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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
Will Boland (MBA ’09) cofounded CarLotz, based in Richmond, Virginia. It’s an innovative venture that’s designed to take the hassle out of the automotive sale-by-owner market. “Most people describe the process of buying or selling a used... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, transparency and liquidity. PhytoTEK supplies a unique biologic solution for the infection-control... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
His 25th Reunion gift to establish the William F. Dawson Jr. MBA Program Innovation Fund and his support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation reflect his interest in helping MBA students develop... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
as cochair. Stevens, managing director of S-Cubed Capital and a former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, has invested in Internet companies for nearly two decades, but it was his own encounter with distance learning 30 years ago that... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
cross-sector organizations in Brazil, Ecuador, and Senegal. Plans are under way to expand to China and India. The Global Citizen Year idea also garnered Falik an HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship in 2009, along with a check for $25,000. "That additional View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
the world that has benefited everything from lemurs in Madagascar to sage grouse habitats of Wyoming, forests in New England to water quality on the Rappahannock River. Such efforts have also a spurred significant innovation in financing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Support for a Common Theme
support its success. We are, after all, One Harvard." Patty and Lincoln Benet (both MBA 1989), members of HBS’s Global Leaders Circle and supporters of the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation and the Harvard University President’s Fund... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
Business and business leaders are now being called upon to solve more social problems, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010). Segneri, who worked on public- and social-sector innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies, was recently named director of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
States. What’s that? Yes, R&D investment produces benefits and prosperity, but not the wide array of pluses and spill-overs offered by “venturesome consumption” of new products and services, the author contends. Citing his own research... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
inclusion and investing into underrepresented communities,” she says. “Great games can come from anywhere. The company’s called Midwest as they are headquartered in Wisconsin and are focused on highlighting talent from underrepresented... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
and the bar is set very high in the medical field. Third, it has to have defensible intellectual property. The timelines are stretched so much that it's hard to raise investment capital if there isn't the potential of a substantial reward... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
research initiatives, including the new FIELD course required of all first-year students. And it increased investment in capital projects. For example, $16 million went to renovating the former WGBH building at 125 Western Avenue, now... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
research into the causes of the crisis. “Jay came at the recession like the expert he was,” says Angela Crispi (MBA 1990), Executive Dean for Administration during Light’s tenure. “He moved quickly to manage expenses, while continuing to View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen closely to customers, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed... View Details