women entrepreneurs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

business skills, she decided to fill out her business education by attending HBS, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar. Scher's career has already garnered accolades. She was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California in... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

28 May 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic

battles for traction and respect. “We’ve made progress in Indonesia when it comes to gender equality, but we still have so much work to do,” she says, adding that entrepreneurship is one avenue for achieving equity. Kamdani, who founded the Angel Investment Network... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Management

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Corporation, where he was involved in product planning for their Music Video on Demand software. So how did an aspiring entrepreneur with an engineering degree become a rock star at Harvard Business School? Easy. He just asked. "At the... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

throne. Enemies plot horrific evils against the hero, even as two passionate women seek him for their own, in a tale of intrigue, revenge, power, and the unquenchable, all-consuming passions of love. Last Bell: Breaking the Gridlock in... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Cambridge shelter for abused women and children. In addition, while working at CSFB, Brown began mentoring and supporting a high-school girl, Mary Sessoms, and continues doing so now that Sessoms is in college. “I’ve received significant... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and entrepreneur Larry Gulko to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

business lending market. This ambitious book grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles, and the policy implications for regulation. Air-Crazy, Too: More Fascinating... View Details

19 Dec 2024
News

The Musts of 2024

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

relative handful of African Americans and women on campus daily confronted cultural problems that could not be solved with a slide rule and pencil. READ MORE Steve Belkin Eve Benton Mike Feeley Ed Mathias Joe O'Donnell READ MORE Steve... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

and other forms of amusement and recreation, no matter how much leisure we may have. After men and women have spent respectively an estimated five and eight hours a week on the care of the body and personal appearance, after routine... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

published poetry and their joint love for music. After a tragic shipwreck tore them apart, Kate’s life dramatically shifted focus. She waged a battle against misogyny to help provide women with the education they deserved. Compelling and... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Andrea Silbert

people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

29 Jun 2019
News

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

business owners are working in the informal sector. “So this, for us, represents an untapped opportunity. And we believe that by equipping those women entrepreneurs with the right skills, the right know-how,... View Details

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

and out of the tech sector. She was cofounder of MTV Europe; CEO in charge of launching AOL's Entertainment Asylum; and entrepreneur-in-residence for Softbank Technology Ventures. Being a female entrepreneur herself, she figured there... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

that for projects that I have. The rest of it, we're doing a turnaround of an 8,000-person company, and I need people who can add value. So I had this amazing job for two years where I had to figure out my own job inside this company. I learned how to be an View Details

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate... View Details