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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
the last quarter century, not only in terms of entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
outside the US. “When we started selling data to government agencies, most of them didn’t know what to do with it, so now we sell analytics that help them make decisions,” says Mistele. “Most governments are struggling with not having enough View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
supervising the funding of various Student Association events. The good-natured Bolick's affinity for people reflects a deep interest in cultural diversity developed as a child living abroad, reinforced as... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
thought I'd try to play along with a YouTube video of Mendelssohn's Trio in D minor," says Chao. "It was such a clunky experience that I gave up after less than a minute. Music is about personal expression, and most of that is baked into your tempo. I thought that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Writing this letter in early spring, I want to provide a midyear update on Alumni Board activities and point out some exciting new developments that will have a direct impact on you. As you know, this year the Board is addressing three... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to depoliticize aid. To be eligible for MCC... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
designers, and graphic artists, creates technology-based tools ranging from multimedia cases to interactive simulations. The team ran two large-scale simulations for faculty and students across campus. In the morning, all first-year students experienced a new... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
1993, the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, supported by the John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47) Fund for Not-for-Profit Management and other resources, has engaged in a wide range of activities. Among the results of these efforts are more... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future priorities of his successor,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
process of fully developing their ventures in agritech, social enterprise, and sustainability. Their journeys illustrate the ways in which HBS delivers the knowledge base that fuels innovation and the support systems that catalyze new... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
staff nearly 6 million meals per year. Through a multi-year grant, the school has developed new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and funded educational and marketing efforts to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying and enjoyable for me at this stage of my life." When... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
(international reserve assets that supplement a country’s official reserves); and negotiating agreements to fund some of flagship projects laid out in the 2019–2023 Priority Action Plan, a development model... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
is developing technology to cool the eggs and make them available on demand. “We’re basically turning fish eggs into seeds you can plant anytime and use whenever you want,” says CEO Dmitry Kozachenok (MBA 2013). Since cofounding Cryoocyte... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would... View Details