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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
infertile women to conceive. Excess fertilized eggs are routinely discarded by clinics at the conclusion of the in vitro process. Opponents say such practices are immoral because they destroy human life; advocates assert it is immoral to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the death of View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
country—something that had not been legal until Title III of the JOBS Act went into effect the year. Using Republic’s website or app, anyone with $10 could invest in a highly vetted startup. Moreover, women View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
male VCs and founders can play a role in leveling the playing field, too, as more women enter the sector. “The top women entrepreneurs really want to work with the top View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Saigal (MBA 2014), founder and CEO of Kudos, a sustainable diaper company, and Sarina Siddhanti Garg (MBA 2015), founder of the South Asian formal clothing retailer Riya Collective. The View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
last two years: “(O)ver 35 new female general partners were added in 2018; 200 female venture capitalists and founders delivered more than 1,000 hours of mentorship; upwards of 1,000 founders pledged their... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
“clubby” exclusivity and a lack of clear funding pathways for outsiders, in particular, Black and women founders. A variety of solutions were considered, including Glynn’s approach to funding via public grants, and Ferrine’s approach at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
selling them. The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Naa-Sakle Akuete (MBA 2014), CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Angels Conference Tackles Post-Pandemic Investing and Entrepreneurship The global pandemic has reshaped the world, and investors and founders are full of questions about the future of startups. To find... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
scholarships to study in Canada and the United States. Recently named a “Global Visionary” by the Swiss bank UBS, Balares is founder and CEO of Womensphere Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women’s advancement in leadership,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
CEO looks like," noted Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92) , founder and CEO of the Boston-based Center for Women & Enterprise, which coordinated the New England event along with the National Women's Business... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
opened its first campus in 2008 and its second in 2011. “There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever,” says the founder and chairman of FiBA Group, a multibillion-dollar portfolio of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
America; Anna Lloyd, president of C200; and Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and executive director of the Center for Women & Enterprise. A number of sessions focused on entrepreneurship. Susan Willet... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
Sion Tesone (OPM 43, 2013) is the founder & CEO of Amani Enterprises, LLC, which operates the for-profit social enterprise TISSINI. In this interview, he talks about TISSINI’s aims to empower Hispanic women... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Miwa Seki (left) and Yumiko Murakami Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui shared the same birthday month and year, so they started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic: The View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an... View Details