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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital, Unger explains, venture... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
who was the first in his extended family to attend college. “I got that job because the head of research was a Dartmouth graduate and he came up to campus to interview candidates—that shows the power of connection.” It’s a realization... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
like your Facebook page. And like Facebook, access to blockchain ledgers can vary: A new profile photo might be accessible to everyone in your social network, while you might grant only your family the ability to see a picture of your... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams “This memoir is a journey into a life like no other. Born blind in Tam Ky, Vietnam, the author was dressed in the soiled clothes of her siblings when she was two months old (her... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in the early 1980s. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
obesity is contagious: If my family and friends are obese, the likelihood of me being obese is much higher. Later studies refuted that claim because of the inherent problem of homophily, which simply means that birds of a feather flock... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and his View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
were able to understand how firms are approaching the tremendous uncertainty related to COVID-19. One of the aspects of this research that has impressed me the most is how, for many companies, this crisis has created an opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with your CEO?" A cautious few raised their hands. "Now, how many of you would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with a friend or family member?" she inquired. About half of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics. The authors show how enterprising View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
with the investment-management firm PIMCO, Lemmon is now the deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential, nonpartisan think tank headquartered in New York. She has recently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time horizons of many successful... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group, announced that the firm would be donating Rs 200 crore (~$27 million) to address the “on-the-ground challenges” resulting from the surge in coronavirus cases in India. As noted in the Business... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
understand what it means to want to provide for your family. And some of us have not come from the best means, so we're looking to do something to help our families and our communities. And the challenges that come along with balancing... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
failure in the startup and tech ecosystems. I think the HBS community is particularly well-suited to be a problem-solver here. We have so many leaders in VC, startups, and entrepreneurship. Our alumni network literally runs the largest venture capital View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
school and worked for about half a decade and then left to look for a smaller firm to buy. Tell Rick and me about your career and what made you decide to leave your job and buy your own business. Is it because you had a terrible job? Were... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
CEO of Furman Selz, growing the company more than tenfold. He also creates a happy and abundant family life, though he never forgets what it means to struggle. At age 60, he is reminded of his painful past when a View Details