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- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
Executive Director Mike Roberts, the lineup lost no time in getting down to brass tacks with the SRO student crowd of would-be entrepreneurs. Paris Wallace (MBA ’07) of Good Start Genetics noted that the BPC is an effective way to meet... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
technology will play a role in a new initiative that has grown out of the strong interest many of our students have in entrepreneurship and high tech-businesses. This January, our Intensive Field Study Program will allow students to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
That this has been a period that's also been helpful for them. How is that so? Make that case. Angela: Well, innovation happens usually out of necessity. We're seeing that across the board with every business, with every industry—and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
It's the night before the presidential inauguration and Washington's cavernous National Cathedral is packed to capacity. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as seven young men walk down an aisle and take their places on a center stage... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
built, even as she and her brothers look ahead. With ambitious plans for the future—including a combined public tasting room and retail outlet set to open in 2020—the next generation is finding ways to put their own stamp on the vineyard’s history while rising above... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
Chinese authority. In his welcoming remarks, Dean Kim B. Clark brought alumni and guests up to date on some recent initiatives at the School in areas such as technology, entrepreneurship, and global management. He also thanked the assembled View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
News. And as soon as he graduated in 1953, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became an officer. Fast forward to 1959. Just out of Harvard Business School, Donaldson, 28, was rooming with Dan Lufkin (MBA ’57) in New York and working in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
BlackRock. David Baum (MBA 1996), an entrepreneur and early-stage venture capitalist, pointed out that when Larry Fink cofounded BlackRock, he had just lost $100 million at First Boston. His failure was the foundation upon which BlackRock... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
time. They spun Aliro out of Harvard’s Quantum Information Science Lab, then incubated it at the Harvard i-lab. Ricotta came on board in 2019. A seasoned tech CEO, he had already launched a number of startups into emerging networking... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
of vehicles. In each town that we passed through there were crowds milling about without much purpose. The whole scene was decaying. As we drove into Baghdad, you could see that the place was quite a wreck, marked by burnt-down buildings.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
The similarity is about the need to make great first impressions, to really stand out in a crowded marketplace and figure out a way to find a personal brand and create that... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
we had stayed with the old model, we would have run out of money. I distinctly remember advice I heard from investors and founders who had been through another crisis, the 2008 recession: Whatever you did in the past, forget it. That's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
infrastructure. "The question now is, at what point can we go over and host a game or something more formal than a clinic." Brazil First office opened: 2012 (Rio de Janeiro) The NBA held its first game in South America last October, with a sellout View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
So began the legend of STARt-up WARS Episode One: The Venture Menace, this year's HBS Show, held in early April before capacity crowds in Burden Auditorium. Spoofing the Star Wars films, STARt-up WARS poked fun at the "growing divide"... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
grew, Coup and Kim sought out the most durable but lightweight materials. The packs, for instance, feature the same high-tech fiber used to make bulletproof vests. “It’s stronger than steel by weight and prevents the pack from tearing,”... View Details