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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and entrepreneur Larry Gulko to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
senior partners from two dozen top-tier VC firms, who visited with government officials and entrepreneurs in each country. Hardymon ranks the trips as “among the biggest recent events in the VC world.” SVB’s Wilcox says the trips helped... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
focused on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions. Yet they achieved both distinctions in May 2021 with the launch of MPower Partners, focusing on what they considered an untapped pool of talent: young entrepreneurs making... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
1920–2000: How It Worked, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of the entrepreneurs and companies that have left their impression on world industry. McCraw examines... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
will see the launch of my first brick and mortar fitness studio! I'm partnering with a friend who is a respected entrepreneur to transform his current fitness studio located in New York City's Lower East Side. The ultimate mission for... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products will make their debut in Sahlman's Entrepreneurial Finance... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and promising a new generation of singles a better way to date. With the help of Facebook and smartphones, this new era of online dating entrepreneurs is trying to design women-friendly dating options. If you squint, you can find an early... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
situations. The author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire, she has also contributed to many other books and written... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
those days. There were very few VC-backed startups and not much of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It was what author and venture capitalist Alex Lazarow would define as a “frontier market”—a place where entrepreneurs face significant... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
last decade. It was founded by an entrepreneur who, as he was approaching age 65, was starting to do some life and estate planning. After poking around to find the successor and the next board and CEO, he chose Granite Equity over... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
Initiative Advisory Board, and in 2001 she received the HBS Women's Student Association award as the outstanding female graduate in finance and consulting. Named to Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women for the past two years, Barry continues to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
“Every time there’s a shift in politics, everything gets reversed.” In the US wind sector that meant decades of stop-and-start innovation, a lack of institutional structures, and speculative investing. This stood in contrast to Denmark. Like the United States, Denmark... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
but some young entrepreneurs are picking up on it — Nasdaq Japan listed forty companies last year. With only 10 percent of private investors participating in the securities market, Saeki sees enormous room for growth. “This country still... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
lead investor in their $2.1 million seed round last year. “You really never know how those doors can open for you. It’s so important as an entrepreneur to be able to put yourself out there and pitch in any forum you can find. Winning... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart producers. View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
pitched her business, which makes at-home lab testing kits on ABC's Shark Tank and sealed a deal for a $1M line of credit from investor Lori Greiner, in exchange for five percent equity in the company. The investment marks the largest deal Greiner has ever made on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley