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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Lakhani compares blockchain to TCP/IP, a network communications technology that spurred the internet’s growth. No one today, he says, thinks about how TCP/IP works. “They just use FaceTime, they just use email,” Lakhani says. Blockchain... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
hadn’t been put out to bid since 1991. A 2006 addendum—that no one on the school board, past or present, can recall signing, much less discussing—gave a local transportation company a 4 percent annual fuel... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
time we competed. It really represents our growth and perseverance as founders, and it’s incredibly special to be recognized by the HBS entrepreneurship community, as our company truly grew up at HBS.” At M7 Health, cofounders Borkenstein... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
“We’re promoting digital brands, and people need to trust those brands without knowing them,” Azuero says. “Getting that first client, that first user, is harder.” Still, he and Izquierdo are bullish on their prospects, as are investors: Last summer, the View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
world not as an objective to conquer, but rather as a resource we all share. Video Embed "The best and the brightest don't just want to make money; they want to make money and save the planet—they want their cake and they want to eat it too," says Roberts, who took... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
broader impact on the world. “It was super flattering to be selected,” says Nussey, whose companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value over his career. He cofounded a software View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
of risk and released me from a personal prison of achievement. Some context: In 1999, I joined a large-scale startup providing a new consumer phone service in Brazil. We raised $2.5 billion, hired 4,000 people in two years, and successfully deployed a View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His nonprofit is called MaiTai Global, and... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Optimizing requires saying no so you can focus your time and attention on the things that are important to you.” —Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder, president, and CEO, NOWaccount Network Cynthia and Phil Black (MBA 2002) Children: Croix... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
from a local public school, and each adult volunteer was assigned a team of about 7 kids. These groups were tasked with starting and running a company while the adult volunteers would act as consultants to help out when needed, mostly... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Excitement Building for HBS Global Conference in Chicago
established companies and examine how emerging growth firms are developing competitive products and strategies for the global marketplace. Over a dozen presentations and panel discussions on topics such as entrepreneurial marketing,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
it’s going to have legs to it, when our other dinners—while they were great—lasted just four hours and then they were gone.” The Entrepreneurial Company of the Year event is one of the most-attended View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing women to the boardroom table
Placing female candidates on boards of public and private companies is Beth A. Stewart’s mission as CEO of Trewstar. The search firm addresses the inequity of board representation—only 16 percent of Fortune 500 View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
Sense & Respond Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, editors (Harvard Business School Press) In the Network Era - where access to and use of information technology is increasing at an ever-faster pace - the way View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
School’s Bureau of Business Research—comprised a comparative examination of the costs of operating a retail shoe business. The resulting report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories, increase profits, and cut waste.... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
with more members gaining board seats and opportunities to interview. We knew the network was achieving success when a recruiting company sent WomenExecs four open board seats through one of our members.”... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
investors—and that’s what it’s all about for venture capitalists. You know, you could be an entrepreneur without getting outside funding, so just talking about companies that need outside capital and they need the capital to bring the... View Details