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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
the most important thing is to listen; the other is to be decisive. You’re not the only one with a brain, so it’s very important to get input. And you can’t waffle.” Back to top Salman A. Khan (MBA 2003) Founder and CEO, Khan Academy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
we hope to make some of this AI course content available to alumni, too. Later this year, we’ll introduce Foundry, a platform for founders creating ventures with growth potential and offering entrepreneurship programs, resources, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa. As founder and CEO of Adesemi, Monique Maddy (MBA '93) spoke about her goal to deliver wireless communication - through a system of voicemail, pagers, and pay phones - to underdeveloped areas of the globe. Panelist John L. Mack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... 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
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Entrepreneurship There are two cases on NFTE, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The first case, "Steve Mariotti and NFTE," centers on the nonprofit's founder and the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why McMinn, View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Gee, I wonder if any famous Harvard entrepreneurs started out this way. No Butts about it If there is such a thing as an entrepreneurial addiction, David H. de Weese (MBA '65) is hooked. The founder of or key strategist in several... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
fiscal 2002) has had little difficulty recruiting experienced employees, with surplus tasks handled by managers-in-training. Mack, a former consultant in heavy manufacturing and petrochemicals at Bain & Company, bought the Sweet Tomatoes chain from its original View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
the Beatles, Thomas Alva Edison, Michael Jordan, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the founders of Infosys, author Amish, and others have used rejections as a pivot to swing their careers and businesses around. Parameswaran brings his decades of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
authenticity in a culture that too often minimizes their value. —Sarah Riggs Amico (MBA 2003) is executive chairperson of Jack Cooper Investments and a founder of Rediscovering Our American Dream (ROAD), a mission-driven media company.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the organization’s View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
his motorbike into in the late 2000s. READ MORE [Sound of motor bike] Aldi Haryopratomo: Hi, my name is Aldi. I am the CEO of Gopay, and also the founder of Ruma, or now called Mapan. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
entrepreneurs have to make tough choices all the time. Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Women & Enterprise, advised, "Don't go with your gut without doing analysis." In contrast, Roxanne Quimby,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
While the economics of the music industry have always been a little convoluted, there’s at least one simple reason contributing to all the attention from private equity, according to Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004): interest rates. The View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
same house for a long time, and in that world it made sense to own the same sofa for 10 years. The new generation has been forced to buy fixed assets even though they know they’re going to be moving before long. For them, the furniture system is broken.” The Question:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
finance, product, policy, or legal, there is a way to tackle part of this big problem,” he says. Caroline Quazzo (MBA 2017), a founder within Exelorate Growth, the internal incubator of Exelon, the leading provider of zero-carbon energy... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
(MBA 1991). Skelly, president and founder of Clean Line Energy Partners, was asked by the Partnership to serve on its board, but declined because he had just been appointed to the Houston Parks Board. He suggested Gilbane, whose company... View Details