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- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
whether to make the commitment to join. 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Opens; Top Prize is $75,000 The HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is encouraging all HBS alumni entrepreneurs to enter the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he briefly had a job creating facial-recognition software for airports. An entrepreneur at heart, he then launched and ultimately sold a successful instant messaging software company.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
group of successful entrepreneurs who shared their experiences of launching and sustaining a minority-owned business. “Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community,” said L. Londell McMillan, president and CEO of L.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
governments often do, which is to throw money at entrepreneurs without creating an environment that is hospitable to entrepreneurship. You’ve written that government stimulus packages sometimes fail because they are directed by a “herd... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Himalayan climbing team, the executive director of an innovative low-income senior housing community, and the founder of a pioneering youth basketball program for girls. Examples of “fixing it” also come from the journeys of entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
of mentor capitalism brought HBS professor Dorothy A. Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University to Singapore and Hong Kong last fall. The pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American businessman and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Attention, HBS Entrepreneurs!
President Drew Faust announced a University-funded initiative, the President’s Challenge, that backs student entrepreneurs solving urgent global social problems. View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
study of companies in Western countries. But while innovation was the most important driver of high performance among the corporations in the Western economies, in Asian companies the key element was how customer-oriented firms were. That prompted computer View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
my own company before being an entrepreneur was a common thing to do,” explains Brierley. Within 10 years, Epsilon was working with more than 400 nonprofit organizations. After leaving the company, Brierley went on to pioneer customer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
HBS Entrepreneurship at a Glance
50. That’s how many years HBS has been researching and teaching entrepreneurship. It’s also the percentage of the School’s alumni who classify themselves as entrepreneurs ten to fifteen years after graduation. Among those who have founded... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
It could have passed for a sorority reunion, as a distinguished group of enthusiastic and motivated women assembled for a group photo. But the membership requirements for this sisterhood were stiff. The 28 entrepreneurs who came to HBS in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
convenience and efficiency, at a fraction of the cost, made more than a few entrepreneurs on both sides of the Pond sit up and take notice. As cofounder and CEO of e-Dialog, an early entrant in the field of e-mail direct marketing,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
BlackRock. David Baum (MBA 1996), an entrepreneur and early-stage venture capitalist, pointed out that when Larry Fink cofounded BlackRock, he had just lost $100 million at First Boston. His failure was the foundation upon which BlackRock... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
government. For example, we need to figure out how to improve the quality of education in this country. Our public educational system is failing, and true to form, entrepreneurs are rising to the challenge. At NationsBanc Montgomery... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
culling its inventory from the excess food other supermarkets and suppliers typically throw away. The Kendall Foundation also supports CommonWealth Kitchen, which offers food entrepreneurs a place to incubate new businesses without the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
the bubble burst, and it has not come back again. I also hope that it will become a showcase for other entrepreneurs to do something for their hometowns. I’m hoping that other successful entrepreneurs—instead of just buying their own... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
years, biomedical technology firms have been notably unprofitable,” he observes. “It sounds counterintuitive, but the industry may well suffer from its very ability to attract venture capital and entrepreneurs — every new idea seems to... View Details