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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
consider, however, only one will win their support. For the select few startups that pass through Idanta's screen - some thirty companies that have created more than 40,000 jobs since Dunn founded the firm... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
business program at the age of 16. Initially, Ferguson was against the idea of continuing on to get his MBA. “I thought I was going to be an entrepreneur and didn’t want to spend all that money,” he explains. Seeing the effect of HBS on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
it is turning our land, from sea to shining sea, into a sour jungle, noisy, dirty, gritty, and infinitely depressing.” In MacDonald’s fiction, that inherent tension is front and center when he depicts View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
recalls, “and I brought up what Deward had said, and asked if he thought big ag had our Cherokee seeds and what we should do about it. “His answer was, ‘Yeah, they probably have them. But that doesn’t matter.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company was not yet a year old. It had launched just as key provisions from the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
people and businesses are finding that the two things we love most in the world—cars and cash in our pockets—are totally optional. By 2017 people will be disrupting the disrupters, because the world is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
processing. How we got the idea: My classmate and cofounder, Tracy Lawrence, and I were in our second year at HBS, and we were looking to start a business. Tracy’s parents were moving, and in the context of that move, we thought it would... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
marketing job at Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
globe, and how it can be reconceptualized without being universalized. Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job by Jeffrey J. Bussgang (Harvard Business Review Press) Bussgang offers... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
and I do product marketing for Hot Wheels at Mattel) and we have outsourced a lot of the business to partners that are incentivized to act on our behalf and have expertise that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
the announcement of his appointment as the School’s ninth Dean. A member of the HBS faculty since 1970, Light, 64, was named Acting Dean last August after the departure of Kim B. Clark. Summers noted that Light “has done an outstanding... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recalls. “At the end of the two-week program, all of the students had to present a business plan on their idea and that particular girl shined in her presentation. She had dedicated herself, and it was very fulfilling to see someone who... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
scientific and technological foundations of medical invention are already straining our existing institutions. By thoughtfully approaching business model innovation, we will be more successful in navigating... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne Lacroix, MBA 2011 Region: Canada These teams will make their final pitches to a panel of judges on April 25 and a winner and crowd favorite will be picked... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
had as an undergrad, going through what you call the rite of passage, end up becoming a business that you built at HBS? How did that insight lead into you founding BoldVoice? Anada Lakra: There were two kinds of paths which led me to it.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this... View Details