Filter Results:
(1,114)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,889)
- People (5)
- News (1,114)
- Research (1,838)
- Events (13)
- Multimedia (53)
- Faculty Publications (1,526)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,889)
- People (5)
- News (1,114)
- Research (1,838)
- Events (13)
- Multimedia (53)
- Faculty Publications (1,526)
Sort by
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
enough; zero emissions had to be the new goal. “We lost our whole potential business model,” he says. “Ninety-nine percent of startups die at that stage,” Fenwick-Smith notes. But not Lightning Systems. The company pivoted, using the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
there: ransomware, the security of our electric grid, and international espionage, for example. Young has worked in the field from his early-career startup days through posts at AOL, Cisco, and Intel, where he led the 2017 initiative to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
at mile 12 than building muscle or cardiovascular endurance. Conveniently, that mindset shift was as applicable in the final hours of summiting Kilimanjaro as it was in the most challenging moments of my startup career. Third, I’m not... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
social sharing platform to help older adults live independently longer and provide tighter connection to family. CareSolver is a startup run by two current HBS students. It activate, educates, and supports the nation's $450... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two bank... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income through legal action against... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 04 May 2010
- News
An Experimental Solution for Donated Organs
- 03 Dec 2013
- News
Cut to the Chase
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their web links. Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals without Mandates Associate Professor Michel Anteby studied his own... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- News
Mastering the VC Game
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
from pure DTC and build brand awareness. Think of five dream businesses or locations where you would want your products to be seen and used, to help seed the market. —Dawn Dobras (MBA 1995) is former CEO of Credo Beauty, a startup... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
medical technology business from a spiritual retreat center in Florida. —Jinny Uppal (PLDA 9, 2012) Favorite? Not sure I have an answer on that but I’m nearly done with The Codebreakers and just finished Professor Tom Eisenmann’s book, Why View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
unsuccessfully. Kimble points to San Francisco–based Achaogen, which filed for bankruptcy last April despite securing regulatory approval for one of its antibiotic treatments in 2018. Given the catch-22s of making a profit on antibiotics, what’s a pharma View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s transition from View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
levels. Khan came to the United States from Pakistan when she was 17. She earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and became the youngest chief of staff to the CEO of a mobile advertising startup before going into venture... View Details