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01 Jun 2003
News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

Trust your instincts. “Make sure you can raise your hand and say, ‘Something doesn’t look right.’ ” Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 1, 2003 Sponsor: HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

could do more for communities when they close a plant or conduct a large layoff. “Many sectors, such as transportation, mining, chemicals, and heavy manufacturing, would do well to engage in community development,” he declares. “I believe if more View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

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

22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

business community who recognizes its growing potential in the US economy. Avance’s focus on lower middle-market business services and consumer sectors that often correlate to the types of companies founded by Latinx entrepreneurs meant... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Apr 2014
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York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

regional competition entered the finals, which took place in early April through online crowd voting as well as judging by a panel of business experts. "Pitch videos" and profiles of each team were posted on YouTube to the competition audience to preview. Members of... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... 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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Jun 2006
News

Bridging the Success Gap

extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business skills... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

wheels, not a baby carriage." But by 1972 Ford was putting Michelins on its Lincolns, and every domestic tire company was finally investing in radials. Radials constituted a technological advance that the five major American tire... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine.” When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest. Today, MBA students again are flocking to real estate courses (see sidebar,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Feb 2000
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Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority

and general manager of the East Coast Division of Nordstrom, Inc.; and Ralph C. Thomas III, associate administrator of NASA. "We negotiate with the companies to sponsor the cost of the dinner meeting for the MBA students, and then we have... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

the Lego brand,” Moynihan recalls. “Ultimately, that led to an extremely difficult period around 2003 and 2004, when we almost lost our financial independence as a private entity.” After that, the company... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

limited ability to scale up and have broad-based impact. Vikram Gandhi (MBA 1989) is working to change that by creating investments that can be self-sustaining. “India has 400 million people within the poverty line,” says Gandhi. “While the government and View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for... View Details