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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
with an open mind.” A Cincinnati native, Schock's lilting Midwestern voice is peppered with moments of laughter as she recounts the work experiences that helped shape her communications skills. Before she enrolled at HBS, Henkel/Cognis Chemical Corporation sent Schock... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, Willie Woods (MBA 1993) was... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
York, where in September 2009 he enrolled in a fashion-marketing program at the Parsons School of Fashion. Since completing the program in December 2010, Heffernan has divided his time between angel View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
to the School’s continuing success,” said Roe Stamps, who in 1984 cofounded Summit Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm that has raised over $5.5 billion in capital and invested in more than 250 businesses. Baker Library,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
integrated, with cards made in a facility Lovepop owns in Vietnam, which allows for greater flexibility. The company is doubling its revenues quarter over quarter and reported a $1.4 million run rate in late 2015. After some small initial fundraising, in December it... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
proceeds go toward the club’s high-impact programs, including pro-bono consulting through Community Partners, workforce development through the Skills Gap Initiative, entrepreneurship through the regional Alumni New Venture Competition and HBS Alumni View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
medicine—and in Jarzabek’s passion for it, but, he recalls, “there were a couple of parts missing for me.” Jarzabek was mission-driven, had the analytical and strategy skills a startup needs, but he didn’t have the medical experience and fundraising know-how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
do their job for free. No tycoon, no matter how loaded, civic-minded, and/or self-medicated, will bankroll meaningful newsgathering — and all its bureaus, labor relations, and, yes, office supplies — just for giggles. And without View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
sleek black paint job and just 16 hand-stitched leather seats. Its routes run from private terminals, often at smaller metropolitan airports—such as Van Nuys in Los Angeles and Farnborough near London—to vacation destinations including... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
But that still represents only a tiny fraction of the thousands of terawatt-hours the WPTO predicts could be generated by tidal and wave technology in the United States, where investment in emerging marine-energy tech lags far behind that... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
Clubs News Clubs News “For entrepreneurs to succeed, they must stay humble.” This was just one of the takeaways from the HBS Club of Chicago’s (HBSCC) recent conversation with Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of investment firm PSP... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
investing in space is going to take off even more? What do you think needs to happen, if anything, before that occurs? Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux: That's a really interesting question because on one hand there is an enormous amount of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
space for their two-person team. Now LS is getting queries from $100 million mega brands. “These are companies that invest a lot in design to make their sites beautiful but they’re not functional in a meaningful way, and they want to know... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
100 jobs. Many of them, specifically in Senegal, have been able to raise funding both from the public sector and also from private investors, angel investors, and VC investors. “Now, when you look at the private sector on the continent,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley