Filter Results:
(55)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(272)
- News (55)
- Research (165)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (83)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(272)
- News (55)
- Research (165)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (83)
Sort by
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Behind Apple’s Success, An Unprecedented Financial Model
- 26 May 2016
- News
U.S. innovators dogged by money-grubbing ‘patent trolls’
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
H1B visa squeeze threatens US tech leadership
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
an entrepreneur, investor and inventor who has been working with sustainable housing and renewable energy since 2007. She is the immediate past CEO of BrainHeart Energy, the largest geothermal group in Sweden. She’s also an View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
More Retail Revolutions Manufacturing Makeup on Demand Although it isn’t available yet, Mink, a 3D home printer that produces custom makeup, has already made serial inventor Grace Choi (MBA 2013) a cosmetics celebrity. Katrina Lake knew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
mid-19th century. I selected individuals from different parts of the country who became true titans through the relentless pursuit of a vision or mission. My subjects either were inventors themselves or had leveraged technology in a new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors Your company’s scientists and investors can be antennas that bring great ideas into your company. The key, says Associate Professor Lee Fleming, is understanding... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen (MBA ’62) (Synergetic Press) This memoir chronicles the life of the inventor of Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass and the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Jaegle, an MBA candidate who co-leads HBS’s rowing team, met with a Harvard College strategist who surfs, a brilliant inventor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Harvard Medical School physician-in-training with United Nations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
—HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé, quoted in an obituary for Thai billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya, inventor of the popular Red Bull energy drink. (Washington Post, March 19, 2012) “Sex sells, and it has since the dawn of time neuroscience just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sleight of Hand
moisture-free that objects won’t adhere slightly to the skin. Enter Guy Camirand (MBA ’70), inventor of Elite Magician’s Hand Lotion, which does the trick quite nicely — without making cards or coins all gooey. Camirand, who has been a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
vehicles from Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, KeySpan, and Solectria. Speakers included Segway inventor Dean Kamen (OPM 7, 1982), state and federal officials, scientists, and entrepreneurs. “We hope to foster economically viable alternatives to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
inventors of entire industries (such as management consulting and venture capital) and as leaders in so many other areas, have provided rich raw material for academics to study, refine, and condense into “intellectual capital.” Building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
Illustration: Chris Gash Illustration: Chris Gash The internet grew up inordinately fast. It all happened so quickly, in fact, that it blew right by the accessibility guidelines that would’ve made digital tools available to everyone, regardless of their age or ability,... 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 come naturally to Matthews, who has been an View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
the company completed the largest-ever crowdsourcing campaign for an augmented reality product, raising $1.7 million, and followed it with a $7.5 million Series A in summer 2020. The technology was conceived by inventor Jeri Ellsworth in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock found Sherman Fairchild, an View Details