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- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
work for a startup has anywhere near the resources that a venture capital firm is going to have to do that kind of due diligence, nor do they actually have the time to do it, because usually you get an offer and you might have to give a... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
McArthur. Click photo for larger view. Photos by Susan Young. HBS’s associate director of facilities management, Jason Munro, recently gave photographer Susan Young and me a tour of the Kresge (perhaps better View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
couched in the story of the rise of the restaurant Eleven Madison Park. —Ted Seides (MBA 1999) In Kelly Link’s latest collection of short stories, White Cat, Black Dog, the Pulitzer Prize finalist masterfully rewrites folk tales. I called... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
energy and environmental issues and led him to launch a think tank focused on how to shift energy investment to bring about more energy efficiency. Eager to put his analysis into practice, Sant and a partner founded Applied Energy Services (later View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
textiles from retailers and municipalities across Europe. The company operates facilities in Germany, where garments are sorted with a combination of automation and manual tech, so that the useful life of each piece can be extended. About... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
and former Managing Partner, Venrock Associates Take flight: “I soloed in a single-engine airplane at the age of 14, at a crazy place on Long Island called the Aviation Club. It was a dirt airstrip with telephone poles all around the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
raised in the case are how to raise the necessary capital and structure the deal and whether or not to buy the company. This case inspired me to think about small business and manufacturing in a more positive way. It confirmed that I no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
have been calling for a prepared workforce,” says Sarah Morgan, president of the Benwood Foundation, a nonprofit partnering with area organizations to create shared prosperity in the region. “But that’s new for Chattanooga. As far as... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
engineering, and eventually, management. Dahod describes HBS’s case method as “a shock to my system,” and remembers a dark day in Aldrich Hall during his first year when he was called to open all three case discussions. Earning his MBA,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
manufacturing industries has been identified by some observers as a key factor in the current economic crisis in that region, a collapse that has been called the greatest threat to the world's economic stability in fifty years.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
of trying it, breaking it, and making it better. We’re about 10 years into that now. We’re working with this new material, which is called yulex, and now many other surf companies are using it. We’ve actually got it to the point where it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
community.” HARVARD INNOVATION LABS: WHERE PASSION AND PURPOSE MEET The Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem has been called a place of “structured serendipity” where innovation is fueled by connection and collaboration. The labs enable... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
including facilities in more than twenty arenas and stadiums, serving all kinds of snacks and comfort food in the stands and fine cuisine in the luxury boxes. It is also a major player in numerous convention and performing arts centers... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
US economy. A hands-on leader who has met with business owners in 36 states in the two years since President Barack Obama appointed her to head the US Small Business Administration (SBA), Mills has had many poignant encounters with people she View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Taking a Stand. Patagonia pulled its advertising from Facebook and has recently renewed its call on other firms to boycott the platform until Facebook can make sure its products do no harm. What would taking a stand look like for your... View Details