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- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
university in the world and definitely enhances the greatness of HBS and Harvard University. Thank you, Mr. Spangler, Anna, and your family. Warren C. Nagler (MBA 1988) Manhattan Beach, CA Green Energy and Government Subsidies Regarding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Start Me Up
In April, HBS students and alumni looking for capital ran their good ideas through the gauntlet. As part of the New Venture Competition, the School's annual entrepreneurship challenge, 25 finalists— 8 student teams and 17 alumni... View Details
- 19 Jul 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
made significant investments in Nigeria’s energy infrastructure. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping enterprise,” he says. Elumelu is passing this philosophy on to the next generation through the Tony Elumelu... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
entrepreneurship just doesn’t square with reality. Our special focus coverage of entrepreneurship in this issue will help set the record straight — starting with the cover photo. The pictured trio aren’t the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. It brought together dozens of academics, practitioners, investors, and policymakers to discuss the current status and future direction... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
which he started in 2010, is now the largest energy investor in Nigeria, producing more than 18 percent of the country’s power through Transcorp Power, its investee company. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tackling the data dilemma
centers. HP’s answer is the Moonshot server system, introduced in 2013, which uses 89 percent less energy and 80 percent less space, and costs 77 percent less than a traditional server environment. “No other company is taking on the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Uncharted Territory
(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the state. “When I set up Aravaipa... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
rely on dirty or dangerous energy sources like kerosene lamps and diesel generators. The Soccket is not unlike Matthews herself: a bundle of energy using play to change the world. Creating things seems to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
is in energy efficiency. She was an early employee of OPower, a software company that provides utilities, and their customers, better information about energy usage. After the company’s IPO, in 2014,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
settlement, all while requiring less computational power and using far less energy than many current blockchains. Dyer says they have also tested the first public stablecoin (a cryptocurrency that has its value pegged to a commodity or... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
and marketing director to head of innovation. After years at Covanta, a waste-to-energy business, she now runs Fueled for Growth, an energy consulting company, while devoting her personal energies to helping... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US Pawame: Making solar energy affordable in Africa through a microfinance approach using mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
second-year students traveled to Israel for a 10-day Immersive Field Course (IFC) that plunged them into the country’s thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Often referred to as the “Startup Nation,” Israel has more venture capital per... View Details