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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Putting the significance of the accomplishment into perspective, Bricklin's friend and Lotus Development Corporation founder Mitchell Kapor has likened the spreadsheet's impact on the computer era to the building of the transcontinental... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
because they don't live close to a physical distribution point or they are exposed to elevated risk of identity theft by carrying around a DD 214 when they do claim benefits. Correcting that injustice motivates me." The two founders... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
attending in person, some virtually—stepped into the shoes of a new case protagonist, Ziad Abi Chaker, the founder and CEO of a Lebanese recycling company, to understand the challenges he faces. Abi Chaker launched Cedar Environmental as... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
and resources to raise funds and organize vaccination efforts in 12 villages, reaching nearly 7,000 people with more vaccinations planned. —Akshay Navaladi (MBA 2013), founder of Healthskool Pharmacy, New Delhi. The company has been... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
ancient nation-state.” A number of HBS grads have contributed to the country’s success story, including Tal Keinan (MBA ’01), a cofounder of the nation’s first full-spectrum financial asset management firm, KCS Capital, and Tal Riesenfeld (MBA ’08), who is a View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
flash-sale site Gilt Groupe. Today, luxury shoppers, once uncertain about the Internet, see it as a way of “accessing special things,” Magnúsdóttir says. More Retail Revolutions Sparking the Flash Sale Gilt Groupe founders Alexis Maybank... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings. “Once the forecast failed to... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
programs. This summer, they also closed their first round of venture financing. Day Zero Diagnostics founders Jong Lee (MBA 1999), Miriam Huntley (PhD 2016), Doug Kwon, MD PhD (HMS faculty), Dougal Maclaurin (PhD 2016), and Melis Anahtar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
founder of Friendfactor (www.friendfactor.org), an enterprise that aims to mobilize a national grassroots movement to accelerate the achievement of full legal equality for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Americans. Last... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Sahlman discusses how Khan Academy, a global online education nonprofit, strives to balance founder Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) vision with the need to focus and scale. Prediction: How AI Will Affect Business, Work, and Life Bill Kerr speaks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
insurance for my kids? Are there other ways the social safety net can benefit startups? When we think about entrepreneurship, we tend to think about a founder or maybe a couple of partners. But they need a team, in many cases, if they... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm that focuses on rural America. Since 1986, Agracel, based in Effingham, Illinois, has completed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
A FEEL-GOOD HIGH: Founder Sarah Endline with sweetriot’s tiny treats. As a girl in Auburn, Michigan, a small town two hours north of Detroit, Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) grew up with a clear understanding of the link between crops in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus William A. Sahlman presented the Entrepreneurship Award to Michael Martin (MBA 2015), founder and CEO of RapidSOS, an advanced emergency technology company that powers safety, security, health, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley