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- 06 Jan 2020
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Home Grown
view (Granite Equity plans for businesses, including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to the community financially and through volunteer positions on... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) is helping companies and governments apply the most important innovations in water. "Providing solutions to tackle water scarcity is one of the greatest business opportunities of our time," says Shenkar, founder... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
Capital. The goal is to source, process, and distribute fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains within West Africa, thereby improving nutrition levels, aiding farmers, and creating jobs. Social entrepreneurship comes easily to Nwuneli, View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and deliver merchandise to human... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Putting the significance of the accomplishment into perspective, Bricklin's friend and Lotus Development Corporation founder Mitchell Kapor has likened the spreadsheet's impact on the computer era to the building of the transcontinental... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
because they don't live close to a physical distribution point or they are exposed to elevated risk of identity theft by carrying around a DD 214 when they do claim benefits. Correcting that injustice motivates me." The two founders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
ancient nation-state.” A number of HBS grads have contributed to the country’s success story, including Tal Keinan (MBA ’01), a cofounder of the nation’s first full-spectrum financial asset management firm, KCS Capital, and Tal Riesenfeld (MBA ’08), who is a View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
flash-sale site Gilt Groupe. Today, luxury shoppers, once uncertain about the Internet, see it as a way of “accessing special things,” Magnúsdóttir says. More Retail Revolutions Sparking the Flash Sale Gilt Groupe founders Alexis Maybank... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Map Quest
soon had 500 or so rare items from around the world, some dating back to the 1400s. A philanthropist and the founder of the financial firm Westwind Investors, Stone decided to open a museum, and in February his collection went public,... View Details
Keywords: maps
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving consumer goods company based in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) is helping to make New Orleans one of the country's vibrant centers for entrepreneurship. The founder of New Orleans–based trepwise, Wilkins works with emerging entrepreneurial companies across all sectors and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
businesses that consider impacts on all of their stakeholders, not just shareholders.” Coupounas, who often refers to her B Lab role simply as that of storyteller, says entrepreneurs enjoy hearing about other company founders who have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
was the grand prize winner in the alumni track for her on-demand jobs platform, Apli. View a video of Makarov's ninety-second pitch. 6 (L to R) Professor William Sahlman (MBA 1975) interviewed founders of the New Venture Competition:... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
want them returned. He may want me to destroy them. He may not care at all." Norton, who paid $169,411.25 for the letters, has never met Salinger. The founder of Peter Norton Computing, makers of Norton Utilities software programs, Norton... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
education, and advocacy to assist children’s adoptions. “There are 10-14 million voiceless children trapped in these hell holes around the world. We knew we would only be one arrow in the quiver to rescue the Christinas of the world, but we had to do our best to help,”... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings. “Once the forecast failed to... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
programs. This summer, they also closed their first round of venture financing. Day Zero Diagnostics founders Jong Lee (MBA 1999), Miriam Huntley (PhD 2016), Doug Kwon, MD PhD (HMS faculty), Dougal Maclaurin (PhD 2016), and Melis Anahtar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
founder of Friendfactor (www.friendfactor.org), an enterprise that aims to mobilize a national grassroots movement to accelerate the achievement of full legal equality for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Americans. Last... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
Professors Emeriti Kenneth R. Andrews and Thomas J.C. Raymond, two distinguished and much-loved faculty members, both passed away in September. Andrews, who served on the HBS faculty from 1946 to 1986, was a founder of the field of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.” —Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92), founder and CEO of Year Up, a nonprofit providing urban young adults with technical and professional skills... View Details
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