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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
WHITMAN When Meg Whitman joined a fledgling online auction start-up in 1998, not many people outside of serious collectors of Beanie Babies had heard of eBay. After ten years under her leadership, the company now has 16,000 employees in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
takes the man’s point of view in hopes of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women, to political correctness, or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws. From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story by Ganesh Natarajan... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
his involvement in the circus to his other interests, Slifka observes that "the circus is something you feel with your belly, not with your head. And belly stuff is where humans connect." His eyes light up and his smile broadens as he talks about the annual United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
gathered in Cumnock Hall. The world population is exploding, and resource use is skyrocketing, particularly in rapidly developing nations like China and India, said Nordan, president of the analyst group Lux Research. “If you do that math... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
national media attention." A principal at Clean Line Energy Partners in Houston, Michael Skelly (MBA 1991), who believes that "MBAs need to 'get out more,'" hopes to get the students to Houston to "introduce them around town and have a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
the New England power industry, where he played a key role in building a start-up company into a $300 million energy marketing enterprise. Seeds of Success When he rejoined Outward Bound full time at Thompson Island in 2005, Pearson... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
and Matt Spielman chronicles the remarkable start-up story of how an annual, one-day, grass-roots indoor cycling event (which initially raised $250,000) grew to become a multi-city international event that has raised more than $9 million... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
others. I view my volunteer efforts as a way to perpetuate the University as a renewable resource that will benefit others for generations to come.” is partner and national director of China for Ernst & Young. Born and raised in Hong... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
give the nation’s schools a grade of C or below. That mix of approval locally and misgivings nationally translates into an attitude of “Let’s work to improve the model we’re used to,” according to a September Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll.... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
but I'm the steward. I aspire to that HBS mission of being a leader who makes a difference." The metrics show that CEE is effecting change. Last year, 10,000 students took part in the National Economic Challenge, almost double the number... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
extraordinarily effective industrial policy, and then, beginning in 2001, as head of the National Science and Technology Board-now known as the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Comprising one main island and thirty... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
be the best place to learn how to organize and think clearly, and thus be able to generate change,” he explains. After graduating, Ahlhauser worked in finance, auditing, and consulting roles for several national firms before hanging out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Government doctrine and practice, and a seminal figure in early Israeli military history. Far from merely a tribute to his legacy, Ossad’s work serves as a critical tool for understanding the realities of mid-20th-century warfare in a... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA 2010) CEO, enVerid Systems Every year, the world adds 51 billion tons of greenhouse... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
are areas where income lost to unjust enrichment would have been saved or invested by black people. It’s not a big proportion of GDP, but it will require a huge emotional and psychological shift in the public’s thinking. I believe it can and will happen.” In another... View Details