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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. He also leads a new merchandising and media company serving the African-American community via the Internet. Of these ever-changing challenges, he quips, "I just enjoy learning new... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
students learn how to apply discipline to the inexact science of valuing private enterprises." Running and Growing the Small Company The dramatic beginnings of entrepreneurial businesses have been much... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
She's also the founder of Moms of Black Boys United, a nonprofit with over 170,000 members nationwide that had an unexpected start in 2016 as a private Facebook group. When she wrote the first post that started that group, McGruder was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small businesses choose among several portable,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the next twenty years. All this... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners Sara Graziano (MBA 2011) and Chris Smith (MBA 2001), who contributed complementary skills from the energy sector, to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
company while still at HBS and had recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing had gotten its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
the government and the private sector, which is critical in a country run by personal—not transactional—relationships, says Gordon. It’s one of CET’s key differentiators. Built on the foundation of Collin Laverty’s 13 years in Havana,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company he founded in 1995 and led through 2005. He set out to build a company with a “good soul,” he says. “We were like the U.N.—we had one of everything—Hilton, Hyatt,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
faculty members representing diverse academic units at HBS traveled to Munich to probe the factors underlying the Mittelstand model. They visited companies both private and public, large and mid-sized, to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
effectively, it was essential that all key public and private sector players work together to deliver payments digitally,” Goodwin-Groen says. “Those companies and governments that took action and can pay... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
answering President Kennedy’s call to give back. He then transitioned to the private sector. “I’ve always been interested in how leadership leads to service,” says George, who served in senior executive positions at Honeywell and Litton... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile innovation: As e-commerce... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
1981) KORTENHORST and KORMI: The global energy transition involves the public and private sectors alike. Global R&D budgets for energy are growing, with 20 countries, including the United States, making commitments at the 2015 United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
private equity then exploring the evidence on performance of private equity investments at both the portfolio company level and fund level, documenting the creation of economic... View Details