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- 01 Jun 2025
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Cohen (MBA 1967) Trustee, DC Public Libraries Chair, DC Library Foundation; Under Secretary of State for Management, 1997–2001 Early days: “My dad was an HBS alum and said the MBA program had just opened to women. I told him I had no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
participate in clinical trials. On March 29, Kapoor and his wife devised a solution: WorldWithoutCOVID.org, a nonprofit public health initiative that connects medical researchers with willing volunteers. A longtime student of network... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
we want to convey." Marketing efforts will include creating new publications targeted at specific audiences, as well as sending HBS representatives to colleges and universities to discuss business-education options with undergraduates.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
churches, synagogues, corporations, and service clubs to build and repair these houses. It's a ministry to both sides. But it is also a complex organization that demands planning for logistics, organizational issues, strategy, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Compaq.” While KPCB’s investments today have grown larger, the basic principle is unchanged. “We are a service organization. We aid entrepreneurs in building new businesses or even whole new industries,” says Doerr, who helped shape many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
affected company shut the necessary doors, saving it an estimated $20 million. Flashpoint has public sector clients too, including global governments as well as US military and law enforcement agencies. In fall 2014, it launched a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
moderators and discussants. The panels examined aspects of education, the environment, finance and philanthropy, health care, international development, public policy, and technology. A “Pitch for Change” competition gave participants a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Save the Dates
5, 2003 HBS Global Leadership Forumns “From the Commanding Heights to the Market: The Changing Face of Business” Shanghai, China June 17–20, 2003 “The Private Sector and the Public Interest” Washington, DC March 9–12, 2004 “Coming... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Kenny Appointed Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Kenny, who has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and communications at universities and firms such as Monitor, Genuity, and Arthur D. Little, has been named chief marketing and communications officer at HBS, a newly created position. Describing Kenny... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) grew up on an asparagus farm in Scotts Ferry, New Zealand, a village of 65 people. The only girl in her high-school class, she went on to attend Macalester College in Minnesota, becoming the first college graduate... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
decided to write a case study to bring the conversation into the classroom and to business leaders who would be able to direct capital, economic opportunities, and social services to an often-overlooked region of the country." Please talk... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
week, a handful of new companies open themselves up to the public through Republic’s platform, where it often takes just $25 and a credit card to buy in. (In Roomi’s case, the minimum investment on Republic was $50.) The result is a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
the public and private sectors. Before founding these firms, Gandhi was head of the institutional strategy area for Morgan Stanley and then vice chairman of investment banking and global head of the financial institutions business for... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
with me. After a decade of running Aragon, I’m using the same approaches I use in choosing investments to identify the most effective curriculum for the children in our program, while being mindful of the budgetary constraints of public... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
investment attractive to Wall Street and Main Street. REITs take off. Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of... View Details