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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Harf's daughter Katharina, who serves as DKMS's COO. Like the happy endings that Harf has brought to many blood cancer patients, there is a silver lining to his personal struggle with loss. In 1995, while promoting a line of cosmetics for View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
past fifty years, detailing how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they arise inherently from... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
people to get involved in global issues. The pair have coauthored three other books: China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power; Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia; and the 2009 bestseller, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
women to keep track of health data. Rewardly (Aleem Mawani, MBA ’11, and Jasen Kimis): A rewards program that works with customers’ existing credit cards wherever they make purchases. UpStart (Sarah Dillard, Jevan Soo, and Shiyan Koh, all... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
products more accessible so we created a 1:1 model where we donate a supply of our own prenatal vitamins to underserved women here in the United States who lack access to high-quality prenatal care,” she tells Forbes. “To date, we’ve... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
last two years: “(O)ver 35 new female general partners were added in 2018; 200 female venture capitalists and founders delivered more than 1,000 hours of mentorship; upwards of 1,000 founders pledged their commitment to diversity within their teams, boards and capital... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
Caryl Brackenridge (MBA 1965) didn’t think too much about being one of eight women to pioneer enrollment in the full-time MBA program at HBS. With two years of post-college teaching experience and two brothers, Brackenridge was used to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
with people being badly intentioned. It's literally, if you don't see a lot of women as entrepreneurs, as business leaders, you just don't expect that when you see them in that context that that's what they are. And so I think that's... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
product for independent stylists to manage orders, payments, and shipments, and will soon introduce a microloan product. With a Series A fundraise to come, Winters hopes to increase Upgrade’s market share, offering more and more women... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
Courtesy Rick Zedník Rick Zedník is vice chair of the Board of the EURACTIV Media Network and secretary of the board of Women Political Leaders. He lives in Brussels, Belgium. View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking? Interested in updating... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
than a million microentrepreneurs - more than half of them women - and creating or strengthening some one million jobs in low-income communities. What kind of impact has that made? A good example is Banco Solidario, or BancoSol, in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
soon- to-be MBA — entrepreneur intends to make a difference with his business education. “In 20 to 30 years, I hope to have created a venture where people have meaningful work making a product that helps solve global problems,” says the ambitious Friedlander.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
pooled coverage, even of presidential candidates - I think you lose something without having those different perspectives." Another big change she has observed is that women journalists, once rare, are everywhere. And she further notes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
women not wanting to be beaten up, opportunity for their kids” (USA Today, September 27, 2004). Democracy and transparency are not always transferable because of cultural and historical factors, Wolfensohn asserted, but they are “probably... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
university,” he offers, “is not only to turn out specialists but also to educate men and women who can discover connections between different fields of knowledge, and build those synergies into businesses with a powerful positive impact.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
Disney, Graceland, and O'Hare Airport. Brownell herself has become a business luminary -- she was honored recently as one of ten "women of distinction" by the Greater Detroit chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
approach to evaluating job candidates is virtually bias-free when compared with traditional methods: Men and women perform almost identically on the game-based assessments, with only minute variations occurring across racial and ethnic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
women I knew growing up thought that staying at the Holiday Inn was roughing it. But Joan was different.” Asked for his secret to longevity, Berkley cites exercise and healthy genes as primary factors. Before the age of modern medicine,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing