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- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
discussed (2). As recently as January 2024, the Government of India has discussed collaborating with France on small nuclear reactors, and the US government has indicated similar interest (3). A scenario involving an opening up of the nuclear sector View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
numbers of capital-efficient companies today face challenges in raising that next round of capital. "Today entrepreneurs have more access to their first couple of million dollars than they have had before," says Dorsen. "The challenge is... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
assessed classmates’ strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The surprise is that he was a Ph.D. scientist, not an MBA. And this was the team that won the MIT contest.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
that as consumers, we are tempted by a far greater number of brand choices that rotate much more frequently. I talk in the book about how, many years ago, I used to date a guy who was a fanatic about Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Well, back then, there were only a View Details
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John Rogers
opportunities in the field. I found that program at HBS. The required first year curriculum, coupled with the case method approach, created a powerful learning environment built upon the diverse backgrounds of my classmates. The elective... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
career: Simon still writes music and plays jazz piano. “I’ve recorded nine CDs and at one point performed a couple dozen times a year around the country. I was able to put at least one of my kids through college with my income as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
communities: “In one instance, I met a couple who, for the first time, owned the title to their newly rebuilt home. As a result, they had enough collateral to start a small business. That is the real change that makes what I do so... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
group champion for this unusual competition. Although he shies away from social events, Hellman and his wife of 47 years, Chris, are involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. He is chairman of the board of The Magnes Museum, and she has chaired the San Francisco... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
What I found out from that experience in Boston was that my sectionmates still liked me for who I was. A couple of them gave me some pretty good advice and it wasn't so much what I had, but who I was, that counted. I would encourage you... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
addressed a couple of these points when she said, "The fact that we can name so few leaders as readily as the ones cited in the article is because they are exceptions. There is no question that brilliant, strongly mission-driven... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
received some $180 million in venture funding. The startup lending industry is exciting for a couple of reasons, Mills says. One, these companies can provide online markets that might make it easier for borrowers and lenders to find each... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
leveling off after 2000 and, in the case of India, declining. What accounts for this trend, and what are the potential ramifications for U.S. technology formation in the future? A: Explaining these trends and their long-term implications will be a central theme of my... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
At the beginning of the year, corporate skullduggery seemed limited to one or two egregious examples. A couple of bad apples won't spoil the whole bunch, we said to ourselves. But in the past several months, rottenness may have achieved a... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
can be painfully slow and difficult—and the decade-long surge of refugees and asylum seekers has left staff members scrambling to make timely placements, Paulson says. The war in Ukraine, coupled with ongoing conflicts and instability in... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
initiative where a couple of HBS students volunteer each month to share anything in their lives to the broader HBS community. In commemoration of National Coming Out Day, individuals shared their coming out stories in their sections. Some... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
binging. Within one week students posted messages about direct air capture, emissions monitoring, and synthetic biology. Three days later one student asked “How are you all doing with your ventures? A couple of us have talked about a zoom... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Alto, California where she was an assistant to the director of the Food Research Institute at Stanford. The couple married in a simple ceremony in New York in 1930. Over the course of their long marriage, Edna would come to support... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
applications. “A couple of years later, we realized we were dealing with ongoing issues in the community which would not end with the pandemic,” says Kane. “We went back to the board and proposed that SBPI become a permanent part of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley