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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
on hand at this year's event to offer some words of wisdom to those following in their footsteps. Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu (both MBA '99) have raised $48 million in venture capital to fund their online marketplace for industrial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
and net assets of $4.6 billion, with over 119 million protected acres in thirty countries, WSJ.com reported (June 10, 2010). Two months after Tercek assumed his post, the recession hit, delivering a powerful blow to the funding that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Appointed Managing Director, Alcan, Limerick, Ireland 2002 Appointed CEO, Alcan Primary Metal Group 2006 Named one of “50 Women to Watch” by WSJ 2007 Appointed Chief Executive, Anglo American 2008 Implements “zero harm” policy to improve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in nearly 30 years. (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson (MBA 1981) was working at NASA in the late 1970s when the agency’s funding... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by side with entrepreneurs, he has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
the development, production, and distribution of orthopedic instruments and implants. Involved in a number of HBS initiatives in the past, Wyss has facilitated the development of environmental management cases for the MBA Program and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
because they seem collegial than it is to hire someone different.” “The venture industry is a really great job for women—and for men too—because it’s right on the cutting edge. You’re shaping the future.” —Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993), founder and View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students edited by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs, an angel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
come together to plan an event or activity that will recognize and continue their ongoing commitment to social enterprise — a history that includes efforts as diverse as volunteer consulting, fundraising, community events and programs, and scholarships that have View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
business school cases feature male executives. In the fall, a new initiative was launched to support the development of case studies featuring women business leaders in key roles. The effort, the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 Fund at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
fund would help restart the hard-hit New Orleans business community. Several faculty also made the trip to New Orleans, including Professor Herman (“Dutch”) Leonard, whose work on crisis management led him... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
30,000 Indian businesses and created nearly 1,000 jobs. “It’s really structured in the exact same way as a small venture capital or private equity firm,” says Chorengel. “It’s a proven model—you get a group of talented fund View Details