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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
image by John Ritter Twenty-five years after the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) was launched at HBS, the Bulletin sits down with professors on the forward edge of the movement: Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004), who developed the EC course... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
(MBA 2005), Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) and Jayamin Pelpola (MBA 2010). The firm hopes to capitalize on the current development drive and rapid economic growth taking place in Sri Lanka. Based in Colombo, York Street Partners was launched... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
services. “We’re working to introduce these technologies to clients in their 60s and 70s. These are people who don’t go to bed with their phones beside them.” Such technology, she says, includes screen readers for smart phones, for example, or the ability to use the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
founder and former CEO of Ovia Health Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Nix Courtesy Meridith Unger Cass Back in 2016, Meridith Unger Cass (MBA 2010) and her team at Nix... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni Confront a World of Pandemic Problems Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, HBS alumni across the globe have been stepping up to respond to the crisis in numerous ways. Some led the way in the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
product attempts that missed the mark on health outcomes—including a prototype of a smart bike and apps for fitness and calorie tracking. “In order to have a healthy outcome, our users need to adopt a healthy lifestyle—daily,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane is business View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Initiative, which was launched in 2005. Its mission is to foster and promote faculty research, support the development of high-impact educational programs, and create an interconnected health care community. Slavin has served on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
profile for Republic-listed companies different, but the platform is also selling products and services less likely to resonate with what Hofmann calls the “traditional white-male VC.” She holds up the example of the black-owned startup theCut, an View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
inexplicable skyrocketing of prices of tulip bulbs that ultimately crashed back to earth after a wild ride of erratic up-and-down price swings,” he says. What is different about the meme-stock era is technology, which has given investors ease of access to platforms... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Tools “The good news is that small businesses are resilient. Many of them are already using apps driven by AI and algorithms to pivot their business models,” Mills adds. In her book, she coined the term “small business utopia” to describe... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
epitome of the Aston Martin Grand Touring car. Comfortable for two, it has few frills and a high level of luxury and yet is capable of heart-stopping performance and superb handling on the racetrack. Candee examines in detail the history of every DB4GT manufactured:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
observations or ask the hard questions of hopeful entrepreneurs. “I want you to think about whether you really are an entrepreneur,” he says to a young woman who hopes to launch a mirror makeup app using facial recognition technology. And... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
talent, you find great investments. Through that talent is where investment comes in and you can begin to see examples. Microsoft just opened up a development center in Nigeria and Kenya, five years ago that may not have happened. And... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
thinking about Mars as a way for NASA to show that we still have it.” (courtesy Lewis Braxton III) The agency is currently developing the necessary capabilities to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025—sort of a trial run—and to Mars in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar to Apple Health). The... View Details