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- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
from, so art investors need a steady supply of new artists. “We have no market for contemporary art by young artists here,” says Shibayama, who notes that there is a social benefit as well as a financial return in supporting artists. “We have around 20,000 art majors... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
hit," notes Joe O'Donnell, a former varsity catcher at Harvard College and now chairman and CEO of Boston Concessions Group, Inc. "At the time, the ball just barely cleared the fence, but 25 years later you remember it sailing out of the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
developed and first taught by William Sahlman, helped to define the path of the unit's work. When it was introduced in 1985, more than half the class tried to enroll; to date, over four hundred students have taken Entrepreneurial Finance... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
financial aid offer, the decision then became one she described as “heart versus head”—her heart was set on HBS but her financial aid package was less than those from other schools. “From my college major to my first job, every decision... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
retired and who can have financial security in their golden years because their finances were managed well. It could be a young person buying their first stock. It could be a small-business owner needing capital. If those people couldn’t... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
School,” he responded. Sills knew he wasn’t being truthful but nonetheless hired him to be the opera’s finance director. Later, he would be promoted to executive director. “This was the first time I challenged the path that seemed laid... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
application fee waiver. When we piloted this, we saw an uptick in numbers among those applying who identify as first-generation college students, some underrepresented minorities, and some women. How confident can a student from a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details
- 16 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports
Division I college basketball player at St. John’s University. He then pivoted his career path into investment banking, corporate strategy, and management consulting before circling back to the game he loves. Now at MSG, Laitsas is... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
college knowing, based on conversations with mentors and looking at my role models in business, that I wanted to go to business school,” he said. HBS was also always his top choice. “I chose ICV (as my next company after working in... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD DEC View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Hayes teaches in and runs the Executive Education offering Strategic Finance for Smaller Businesses, serves on several committees, and is an advisor to the Dean. He also teaches in and runs the two-week summer session Analytics, an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
college knowing, based on conversations with mentors and looking at my role models in business, that I wanted to go to business school,” he said. HBS was also always his top choice. “I chose ICV (as my next company after working in... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
clinician.” But if a business career was Fisher’s new goal, and if she was going to become a leader, she soon realized that she needed a more formal education than that she had received in visiting the startups financed by her father. In... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
starting a business .” Todd Krasnow (MBA ’83), an EiR from 2006 to 2007, describes the year as “all the fun of being on the HBS faculty without the heavy lifting.” He held brown-bag lunches, sat in on classes, and coauthored a case with Roberts and Sahlman on View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
enjoyed the process of creating something that people valued and would pay for." Her birthplace in Africa, combined with her education — boarding school in England, college and graduate school at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins — and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
their quest for revenue generation. It can also be risky and difficult to finance a hybrid: Venture capitalists may be turned off by the idea of funding an organization preoccupied with its social mission, while charitable foundations may... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel