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- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
firm. A veteran in the industry with recent experience in late-stage start-ups such as Mandiant and ArcSight, Scheel joined the company in 2014. Symantec is spinning off Veritas, a storage and back-up business it acquired a decade ago.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
reflect the nature of the threat demands. I am again in proud service to this country. Frank Yang (MBA 2006) Founder, President, CEO Liatris, Inc. The most intriguing aspect of the IRA for me, running a start-up developing greener and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
whole episode has certainly highlighted the manufacturer’s duty to validate the quality of suppliers.” For the full story of how SmartPak got its start, years before this bump in the start-up road, you’d want to meet Westley, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we opted for a strategic partnership... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
grown, we’ve gone from feeling like a small, scrappy start-up to a much bigger organization, which brings with it new challenges and opportunities. “I also find the lessons from BSSE useful on a daily basis—‘Jobs to be Done’ is one of our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
publish his recommendations. We truly lost a legend! Leonard (“Ted”) Marks Jr. (MBA 3/’48, DBA ’61) Prescott, AZ Supporting Inner-City Start-ups Congratulations to Catherine Rohr for recognizing the entrepreneurial talent in Texas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Pincus set up shop, the general impression of private equity matured. SUVIR SUJAN first thought of returning to India when consulting work brought him home in 1999. Since then he's sold a start-up to eBay and recently launched a... View Details
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- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
company. But I think most HBSers are ready for entrepreneurship one way or the other. And so I would say, swing for the fence. Michael Segal (MBA 2015): Michael Segal.My advice is based on my own experience, where at least for the first year, my head was in a bunch of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
R&D," explains Yeo. "A short time later, I set up the EDB's Singapore Bio Innovation Fund to invest longterm in overseas start-ups to learn as much as possible about the nascent biotech industry. And on June 26, 2000, the day the United... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ogden, who serves as co-managing director with Leiman. “Whenever we came to a decision point during the start-up phase we would joke with each other, ‘They’re at the end of the A case, they’re looking at each other in despair, what do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Given that a nonprofit has fewer resources, it requires a start-up mentality.” That challenge, along with Habitat’s ongoing growth and evolution as an organization, promise to keep Song engaged for the long haul. “I’ve been blown away by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Foundation's overall portfolio. Our goal was that an intern would take away a sense of how strategic philanthropy works in education, in addition to feeling that she was part of a fun, hardworking start-up organization committed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on further private investment,... View Details
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
address top-management concerns, and share best practices and insights. Women Building Business -an MBA elective field study seminar led by HBS professors Myra Hart and Lynda M. Applegate intended for students who plan to design and launch View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
start-up approach applicable to the health care sector? For heavily regulated drugs, diagnostics, and devices, a 'launch early and often' strategy simply isn't possible, although entrepreneurs can still run lean tests to gauge the level... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Partner U.S. Venture Partners Bowes Jr. After founding U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco in 1981, Bill Bowes helped shape companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Applied Biosystems, and Ross Stores. More recently, he has focused on venture philanthropy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
financial institutions in his native land. He then risked all his fortune to launch his own bank. “Entrepreneurship really means taking risks,” says Özyeğin, whose start-up eventually became one of Turkey’s largest private banks. Today,... View Details
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