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- 01 Jun 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap
Anas Aljumaily (MBA 2017) Elian Pres-Gurwits (MBA 2018) Cofounders, Gently Concept: Focused on urban markets, Gently is a last-mile delivery service that uses predictive analytics, electric trucks, and “nano-fulfillment” centers to provide sustainable, affordable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
billion in green technologies. What makes an entrepreneur successful? Great entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks is possible with less than anyone thinks is possible. Whom... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
CFO in 1996. “We took that company from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
developers, landlords, and banking industry leaders―through powerful grassroots campaigns. Gillis provides a vivid portrayal of the political dynamics and the coalition of community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and residents that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep
success. In Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS Press, 2005), Cruikshank debunks the characterization of HBS as a “handmaiden to the Fortune 500,” churning out only top CEOs. View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- News
Raising Prospects for Female Funders
Maria Eugenia Giron (MBA 1992) is an entrepreneur and investor in the luxury goods industry, based in Madrid. She’s a cofounder of Rising Tide Europe, a women’s angel investing... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
later stages, with a model that rewards in the longer-term. The article also lays out the current challenges for solar, including the falling price of fossil fuels and the potential lack of political appetite for clean energy. But the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
team up with peers from other backgrounds. “Those who work across disciplines almost always come up with better and more powerful ideas,” says Datar, noting that the 30 budding entrepreneurs met regularly as a group View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
but a lot of them,’” says Gernon. After earlier posts in health care tech and brand marketing, Gernon worked with a number of successful startups—including MotherNature.com, which had a $50 million IPO. More recently, she discovered a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia, the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
Social Venture Partners International; and, closer to home, from Jan Owen, a well-known Australian social entrepreneur who joined SVA just after it was formed. “The experiences and content those people shared with me was invaluable. View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Apr 2022
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Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
to help mayors of cities in Israel improve public services for residents and strengthen ties with the global community. Modeled on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which has supported 200... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
In 2018, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) launched Big Ideas Ventures to find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
trial and error; entrepreneurs are those who can turn unavoidable setbacks into advantages.” Third, he concluded, “Principles often have a cost, but it’s always a bargain in the end” because principled... View Details
Keywords: Graduation
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley