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- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
International Monetary Fund looked at “the deeply institutionalized economic interdependence” that existed among these states and assumed that continued close economic cooperation would be “an obvious necessity.” Similarly, many View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Bridging Past, Present, and Future
Roberts & Co., attributes its success “not only to the life-changing experience many of us had as students, but also to the demonstrated impact HBS has on driving change in the world today.” Whether their classmates are giving back to HBS... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
the University of California, Olivier set his sights on HBS. He was attracted by the School’s reputation, the alumni network, and the location. “I was born and raised on the West Coast, so Boston was a foreign part of the world to me,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
Karen and Sanjeev (MBA 1986) Mehra Karen and Sanjeev Mehra (MBA 1986) perceive both great opportunities and serious challenges at the nexus of business, science, and engineering. Their endowment of the Mehra Family HBS/SEAS Collaboration View Details
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact Amazon has exerted on the... View Details
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George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About
Baker was a graduate of Harvard College, where he taught economics from 1928 until 1936, when he joined the HBS faculty. He served in the army during World War II, and throughout his Harvard career, held a variety of influential... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
William H. Draper III (MBA 1954), one of America’s first venture capitalists, financed hundreds of high-technology companies. He also was chosen by President Reagan to be president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where he helped to sustain... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Girls for Humanity (FGFH), the mission of which was to provide humanitarian services and funding to communities in need across the world. Hanazawa mobilized the global fashion industry by soliciting excess merchandise from luxury brands... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
recognized the river as a “Heritage River” in part because of its importance to the inland waterways that facilitated the fur trade for centuries. In 1989, Ontario established this waterway as the French River Provincial Park. Water is one of Canada’s most important... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
three things that are very interesting. One is that it is enabling innovators, often user innovators, to get the funding they need, to do what they need and scale it. Before, you had to go to venture capitalists. Now, you can rely on the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
is the world's largest, most complete, and best-preserved representative of her species attracts many dinosaur-obsessed youngsters to the Field, it also brings paleontologists from around the world who can conduct research on her actual... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Support for a Common Theme
Ralph James (MBA 1982) here with Patty and Lincoln Benet (both MBA 1989) at The Harvard Business School Campaign Regional Event in London. "HBS is part of the extraordinary Harvard community that serves the world in equally positive ways,... View Details
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Mike Maples Jr.
investing but when he looked around, he saw a gap in the market. There was a raft of startups that wanted to raise seed or early funding but were not ready for a five million dollar round, which seemed to be the minimum that Silicon... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details