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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
promising organizations from among grant proposals." The Foundation consists of four student trustees, a faculty advisor, and fifteen HBS students who volunteer to read grant applications. It has now awarded close to $250,000 in grants to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
Each year more than 900 MBA students arrive on the Harvard Business School campus eager to begin a two-year experience that promises to transform their lives. They have been selected because of their academic record, work experience, and... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
runner-up status in the 2013 Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition at HBS. “I didn’t expect to be a social entrepreneur when I came to HBS, but our team viewed the problem as a ticking time bomb,” says Rewane. “We started WAVE with a pilot group of 12... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial champions have the largest stakes?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
The Broadband Explosion Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World edited by Robert D. Austin and Stephen P. Bradley (HBS Press) Associate Professor Austin and Professor Bradley have collected a series of essays about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
approaching 40 who has a seemingly idyllic life, professional success, and a great marriage, but who wonders what happened to the life she had promised to herself when she was young. In a world in which women are expected to be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
lightweight, transparent solar panels, which can be integrated seamlessly into everyday objects, like windows or electronic displays. The technology's promise could lead to widespread adoption of solar power and reduce its cost by... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
promise and the perils of philanthropy. NEW Giving Done Right Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count by Phil Buchanan “I’m a big believer in free-market capitalism, but I also believe we need a strong nonprofit sector. This... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
Mercer Management Consulting, shed some light on the allure and promise of broadband technology in an October 1999 article in Scientific American. In "The Light at the End of the Pipe," Bane and Bradley talk about broadband's potential to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to identify View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
as chairman of Millennium Promise (MP), he helps lead an organization with the vision of ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2025. Despite this shift, Walker sees more similarities than differences between his careers in the private and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Mid-Atlantic cities. Redbrick has determined that homes in up-and-coming urban areas offer a better “rental yield” (a more lucrative rent-to-purchase price ratio) than do expensive houses in wealthier areas. After crunching macroeconomic data to scope out View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
PYMNTS.com. (Readers who know of groups in need of PPE can email Miller at anne@projectn95.org.) NOVEMBER 23 Cambridge-based biotech Moderna, led by CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170), released promising results on the coronavirus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
engagement—that drove their organization when it was a start-up? The answer lies in the power of conversation. Professor Groysberg and his coauthor explore the promise of conversation-powered leadership, from the practice of talking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
most promising of the three existing verticals and align their resources on one major target. 2. Dig deeper. The team could stay focused on the three existing verticals and delve deeper into each one, investing in vertical-specific... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
assets—a model that might well hold promise for other parts of rural and postindustrial America that are struggling to reinvent themselves. “I’m here to create jobs and economic opportunity,” Marietta says. “Not just talk about it, but... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
"masterful" and "worthy of any great ensemble in the world.") As for his future, Lim says, "This marriage of my corporate and music lives is deeply fulfilling; I plan to continue accordingly." For Lim, then, Metamorphosen's success is likely just the first movement in... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed