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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
who also holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter at HBS, a collaboration that led to Duch’s career in competitiveness development consulting. As the founder of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
New HBSAA Board Members
President P.J. Cooper & Co. Sherry Leigh Coutu (MBA '93) Cambridge, England Founder Interactive Investor Ann Graham Ehringer (7th OPM) Santa Monica, California Chairman and CEO S.P. Lodge Byron T. Foster (MBA '57) Milwaukee, Wisconsin... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012
elective course The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. A former editor of the Business History Review, McCraw was a prolific author. His other notable books include Prophet of Innovation (a biography of Joseph Schumpeter) and, most recently, The View Details
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling... View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
director of Teach for America Miami-Dade before becoming CEO of Caribu, landed among the Inc Female Founders 100 list in 2019; Caribu made it to TIME Magazine’s best inventions of that year. Then, in March 2020, as people across the globe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
who could figure out the transmission problem.” “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need another Midwest wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure so that others may benefit
treats the cause, not just the symptoms, of cystic fibrosis (CF) in about 4 percent of the 70,000 people worldwide afflicted with the often deadly disease. When asked how he was able to marshal such support, O’Donnell, founder of Boston... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
assumptions about this demographic. Suddenly there is burgeoning interest in innovating for the oldest members of our society. Abby Miller Levy (MBA 2001), Meredith Oppenheim (MBA 2001), and Lissy Hu (MBA/MD 2014) are among the startup View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
generation. “Last year, we were a mere 99.5 years from real gender equity,” says Heather Stark (MBA 1999), an executive coaching and leadership development consultant and founder and president of Stark Coaching. “Now, one year and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
(ThinkStock) (ThinkStock) As Airbnb has proven, the travel industry is ripe for innovation. What’s next for several alumni- run startups that are reinventing the vacation? The Company The Founder The Pitch The News NewUGo CEO Mei Zhang... View Details
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- 07 Feb 2019
- News
A Course Correction at Chris-Craft
Julius (MBA 1988) helped steer venerable boating brand Chris-Craft into calmer waters. Heese and Julius are the founders of the private equity firm Stellican, which—as detailed in the story—focuses on “rescuing neglected heritage brands,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Soul Man
post–Christian America, like post–Christian Europe.” Added Luce, founder of Teen Mania, a 20-year-old youth ministry, “We’ve been working as hard as we know how to work — everyone in youth ministry is working hard — but we’re losing.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
Hess Courtesy Sciencebuddies.org After seeing his daughter win a science prize, Ken Hess (MBA ’78), himself a science buff since childhood, wondered how he could help other young people with science projects and science appreciation. The View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
marketing, and transitioned to an entirely new industry, accepting the role of CMO at Sequoia Capital. She made the decision after drawing on the advice of a handful of personal advisors, including Judy Zhu (MBA 2009), founder and CEO of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
Family health was the impetus for Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958), founder of one of the world’s largest genealogy resources. “My family carries the beta thalassemia genetic trait,” a blood disorder. When my nephew was diagnosed, and we then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
alumni.hbs.edu/makingadifference. Helping to Fill the Global Education Gap Before he came to HBS, Salman Khan (MBA 2003) didn’t think he had the stomach for entrepreneurship. Fast-forward 15 years, and Khan is founder and CEO of Khan... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a 2019 recipient of the HBS... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
At Specialty Cheese Co. in Reeseville, Wisconsin, founder Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) heads up a company that makes one of the state’s best-known exports: cheese. But as its name suggests, Specialty’s 250 employees manufacture products more... View Details