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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
chair. Key figures in the initiative credit Whitehead with playing a pivotal role in the program’s success. Professor emeritus Jim Austin, a cofounder and former chair of SEI, calls Whitehead “an extraordinary social entrepreneur who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration, annually compiles the best posts from blogs on technology start-up management for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
Since 2010, the FIL has signed up 43 institutional partners and roughly the same number of entrepreneur mentors and venture capitalists. More importantly, it has helped birth 47 companies that have gone on to raise $531 million in VC... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
prosperity, environmental stewardship, social justice, and democracy are not at odds. Henderson and former HBS Dean Nitin Nohria talked about the book in an alumni webinar. Inspiring Public Entrepreneurship “A public official can be every bit as much of an View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash For his latest venture, serial entrepreneur Jan Samzelius (MBA 1979) set out to eliminate one of the biggest annoyances of the digital era: hard-to-remember passwords. But along the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
school, something I didn’t know anything about. After leaving Grand Bank, I started Grand Angels to help local entrepreneurs. We’re here not only to write the checks but to mentor companies we invest in. Many entrepreneurs will tell you... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
differences between consumers in the United States and Europe was just one of the topics covered at the fourth annual European Business Conference, presented November 21 and 22 by students of the HBS European Club. Other panels considered the particular challenges... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
to invest in the careers of politicians who will vow to keep our unfair tax advantages. —Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970) is president and CEO of Brooklyn, New York–based IceStoneUSA, which makes countertops out of recycled glass and cement. The founder of Tweezerman, he is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
takes an in-depth look at microfinance, an important and relatively new poverty-alleviating weapon. Introduced about thirty years ago, this system of very small loans to grassroots entrepreneurs such as street vendors, subsistence... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Jones at Extend Fertility’s new headquarters in Allston, Massachusetts. Serial entrepreneur Christy Jones is interested in the balance between innocence and experience. With two start-ups under her belt and a third on the way, Jones is... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
meaningful advice to any entrepreneur seeking investor funding. Civility Rules! Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility By Shelby Joy Scarbrough (OPM 47, 2015) Forbes Books While our civilization continues to advance, our capacity to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
entrepreneurs in emerging markets. "To succeed, we must build our human capital," he says. Although problems persist, alumni in the region generally agree that change is coming to Latin America, perhaps with unprecedented speed and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
are an entrepreneur who is selling ideas that have been tested through rigorous research,” says Akinola, who teaches the first-year MBA course on leadership development. “To me, it’s just as stressful as being in a corporation, but the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
was arguing that innovation “within the shell of existing corporations offers a much more convenient access to the entrepreneurial functions than existed in the world of owner-managed firms. Many a would-be entrepreneur of today does not... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
to coach your kids, take on a service project, to be involved in your church, to volunteer with entrepreneurs I think the more creative you are and the more opportunity you'll have to bring that talent and creativity back to your office... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
on their smartphone within the last month. That trend is fostering a next generation of entrepreneurs developing new revenue models that aren’t built around the traditional program formats, a shift that writers and producers are taking... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Facebook make a 100 percent return, society doesn’t question it—it’s absolutely fine to make money if you are a smart investor or entrepreneur or just plain lucky, glory be to you,” says Rangan. “But just imagine making—on the backs of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
curves at sixty miles an hour!” Any entrepreneur can tell you how well the same description suits the wild ride of a start-up, and the e-mail coming through on Gisholt’s Trio promised a perilous turn of its own. Back at company... View Details