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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) A Network for Life “We were just a group of friends, bringing our skill sets from our jobs, to help Avi,” says Amy Yamner Jenkins (MBA 2006), who became very close to classmate Avi Kremer in the weeks after his diagnosis with ALS and helped him... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have provided an important source of seed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
battery life, and ability to store hundreds of titles, the devices launched the e-book revolution and transformed book publishing in arguably the most significant way since Gutenberg's printing press. Russ Wilcox discusses his new... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
case studies she read at HBS, which is why she often refers to her role at B Lab simply as that of a “storyteller.” Her own story is filled with determination to find a path. Raised in Stratford, New Jersey, Coupounas was the youngest, by... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
searchable way to access them. Leboyer could have joined a havruta, the rabbinical version of a study group, to help him navigate the corpus, but as managing director of the Venture Lab for Software and AI at the Technical University of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
ecosystem which today includes the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab and Launch Lab X GEO—were planted during his tenure. In a University widely known for “every tub on its own... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival rates. Two companies at the Pagliuca Harvard Life View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
uncomfortable feeling,” says McPherron. With that in mind, the center is also launching Rock 100 Councils to serve as an ongoing forum for entrepreneurs to connect with other local alumni experiencing some of the same challenges. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Since its founding in 2011, the Harvard Innovation Labs (HIL)—a collaboration between HBS and Harvard University—has nurtured some 2,500 ventures founded by students, alumni, and faculty members from all 13 schools at Harvard. Current... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
discussion of “Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A)” “They’re trying to make a life-or-death decision through a forum that’s not equipped to make decisions of this magnitude. There are so many players involved; they’re... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
director of joint degree programs at HBS. It takes full advantage of greater Boston’s position as one of the world’s largest biotech clusters. The joint degree integrates the essential lessons learned at the lab bench and in the corner... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
CEO and cofounder Michael Martin (MBA 2015). Through the three labs—the i-lab, Launch Lab X, and the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab—students and alumni can access a network of peers at Harvard as well as faculty... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
service-oriented learning trip to Tōhoku, a region devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear explosion. It launched what would become an annual Immersive Field Course (IFC) in Japan. When the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Innovation Lab opens on Western Avenue. (Announced last October, the i-lab will serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration across Harvard and beyond.) In the classroom, Eisenmann’s new course, Launching... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
picture-framing shop on the East Coast. After graduating, she started a custom photo lab in Cambridge and in 1977 began raising a family. Lang returned to high tech in 1982, when she joined Symbolics, the emerging leader in computer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
organization, which has helped to facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a high school computer lab in a neighborhood in West Bengal that was a site of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
brilliant, so they’ll always have new ideas, but if you can’t focus them on what you need to achieve as a company, you’re toast.” Grace Under Pressure: Daniel Gulati and Vivian Weng competed in the contest as first-year students and View Details