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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
and dilemmas. During discussions about the gaming platform Roblox, AI chatbot Replika AI, and crypto-native venture capital fund Electric Capital, students are exposed to the challenges of the rapidly evolving tech landscape, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
best-practice scheduling at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, this book will help school and district leaders—and the teachers and students they serve—make the most of every school day and year. Higher Purpose Venture... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Africa’s business and economic landscape. Close to 100 alumni from several HBS clubs logged on for the conversation, which touched upon a wide range of issues including investing, private equity and venture capital, the outsized impact... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
College and to HBS, where he has worked on and chaired several gift and reunion committees. In addition to serving as chairman of the board of Harvard Student Agencies, he has helped set up a venture fund that aids View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the company's Boston office and take a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
from being just consumers to also creators (publish posts on social media) Interactive web pages User-generated content; can be shared and customized Rise of social media, e-commerce, online services User... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
father built the venture into a successful business; but his plan to expand to neighboring states hit a major roadblock when local bankers rejected his loan application 13 times. As an adult, Ballard discussed with his father the deeper... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world has ever seen. The current climate crisis is far beyond an environmental issue—it is an existential crisis. Moreover, it converges with—and exacerbates—the crises we face in biodiversity, global health, and social justice. As... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
Guy de Chazal has arrived a bit behind schedule for his 25th Reunion interview. Trim and elegantly attired, he apologizes for being detained at an off-site meeting for Morgan Stanley & Co., where he is a managing director and president of Morgan Stanley View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
vuvuzelas competes with the arena’s mix of American hip-hop and regional hits. It is a distinctly regional take on an iconic American export. The league is a core pillar of NBA Africa, a two-year-old venture whose value NBA Commissioner... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
through foreclosure. (Dlodlo plans to export this bipartite model to Africa to help prevent families there from suffering the fate that befell her own family after her father died.) From the outset, Dlodlo was committed to pursuing a View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
group's majority stake in the rural retailer was sold, and the poultry business was placed in a joint venture with US-based Tyson Foods. The most significant changes came at the top. In August 2007, the managing director—a longtime Godrej... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
a decent profit decently. Venture philanthropy, which applies principles of venture investing to social enterprises, has become a hot topic lately. Is View Details