s advancement in leadership, innovation, and View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details