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- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
FemHealth Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on women’s health. For the nonprofit/government sector, the winner is Emma McCarthy (MBA 2018), Lieutenant Commander and one of the first women to serve as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk, and the audience explored the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
Odyssey afforded alumni a spectacular view of Chicago with a thunderstorm serving as a dramatic backdrop. On the final morning of the conference, alumni and guests had the option of visiting seven off-site locations, including Fox News, Aon, three View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
million per year in sales and employs more than 300 people. Holding 90 percent ownership of the company, he views it as "a family of entrepreneurs" but in recent years has also started a venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the Student Association (SA) and began one of the most active tenures of any SA president in recent memory. "I was motivated by the people at HBS and wanted to make a positive impact on the community," explains the friendly and outgoing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
television have always been mutually beneficial - sports provide television with a source of programming and content and a way of attracting viewers for other, nonsports program offerings. And for the four principal sports leagues, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
with which it works. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A & B)" (with V. Kasturi Rangan). Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: It looks for a return on its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Soldiers Field with a common bond to the School and to each other. To mark their collective achievement, here’s a look at six who represent the diversity and the varied ambitions of the Class of 2006. Sacasha Brown Immigrants’ daughter, View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) cofounded a risky Boston-based View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
forcing old industries to become more efficient and productive. A recent study by the National Venture Capital Association found that U.S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
first honed at HBS. After his initial adjustment to the MBA Program, Tierney thrived and upon graduating as a Baker Scholar, completed the coursework for the doctoral program before realizing that academic life did not suit him. Eventually, Tierney took a job in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
doing, then it doesn't take any toll on you. I absolutely love what I do. If you look at the best technology companies today, they’ve been there for, you know, 25 years to probably 45 years. I think what’s happened in the world for the last few years is the model of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch suddenly became focused on stakeholder capitalism and the vague mandates of environment, social, and governance (ESG). This culminated in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Democratic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons