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- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
often-overlooked aspect of poverty. Feingold himself didn’t understand the need until 2010, when he and his wife were discussing how to celebrate their children’s second and fourth birthdays. At the time, Feingold was a portfolio View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
business expertise, women also bring a very different set of emotional skills. Stewart points to studies that have found that women directors facilitate the discussion of difficult issues by forcing boards to confront the tough questions. When she talks about her View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments. "Nueva Ventures had a View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton, Massachusetts. “At 19, I helped... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is the newest addition to the growing portfolio of innovation facilities on Western Avenue in Allston, joining the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which opened in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
support to each other.” That ongoing, dynamic network of support among the first alumnae of the program, says Frei, has become the foundation of a larger role for the Women on Boards course in the future. “I think we will eventually have an Executive Education View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
and for eleven years at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. as an institutional salesman and portfolio manager before launching his first entrepreneurial venture, Feeley & Willcox, Inc., in 1986. Part of that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore. Faculty Books Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit Portfolio... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs
Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along... View Details