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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
slowdown elsewhere within the industry, too. Last year’s decline in IPO activity meant VC firms generated just $71.4 billion in exits compared to $753.2 billion in 2021—a 90.5 percent drop. Fundraising also plummeted. Only 769 funds... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
partnerships with others, like Time Warner. Martha had lots of ideas and a great sense of the possibilities of the businesses and the potential for brand building, but what was missing was a real game plan for getting there. Conversely, I... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
communities.” That realization prompted Bobo to leave his position as a principal at the Carlyle Group and in 2016 launch Project Destined (PD), a social impact vehicle that trains inner-city youth to be active partners in sourcing and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Julia and her sister, Elizabeth ("Liza") Simmons Hoke, also actively support higher education. "It's clear, now more than ever, that education is the key to the future," says Liza, who works in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
your life, particularly early on. Gerald Schwartz: I think the real influence in where I grew up was where my father was. I had a wonderful relationship with him. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
and the son of another sectionmate, Rabbi Keith Karnofsky (MBA 1982), who gave his perspective on the real risks of AI and what needs to happen to minimize the hazards. That session held a special significance for the group as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
is currently enrolled at Harvard College. A member of the HBS Visiting Committee since 1996, Waters has long been involved in fund-raising activities and as a key member of numerous committees at HBS and at the College. In addition, he... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to overproduce and create such... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
deep and thorough discussion. Our section still gets together regularly to talk about real stuff, and while differences have grown and worldviews have changed in many cases, we are still united in the mutual respect and norms that we... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
information here. Alumni Breathe New Life into HBS Club of Seattle The HBS Club of Seattle is once again an active and growing alumni club, thanks to the recent efforts of its current co-presidents Shyam Ayengar (MBA 2006) and Jon... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Company, a commercial real estate firm where he worked on transformative urban real estate projects. One of those ventures was a 350-unit, mixed-income apartment development, near Atlanta’s MARTA train... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
(self-reliance)—proof that Indians could make their own products, without the British. Today, Godrej has a more than $4 billion global market for its products, which range from security appliances to furniture, soaps, and real estate. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
comedy. The two rivalrous main characters—him, the owner of a soulless big bookstore chain; her, the proprietor of a charming independent—eventually fall in love, the independent bookstore closes, and audiences discover that big chains can have heart too. But in the... View Details
Keywords: April White