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- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
Above: Hulme on the rooftop of Google’s London offices (photo by Jon Enoch) What the design-thinking approach at IDEO taught me is that perfection is the enemy of progress. Great entrepreneurs realize that any business is a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
GE among them. As if that weren’t enough, it noted that even the newest occupant of the Oval Office, George W. Bush (MBA 1975), “spent some time hanging at Harvard.” With HBS producing so many entrepreneurs in recent years, Fortune... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
It could have passed for a sorority reunion, as a distinguished group of enthusiastic and motivated women assembled for a group photo. But the membership requirements for this sisterhood were stiff. The 28 entrepreneurs who came to HBS in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
absolutely central to the ultimate success of those ventures. As the cost of starting a company has gone down, and so many first-timers and much younger entrepreneurs are starting companies, how do you identify, in a 25-year-old without... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic Silbert has followed her parents’ example of helping others,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
trust of the communities they serve.” For the Oregon Community Partners, that has meant teaming up with Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), a micro-lending organization providing entrepreneurs of color with opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier this year of roughly 140 alumni... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
Vivian Wu (MBA 2000) manages Zuckerberg Education Ventures, an impact investing initiative that supports education entrepreneurs who are developing scalable businesses that will improve learning outcomes and increase access to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
Gerald (HBS 2014). "But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an entrepreneur here in the 'other' United States, far from the two coasts." At summer's end, Gerald and fellow students Hicham Mhammedi Alaoui,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
zones while she was a student here. Her first book, 2012’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young female Afghan entrepreneur who built a thriving business under Taliban rule. Her 2015 book, Ashley’s War,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the companies that we fund. They're the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship. At RICE, we help Black View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
To further Rakuten’s global presence, Mikitani established English as the official language for the company’s 10,000 employees worldwide. His “Englishnization” initiative became the subject of an HBS case study. Mikitani barely knew the word View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
million gift to the University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), which also funded the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Program at HBS. The program connects recent alumni with Accelerator projects, offering... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
than jump into unfamiliar sectors where you don’t have all the answers. That leaves an opening for entrepreneurs to seize the new opportunities and displace you. It also makes it harder to find new ways around the barriers that prevent... View Details