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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
transitioning to a different venue.” “Venue” doesn’t quite do justice to Bemis’s other pursuits, which include an ongoing interest in public service (he recently launched an unsuccessful third campaign as a Republican candidate for the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Thematically, the conference aimed to explore the major challenges of angel investing, managing and growing through a pandemic, as well as expanding opportunity for diverse founders and funders, confronting racial justice, and harnessing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
for me, there's a Staples at the corner. I park, grab my laptop and my briefcase, and sprint down the street. The guy at Staples tells me I can recover my disk with Norton Utilities. I tell him I'm no tekkie, but he tells me it's real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
In 2000, Fisher founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to Perkin Elmer in 2007 for... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
who volunteers to teach dance in the New York City public schools. “I want to make movies that are entertaining and commercially successful but also have the potential to change someone’s outlook on life and make a difference in a good... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan, India. “We’ll soon have a dialysis center there,” Jain says... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
investor interest is rising in both the public and the private sector: In December, the US Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of programs and prizes meant to further kick-start the industry; In April, payments giant Stripe... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related... View Details