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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Malaysia, earned an engineering degree in England and spent fifteen years in the corporate world, first with Hewlett-Packard and then with Apple Computer. In 1991, he was part of the management team that founded Premisys Communications, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
partner. In what proved to be a fortuitous stroke, Cohen then recruited Alan Patricof, a pioneering venture capitalist based in New York, to join the partnership. Under Patricof’s influence, the firm shifted focus from advising to investing in View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
marketing and sales experience with Fortune 500, midsized, and start-up companies, Jones also has a background in education, having taught marketing as an adjunct lecturer at Bentley University outside Boston. Most recently, he worked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
50-Plus Years of Entrepreneurship I was disturbed by the June Bulletin's infographic showing that HBS had been teaching entrepreneurship for only 50 years (page 7). As a student at HBS, I took Management of New Enterprises, an excellent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. Tripsas notes, “Whenever a firm introduces a truly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend (MBA ’84), View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
Former President & CEO, eBay Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Princeton University, 1977 A.B., Economics SELECTED PREVIOUS POSITIONS Hasbro, General Manager FTD , CEO Disney, Senior Vice President Bain... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (MIT Press) U.S. venture capital firms have grown dramatically over the last two decades, nurturing a host of start-ups -- including Apple Computer, Genentech, Intel, Lotus,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik led the formation of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, an informal group that attracted a committed corps of like-minded students. They gathered weekly to discuss start-up ideas and seek... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how to build a View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
Flying has it all — science, freedom, beauty, and adventure,” says Robert A. Hamilton (MBA 1985), by way of quoting Charles Lindbergh. “I wholeheartedly agree.” These days, Hamilton is getting huge doses of those four elements at Seattle Avionics, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Strength In Numbers: Andrew Rosenthal, Jess Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, a student-led group with the goal of increasing the number of successful new businesses launched from HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
intriguing new book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (Twelve), written by Dan Senor (MBA ’01) and Saul Singer, a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. Most Israelis in their late teens serve several years in the elite... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
microinsurance market. She finished HBS as a Leadership Fellow, launching Accion International’s microinsurance program in 2005. A follow-up project at Capital One, introducing prepaid debit cards to unbanked customers in the United States, gave Kapila her first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
also differentiated by percentage of cacao solids, from 50 percent to 70 percent. In her HBS application essays, Endline wrote of wanting to start a business but instead went to Yahoo! as a product manager after graduating. “The company... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
Through Jana Care, a start-up he cofounded in Bangalore, India, Sidhant Jena (SPH 2011, MBA 2011) is building affordable diagnostics and evidence-based lifestyle coaching programs on mobile phones to make diabetes View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Meg's World
Award on September 18. And she landed the No. 2 spot on Fortune’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” (October 13, 2003). Whitman garnered all this attention the old-fashioned way: She earned it. During her five years at the helm of eBay, the company has... View Details