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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Start-Up Contest for Alumni
Got an idea for a start-up? You could win a $25,000 cash prize from HBS. The inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest aims to draw attention to the fact that over half of HBS graduates describe themselves as entrepreneurs at some point in... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 30 Oct 2020
- News
Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups
that “(a) part of it is me, but the big part is the team you assemble and where the market has gone. ...And it’s investors that believed in me as a first-time entrepreneur who was a doctor without business or tech experience.” CarePort... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Bowes believes has exhibited all three of those qualities throughout his career as an entrepreneur and an HBS professor. “I have great respect for Howard and all that he has done for the School,” says Bowes, noting that he sees Stevenson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Spring Training for Startups
April was a good month for startups at HBS, with three events connecting expert entrepreneurs with student and alumni founders. The HBS Rock 100 Entrepreneurs' Summit featured conversations with industry leaders like Care.com founder and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Making a Difference
Passion for aiding entrepreneurs and supporting women’s issues brought four members of the MBA Class of 2012 recognition as winners of the Dean’s Award. Established in 1997, the award celebrates students’ positive impact on the School and... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
three-month program, held at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, was designed to move entrepreneurs out of their silos and encourage them to work together to identify a worldwide problem and a high-impact solution. Through... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
science is failure,” says Sontag. “The key is picking the people with the right character, who are going to stick with it. If something doesn’t work out, they move on to a new project and continue to be creative.” If he sounds like a venture capitalist vetting an View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
Altiostar Networks, Inc. Dahod outside his Tewksbury, MA, office “The best way to deliver on shareholder value is not to focus on shareholder value. Focus on meeting customer needs and taking care of employees. That leads to success.” A serial View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Entrepreneur Of The Year, Financial Services 2013 James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences opens at Eckerd College Tom James's entrepreneurial bent was apparent early on. An avid coin collector, at the age of 15 he began to buy and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
themselves as entrepreneurs. “There’s a misunderstanding that you have to be from a certain place, to look a certain way, to have a certain type of background training, to have one type of personality—all these misconceptions about what the prototypical classic View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic between male investors and female entrepreneurs seeking their funding. Looking to the crowd liberates companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
in the world of ventures.” Uncertainty and the unknowable, moving in risk-filled directions, all at a fast clip. Says Sahlman: “All I was trying to do was to understand, How do entrepreneurs make decisions? How do the people who give them... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Two years ago, if you bet me five bucks that I was going to be a school-teacher, I would have taken that bet in a heartbeat.” When his students question the relevance of precalculus to their future lives, entrepreneur turned high-school... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
sustainability entrepreneur with a background in marketing and environmental management, laid out the facts of the global climate crisis and made clear that the speed of drone reforesting can play a critical role in stemming a climate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
Reserve Bank of Chicago’s imposing building to discuss with thought leaders and entrepreneurs the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector of the American Midwest. “Climate change forces us to confront the relationships... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Himalayan climbing team, the executive director of an innovative low-income senior housing community, and the founder of a pioneering youth basketball program for girls. Examples of “fixing it” also come from the journeys of entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2015
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Alumni Notch 12 Spots on Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ Lists
2011) – Shoptiques Finance http://www.forbes.com/30under30/#/finance Brij Khurana (MBA 2011) – PIMCO Robert Klaber (MBA 2012) – Parnassus Investments Eli Nagler (MBA 2012) – Blackstone Group Social Entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Finance