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- 01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million fund focused on... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
meeting, we hold events in New York, DC, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We’re also launching in Houston and Atlanta. Our events tap into Harvard faculty and experts, such as Lawrence Lessig from Harvard Law, plus conservatives... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: After leaving England for Australia in late 1830s, John Fairfax began building a media empire. At its height, John Fairfax Limited held the Australian equivalent of the View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis putt-putt by, pausing occasionally to... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? It’s become a lot more cognitive and brain-scientific. Neuroscience is a relatively View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
The bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs is that a huge majority of startups will never succeed—as many as three out of four will fail, according to some estimates. The reason is not because they can’t build the product they envisioned.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
Stig Leschly Photo credit goes here The first time Stig Leschly (MBA 1997 / JD 1998) really sat down to think about what he wanted to do with the rest of his life, he decided to pursue his love of music. He was 23 years old, new to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
excited to live in New England.” Olivier credits the School with fostering his personal development. “HBS challenged my assumptions about what I knew, what my skills were, and what my limitations were,” he explains. Ultimately Olivier... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
Group chairman Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), and Shahnaz Herbals founder and CEO Shahnaz Husain. The Nalli story Past Chairman Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti on his introduction to the family sari business, started by his grandfather in Madras (now... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, and the new HBS Alumni Association president, when he was on campus for a board meeting. He spoke with passion and eloquence of the School’s growing impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
in Rose Pistola, a restaurant specializing in the cuisine of Italy’s Liguria region. The San Francisco eatery was an immediate hit, winning the 1997 James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant in the country. Over the next three... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
modern talent market. Do you use new technologies in recruiting? What aspect of the process do they address? —Kathy Murray (AMP 112, 1993) GULLIVER: We are seeing value in solutions that are focused on the top of the funnel—prospects... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
his motorbike into in the late 2000s. READ MORE [Sound of motor bike] Aldi Haryopratomo: Hi, my name is Aldi. I am the CEO of Gopay, and also the founder of Ruma, or now called Mapan. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
California, headquarters to learn how he turned a struggling Bay Area ice-cream business into the nation’s leading producer. Today, as chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Rogers, 63, presides over a $2 billion global... View Details