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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
Instead of joining the other parents in a competition for weak Wi-Fi in a crowded waiting room, Dixon camped out in her car. She used the time to strategize her startup; news radio kept her company. In all... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners.... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
On a Friday night in November, a capacity crowd of 12,000 spectators is settling in at Singapore Indoor Stadium, shaking off the rain from an early evening downpour typical for the start of monsoon season. They’re here for ONE Fighting... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Dinh Thi Hoa (MBA '92) was a young girl when relatives and friends who feared for her safety spirited her out of Hanoi in the summer of 1972 to escape the fury of U.S. bombing attacks against North Vietnam. She still remembers returning... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
looks out over the sea of guests gathered on the California coast. From across the room she locks eyes with Mariah Wood (MBA 2022). Together, Royle and Wood cofounded Tilden Cocktails, which is sharing the spotlight for a moment. Everyone... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden Auditorium on topics that ranged from the state of the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
teams applied to the New Ventures Competition (NVC), competing in one of three tracks—Alumni, Social Enterprise, and Student Business. While student teams prepared on campus, alumni teams battled it out in 11 regional competitions around... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg’s team suffers total defeat when their glowing blue nexus is shattered. “OK, now I’m going to read out some subs and resubs,” he says, without missing a beat. Each of the nonsensical screen names he reads is that of a viewer who has... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with HBS Alumni Clubs and Associations. In the alumni category, 164 teams had battled it out in 11 regional competitions around the globe. On Wednesday night, in a theatrically... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
dependency. In many cases, it crowded out entrepreneurship and private investment. "After five years working in New York, Indonesia, Angola, and the Central African Republic, I decided I had had enough and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the vote in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
$75,000. Claiming both the alumni grand prize and crowd favorite awards was Blueland, which is “(t)aking the weight and waste out of your everyday products” through reusable bottles and concentrated cleaning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
(video) When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
of characteristics that we look for, but one that stands out in our culture is the capacity to adjust and adapt — the ability to figure out a different way to deliver results while always acting with utmost... View Details