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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
to come onboard before any real money was committed. “An entrepreneur is constantly marketing the idea to investors, employees, and customers,” remarked Shukla, who launched a new company, RubiconSoft, following Rubric’s sale in 2000. Panelist Brigitte Baumann (AMP... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
says. “Sometimes, just being able to bounce around ideas with other founders late at night was exactly what we needed to move forward. The i-lab is an amazing place to nurture a startup.” “The creative problem-solving the i-lab fosters is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
illogical collective decisions we make.” —Dante Disparte (PLDA 6, 2009), founder and CEO, Risk Cooperative Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng “What I love about this novel—particularly given the amount of time I spend thinking about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
founder and co-chair, Carla Harris (MBA 1987), Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, and co-chair Alice Vilma (MBA 2007) Managing Director of the Multicultural Group at Morgan Stanley, told the virtual audience of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
business? “In the past, it seems like for many companies, the answer has been ‘no,’” says West. West and other HBS grads believe that’s the wrong answer. With the help of Andrea Hoffman, the founder and CEO of Culture Shift Labs, they are... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
to Save the World,” a case by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, featuring Olivia Lum, founder and CEO of Singapore-based Hyflux Group, one of the world’s leading desalination companies Tel Aviv: Various... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique shopping portal for customers. Thinking Inside... 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 Council. A study last July by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
2013), the founder and CEO of the Chinese electric startup WM Motor, puts the personal passenger vehicle market at around 28 million. Chinese consumers bought nearly half of all electric plug-ins sold worldwide last year, with Chinese... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Revlon founder who was among those profiled in Tedlow's recent book, Giants of Enterprise. His session examined the roots of eth-ical decay in America's “quiz show scandal” of the 1950s, which was driven in part by the aggressive tactics... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS
founder of Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. Since founding the MMRF in 1998, Giusti has led the foundation in establishing innovative, collaborative research models in the areas of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
founder and CEO of Social Finance, a Boston-based nonprofit established in January to introduce SIBs to the United States. A companion organization with the same name is based in London. With governments here and abroad strapped for cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply chain that is virtually... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
important to have a fully engaged society. “I was at Ford for 13 years and I left to join Carnegie about seven years ago. It’s one of the few foundations that I’ve seen that actually really keeps close to the original mission of its View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
generations to come and shares his personal history as an heir to the Carnation fortune. The message of his great-grandfather, E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company in 1899, still holds true today, says Lucas: Be useful. How... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
the book, which is equal parts memoir and how-to guide, Zee Clarke (MBA 2008) shares her own experiences as a Black woman in corporate America and how discovering mindfulness techniques transformed her sense of well-being. As the founder... View Details