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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
survey notes, more than half of HBS alumni launch a business. In this conversation, professors Tom Eisenmann and Bill Kerr discuss HBS’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which empowers students to create an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
millions for pandemic relief, used their networks and resources to support small businesses, and created entirely new enterprises to respond to a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
polyglot country. He raised $1 million, primarily from American investors he knew personally. In March 2011, he opened a small clinic (two chairs) in Delhi to serve as a pilot project. He set out to vertically integrate all aspects of the... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 08 Oct 2014
- News
Making a Difference
small – with your business; in your field or your community; among your friends or fellow alumni; or in other ways. For some examples, see below. Please be sure to write LARGE and BOLD letters so your... View Details
Keywords: The Harvard Campaign
- Profile
Ari Medoff
measured. "Half the joint degree students participated," Ari says. "It demonstrates the self-motivation and teamwork the program engenders." In his own future, Ari sees parallel paths in the pursuit of public service.... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
small staff of project managers who act as single points of contact (SPOCs) for the projects. SPOCs are confronted with a broad range of projects rich in scientific complexity and technical issues, well... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
the short and medium terms to feel confident again in China’s stability? A: Investors are prone to panic, as we’ve seen; they tend to rush for the exits. In reality, China is generally in a position to... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
that may be attractive for a small capital pool become much more difficult to implement with more capital under management. This problem is most acute when investing in entrepreneurial projects and private... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Small loans, big impact: “I’ve seen firsthand the impact that a $50 loan can have on a mother in Ecuador. It helps provide the circumstances for these women to become the backbone of society.” Aha moment: “I left my last corporate job... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
small can outsmart the large. Exhibit A is the story of Intuit, the financial software provider. Intuit has continued to dominate Microsoft in its niche through intensifying focus, defining the competitive space, listening to customers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
country. “What we do is invest in businesses that are growing faster than the GDP, which is climbing now because of the recovery, but traditionally, it’s been 2 to 3 percent over the last 10 to 20 years,” Perez says. “We want to bring our skill set View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing
SELCO’s Approach SELCO is a social enterprise that operates with a mission to make energy access equitable and transformative through microgrids. The organization’s approach revolves around three core... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
small town like Calhoun, Langford says. That’s more or less how he and his family came to foster a young child whose parents couldn’t care for her. The girl’s father, jailed on minor drug charges, was known... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Hungary to help spot and address the needs of Ukrainian refugees. Bleier has used to network to find a family with two young children, who are being housed at his home in Vienna. “It's a small help, but we... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a View Details