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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) grew up on an asparagus farm in Scotts Ferry, New Zealand, a village of 65 people. The only girl in her high-school class, she went on to attend Macalester College in Minnesota, becoming the first college graduate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job by Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA 2004) (Portfolio) Becoming a full-time entrepreneur can look glamorous, but the truth is that entrepreneurship is often a slog. What... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
the Startup Grind in Kuwait City Verses Please come right in and take a seat We’re very glad you’re here! Can’t wait to tell you all the things we’re planning for the year. The sign-in sheet is going ‘round; make sure your name is clear... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
While his friends have retired, 79-year-old Merle Bushkin (AB 1956, MBA 1960), a laid-back guy with the energy of a man half his age, is rocketing full speed into the challenges of entrepreneurship—launching a startup company offering a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
University, and T-Mobile, among them. Their stories make it clear that organizations don’t have to be tech startups or have the latest innovations to transform. What they need to do is develop a disruptive mindset that permeates every... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
or the newest startup in Silicon Valley, VC is not just a model of finance that has proven difficult to replicate in other countries. It is a state of mind exemplified by an appetite for risk-taking, a bold spirit of adventure, and an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
risk-takers, and that wasn’t me.” Location, location: “There was an advantage to being a startup in the Midwest. Everybody was moving to the coast, and we were able to stay outside the fray. Sometimes one of the biggest challenges with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
Kennedy Main article: Where Innovation Rules As a kid, Joe Kennedy (MBA 1985) got hooked early on the magic of radio, listening in bed at night to a crystal set he had built himself. Radio returned to his life in 2004 when—after an 11-year stint in marketing at Saturn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company dedicated to finding safe ways to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
Hicks Photo courtesy Angie's List What Angie's List Knows About Customer Reviews Main article: Where Innovation Rules Talk about a pain point. Shoddy roofing leads to leaking, causing your ceiling to fall in and damage the kitchen. Now what? How do you (quickly!) find... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session “Crafting the Future of Green... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a midterm election. But HBS professor Josh Lerner contends it’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
help your startup stand out from the rest, listen to the innovation heads at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital discuss what hospitals want from digital partners. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
by what might be the shortest dot-com career on record. He accepted a job offer at an Internet startup in New York City at the height of the bubble, only to have the business fold just as he and his wife were packing for the move. “The... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
When considering how to enter the digital learning arena, HBS did what any startup would do. It began in 2012 by identifying a challenge: How to merge the unique elements of the HBS learning experience with the latest technology to create... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
side or the support side (equipment suppliers, startup consultants, etc.)? Over history, some of the most successful ventures were launched on the support side. (Some people who made the most money during the gold rush sold picks and... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
to Saudi Arabia, where they lived in exile for nearly a decade. They eventually returned to Pakistan, and she was given the opportunity to follow her brother to the United States for education and eventually attend Cornell University. After college, she joined... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken