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- 16 Jan 2020
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Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild
Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes Source: Timothy Archibald for Forbes A recent article in Forbes highlights the work of the home-building management startup Homebound, cofounded by CEO Nikki Pechet (MBA 2007). Both cofounders—Pechet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres In classic engineer fashion, Ernesto Humpierres (MBA 2011) has always enjoyed building systems, whether it’s a Lego set with his twins or an e-commerce side hustle with their mother, Sarah Scott... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
What Started as a Class Project at HBS Just Raised $110 million from Fidelity, Google, and Microsoft
Keywords: CloudFlare
- 22 Sep 2014
- News
A "Silicon Valley-Style" Investment Fund in Europe
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class, and one of your first customers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
cofounder and COO of FarmTogether, a startup connecting investors to farmland investment opportunities. “There is a strong coalition of alumni working in various roles and industries here in New York City who are committed to generating... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
exist. There’s no such thing.” —Excerpt from The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream without Quitting Your Day Job, by Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA 2004), who is credited with popularizing the term “FOMO” after writing about it in a... View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
advisors that includes former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and Olympic hockey gold medalist Hilary Knight. The article also tracked the rise in sports startups in the Boston area more generally, highlighting both Will... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
(via Poets & Quants) (via Poets & Quants) Many b-school students covet a career like the one Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) has had. He became a managing director at Lehman Brothers when he was 31. Seven years later, he cofounded Blackstone, an investment firm that he... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
Reinhart: Deriving success in derivative markets. thredUP, a children’s clothing swap Web site cofounded by HBS classmates James Reinhart and Chris Homer (MBA ’09), expanded into toys last fall, just in time for the holidays. Shoppers had already begun swapping toys on... View Details
- 11 Jan 2013
- News
The Importance of Being Finished
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
who could figure out the transmission problem.” “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need another Midwest wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
their predecessors (Intel, Apple, and Oracle, to name a few), in the last fifteen years, Valley startups such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Yahoo!, and Adobe have changed the way the world works, thinks, plays, communicates, and does... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Feb 2023
- News
Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road
students heard from President Nana Akufo-Addo, who discussed the challenge their country faces creating future opportunities for the younger generation. Read more. London In Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe, with Professors Greg Marsh and Jeffrey Rayport, students... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
digital media leaders and experts. “It’s about inspiring youth to see themselves as makers instead of as users, and to create with technology to make a positive impact,” she says. A serial entrepreneur who most recently founded ROKO Labs, a New York–based technology... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
investor, entrepreneur, and provocateur—told an at-capacity crowd at Burden Hall that the best startups create and dominate their own markets: “Monopolies are good when they create new things.” During the FIELD 2 Global Dinner in the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Business Gets Serious Inside ‘Shark Tank’
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Clubs Assist Start-Ups
Got a great start-up idea? Enter it in this year’s Alumni New Venture Contest. Fourteen HBS alumni clubs in twelve host regions — Boston, Brazil, Chicago, Germany, India, Mexico, New York, Northern California, Southern California, Shanghai, Toronto, and the United Arab... View Details
Keywords: contests