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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
boards today, you are generally putting someone on the board who is younger and smarter, and has a specific set of skills not already on that board," she says. "You could say that you could find men with all those same characteristics,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Considered one of Wall Street's most influential young executives, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA '93) has gained that stature by working hard at what she has always loved. “My father was an investment banker, and I think my interest in finance started before my cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of empathy and skills as a communicator and connector. When James Harmon, chairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
help get us—whether as a school district, county, state, country—where we need to be.” At Treasury, Cognetti staffed meetings between high-level officials and European foreign ministers. Coming into HBS, she wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. But the case method honed... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
city’s South Side through 1871, BLUE1647 (a technology skills center), and a $30 million startup fund for neighborhood businesses, among other efforts. “I have one goal,” he said. “If a child walking out of his house looks at the city... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
proceeds go toward the club’s high-impact programs, including pro-bono consulting through Community Partners, workforce development through the Skills Gap Initiative, entrepreneurship through the regional Alumni New Venture Competition... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
extraordinarily demanding group of fellow students and faculty. Developing the skills to listen carefully, think analytically, and communicate clearly is a requirement of leadership." CHARLES WAITE University of Connecticut, 1957 B.S.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Photography by Webb Chappell HBS students are already exceptionally skilled and accomplished people when they arrive at Soldiers Field. But perhaps their education here truly begins when they first understand — and are humbled by — what a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
the MBA Program Office. Admissions As part of its ongoing commitment to attract and admit the best candidates to the School, the MBA Program now requires all applicants to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). "The GMAT... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
operate livestock breeding centers, improve soil systems, and create opportunities for a younger generation to take on farming. In Armenia, Heifer has been teaching farmers about pasture management as well as helping to develop an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
also key to the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, which helps new and experienced faculty improve their teaching skills through one-on-one coaching sessions, seminars, and workshops. A Diversity of Voices About 75 percent of... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
is the right time to act to take the Harvard Business School MBA program to the next level," Dean Nitin Nohria said of the curriculum changes. "HBS has always been a pioneer in the field of management education," he continued, most... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
building leadership skills and working relationships as it was about building businesses. Planning the program for Spring Break would give students time to dedicate solely to fleshing out their business ideas from concept to product... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
requirement to know where you are on the playing field. Different firms can come at the business in very different ways. For Accel, historically we have specialized. Over time, those specializations continue to become more granular. At the same time there are clearly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their... View Details