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- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
shared the challenges of starting a family while starting a company. “Having a baby and doing your startup at the same time is really much harder for women,” says Garg, who had a baby after IVF treatment, all while building Riya... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
most importantly, a platform is something you can build on. Cummings developed the Orchestra Place project, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous other performances spaces and educational programs. It is nicknamed “The... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
impact, Huebner and friends created Minds Matter in 1991. In the first year, the friends tutored a half-dozen students and subsequently sent two to preparatory schools on fully paid scholarships. Convinced of what was possible, Huebner led a View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
Last fall’s Harvard-Yale football game (10–zip, Crimson ) marked the fortieth anniversary of Harvard’s famous 29-29 “victory” over the Elis. HBS later became a tiebreaker of sorts: Five players from Yale’s 1968 team went on to get MBAs at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
possibility of teaching what I’ve learned to others. What do you think are your best accomplishments to date? I am proud of building companies that endure. I have never wanted a company to be dependent on my being there. I am pleased that... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Redesigning Schools for Today’s Learners
Through the NewSchools Venture Fund, Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) is bringing together teams of innovators and educators to reinvent the way schools work for today’s learners, to help the current generation of students gain access to what... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) introduced the Choosing Our Own Lives Over Fast Firearms (COOL OFF) Act, which, at the time of this writing, is cosponsored by 71 other members of the US Congress. The act builds on legislation the congressman... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
large should initial innovation teams be? (Just a few people, but include seasoned members.) Should new projects be kept close to the core organization or set up shop on the periphery? (Depends if the innovation View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
hospitals build cross-functional and cross-organizational teams that coordinate patient care more effectively. "Given the diversity of skills and backgrounds of doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers,... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Africa, more broadly? Sulyman: That is actually coincidental, the fact that I graduated the same year as Andela was founded. I joined the team in 2016, so it had been operating for almost two years at the time. And I came in to lead the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
between 20 and 30 percent of the headcount is not optimized for utilization,” Berendt says. “About 200,000 people are sitting idle. We want to take this wealth of talent and connect it to Fortune 5000 companies.” These talent-as-a-service offerings will allow global... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
solutions. In order to help students prepare, we have developed an innovative prematriculation program, most of which is online. Our Prematriculation and Academic Services teams have developed a first-rate Web site where admitted students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
leads a team?” By 8:30 Thursday morning, Foalea is ready. Today, she will shepherd the Startup Lockdown team through 12 to 14 intense hours of brainstorming, market research, and prototype building to test... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
Harvard students, equip scientific startups with the lab resources and programming needed to grow and scale life science ventures, and generate insights and expertise about what it will take for Harvard to continue to build a successful... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details