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- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
mainstream Chinese companies because they’re small entrepreneurial Internet ventures initially. In almost all the companies that we back in China, there is little or no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up—even when I left HBS—so the new small business consulting arm of Arthur Andersen seemed like a good place to find out. I was kind of miserable there. But after about a year and a half, I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong upbringing, she was ready for an early... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
goods across borders but in ways that maximize economic benefits for all. Sexy Women Eat: Secrets to Eating What You Want and Still Looking Fabulous by Divya Gugnani (MBA '04) (Harper) Forget about dieting; just eat! Gugnani shows how making View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members. Akin to having a personal board of directors, HBS Alumni Forums... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
year,” he recalls. “I made a note of it, and then came back to it in my second year. I led a field study on the problem with Professor Walter Salmon.” Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the problem of inventory loss but... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
future,” says Goodwin-Groen, “which can allow her access to credit or other services. She can begin to plan or grow a small business and make other investments in her household.” In an experiment in Kenya, access to a digital savings... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
October 6 was palpable. As all 900-plus first-year MBA students streamed into the “hive” classrooms in Batten Hall and made their way to preassigned tables, they found on each a small cardboard box adorned with a big red question mark.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success
going into consulting or investment banking. What I was interested in was the grain merchandising business. His class was very popular and tough, and I loved it. Somehow it struck me—all these large companies that move giant quantities of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Heidi Duckler, has had a modern dance company that performs in unusual urban spaces all over the world—the firing range of the LA Police Academy, a laundromat. Her work causes us to see the ordinary in extraordinary ways.” Pas de deux:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, a Silicon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
that you’re comfortable working next to and interacting with,” says Scott Eckert (MBA 1995), CEO of the nine-year-old, 130-person, Boston-based bot maker. It’s a tenet so core to the company that its logo features an icon of a human next... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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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
- 26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details