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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
LSP core team. Explains Pisano, “The purpose of this initiative is to create some mechanisms for collaboration and integration across disciplines and among faculty, as well as to connect with outside constituencies.” In this way, the LSP, which is View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
embarked on a career as a successful venture capitalist. Then, in 1980, the role of entrepreneurship at HBS changed dramatically with the appointment of Dean John H. McArthur. In one of his first acts as Dean, McArthur elevated the status of entrepreneurship as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 grant to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
says. While in high school, he and his father invested in an apartment building that Peter managed while attending Ohio State University. After briefly exploring a career in medicine, he decided to return to his entrepreneurial roots and... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
and outputs. Even so, art can have considerable value to business as an investment and that requires a healthy supply chain, that is, a healthy art community. “It is the classics that today have the greatest value,” says Tetsuji Shibayama... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
especially given the substantial investment the students are making in terms of their own time and money. For all three stages, we are deeply grateful to HBS alumni who generously support our financial aid programs as they pay it forward... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is giving a tax break, it should be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and know the things that you need to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
to promote the growth of the city's economy, was asked by the city and state to take over management of these donations. In turn, an NYCP subsidiary, the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), took charge of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
1997; since that time, it has overseen six funds totaling more than $1.1 billion. With the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continuing to batter the industry, Depatie takes a clear-eyed look at what the future might hold for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with their yellow Lab, half a dozen chickens, and a few sheep. While Adams has kept his hand in the business world through Vineyard Ventures, a small, private equity fund that has invested in companies as... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
are the top two or three things you tell them? MDP: We think there are three things that groups have to get right. So the first is, the state has to develop a policy that is good for the employer. In this case, that's school districts allowing them to access the View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how countries and businesses... View Details