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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Public Good
“I’ve got to listen and learn before I make major changes.” Hudson’s background includes 25 years of experience in the corporate world, most recently in the field of medical technology. After a year-long break following a successful IPO,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
Last summer Gregory W. Slayton (MBA '90) took a break from the rapid pace of Silicon Valley. The peace and quiet of a family vacation allowed him some time to reflect and, incidentally, he mentions, to start three companies. Slayton seems... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Kudos from the Academy
HBS faculty members and doctoral students were prominent among honorees at the Academy of Management's annual conference, held last summer in Washington, D.C. For their book Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate... View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
as a quasi babysitting service, enabling grandparents to bond with their grandchildren while parents take breaks to shower or make an important call. Another is that kids are using the app for virtual playdates. They can play tic-tac-toe... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
while at HBS. First, he considered public markets and venture capital, but ultimately was drawn to working with a startup. To break into that ecosystem, Westphal worked on some small projects for startups during his first year at HBS. He... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
says. Breaking down those human barriers can be a first step toward getting to a place where a corporation can see the maximum benefit and minimum risk of collaborating on a potential solution to a big world problem. Once it’s translated... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
or masters of ceremonies), graffiti, and break dancing. While hip hop recently marked its twentieth birthday, the genre's steady growth has led it into the mainstream. According to a February 1999 Time magazine cover story, rap (the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
much faster annual rate than other cities such as Chicago.” To help stem the tide, Motley has cofounded a $50 million fund focused on startups with Black and diverse founding teams, launched a nonprofit dedicated to getting more Black executives on corporate boards,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
America’s history,” Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) said in a release. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread economic inequality, especially for Black and Latinx people.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
projects in America, Mission Rock will be developed on land owned by the Port of San Francisco. Team officials plan to break ground in 2015. In addition to construction jobs, the project is expected to support more than 7,000 permanent... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
million last year—discusses how she employed strategies from her years as a consultant to her startup work. “What I really learned from those experiences was how to break down even the most complicated processes into their most minuscule... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
Readers of Kotter's latest book will learn to appreciate the difference. Breaking Through by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro (Harvard Business School Press) On the cusp of a new millennium, the face of corporate power in the United... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
they spent their winter breaks from college on a scale from 1 (“no regret at all”) to 7 (“a lot of regret”). Some of the students were contacted a week after returning from their winter break; other students were asked to look back on how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
Greylock Partners, one of the country’s first—and foremost— venture capital firms. “I don’t think the term ‘venture capital’ was in anyone’s vocabulary when we were students,” he notes. Joining Greylock and overseeing its early involvement in the software industry was... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the next 15 years, the goal in our schools is to really break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for high-level college education and, eventually, livelihoods," says Leschly. "Because then you can View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a recently-released book, The Politics Industry: How Political... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
plexiglass shield. Your room might be sealed, with a message that it’s been cleaned, inspected, and certified in the appropriate way. The room probably won’t have had a previous occupant for two to three days. You’re the only person who View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
subsidiaries, and affiliates. Transfer pricing is legal, but when it becomes abusive — serving no legitimate business purpose and with tax evasion as its only intent — then you are breaking the law.” Opinions differ, however, over what... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
granted today—the nonprofit sector and philanthropy—didn’t exist in the mid-‘90s. The idea of being of service to others, to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty, has felt to me as the highest possible calling. What a privilege... View Details