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- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
leaders this year. Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE Alumni Co-Presidents Paul Donaher (MBA 1981), Founder and Principal at Paul Donaher Advisory, and John Davis (MBA 2020), Director of Growth and Partnerships at Clarity Pediatrics Paul... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
generation of family. “That’s often the preferred method,” says founder and CEO Rick Bauerly (MBA 1996). But when that’s not possible, then we want to be the next-best alternative, which is a group of family businesses with similar... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Photography by Susan Young “If you’re a brain geek, this is the best time in history to be alive,” says Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010), founder and managing partner of NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience startup accelerator. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
(MBA 1975), president of Women’s World Banking; Rena Clark (MBA 1990), chair and COO of QVS, Inc.; Judith R. Haberkorn (111th AMP), retired president of consumer sales and service at Verizon; Andrea Caren Silbert (MBA 1992), founder and... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
a few years ago, thanks to a marquee investment: In July 2017, Softbank’s Vision Fund led a $200 million funding round into Plenty, a San Francisco–based vertical farming startup. “That really moved the needle,” she says. Don Goodwin, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
when the future of the business hinged on a single decision. For Sarina Russo (OPM 28, 1999), founder and president of the Sarina Russo Group of education, employment services, and property companies, that moment came in 1993 when she... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
JULY 12 The HBS Club of India recently launched an “Alumni in Action” campaign, which highlights stories of members who have led pandemic relief efforts. The first two alumni highlighted are Akshay Navaladi (HBS MBA 2013), founder of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
once it is in there, it is my belief that it will give back to the health care system. Patients, doctors, hospitals, government, insurance companies, and researchers will all make better decisions in health care with better information.” Food: Hype and Health Ayr Muir... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
business. We talked to customers, learned what they needed, and built solutions for them. We grew the product from there. None of the four founders took a salary in the first year. It was a real challenge, but we were very committed.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
That was a great moment. Morrell: Nicole was no stranger to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship when she launched Energicity in 2015. Until its IPO, she had been a part of US-based OPower, a software-as-a-service company that helped utilities engage customers.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Nevertheless, Kraus believes "the entrepreneurial path is a great place for women to make career rules the way they see them." To help young Harvard women get started on entrepreneurial paths, Kraus, a former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS, facilitates the Women's... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
David Benitez (OPM 46, 2014) is founder and president of Intelligent Mexican Marketing (IMM Latino), a company that provides a brand-building platform in the United States' Hispanic market by being the largest connectors of Latino... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
the business just after their father's death and following a foray into entrepreneurship. "A drawback to family business," Barco observes, "is that the founder is often a dominant personality, like my father was, so the children-you might... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
this authenticity-challenged modern age. Ask Wilson why he undertakes this grueling event and he will tell you that what drives him is an educational mission. Wilson is the founder and president of sitesALIVE!, a nonprofit that has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
flight, hop onboard, conduct business in the private cabin, attend their meeting, and fly home later the same day. The same would hold true for a Boston–New York traveler using the area’s smaller, regional airports. Leiman, Ogden, and Herp, View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s. "Both Bain and the SLOC were dispirited organizations suffering from leadership crises," Romney observes. "Both had financial problems and needed new clients. And both were negatively affected... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
nine associated firms specializing in the manufacture and repair of turbine engines for the aircraft and other industries. But in addition to his business career, Twaalfhoven has long carried the flag for the cause of entrepreneurial initiatives in Europe. The View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
paycheck,” says Thakor, author and founder of MoneyZen, a financial education consultancy. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic, and the wealth gap is even more extreme.” Women, on average,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
"War Stories: Success Criteria for Business in Greater China." On the panel were several veterans of the Chinese commercial battlefield. "I believe the future is in China," said a solemn Thomas Kirkwood, director and CEO of China General, Ltd., and View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes