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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
Orchestral Startup —Richard J. Lim (HBS'98), cofounder of Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra Managing a Master—Edward C. Arrendell (MBA'80) with Wynton Marsalis, "an unbeatable combination." Guitar Hero—Henry E. Juszkiewicz (MBA '79) revives... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Whether she's participating in privatization efforts in Central Europe or working with technology startups in Cambridge, Scott thrives on helping bring focus to chaotic, fast-paced environments. Scott shared her entrepreneurial talents at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
L. John Doerr (MBA '76) is widely recognized as one of the country's preeminent venture capitalists. A partner in the California VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), he is known for backing startups that presaged entire... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free access to its online Startup... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
Gordon Jones (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Related Links: Follow i-lab news on Twitter Find the i-lab on Facebook Gordon Jones didn’t tailor his career path to become the ideal director for the Harvard innovation lab. It just worked out that way. An entrepreneur with two... View Details
- 06 Feb 2015
- News
The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
hearing loss. AUGUST 27 A startup founded by second-year MBA students Shrey Kapoor and Chrys Nikopoulos (both MBA 2021) has helped over 500 self-employed Americans access federal dollars during the pandemic. The pair launched FinGig this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000 patients; chairman of Golden Palm Investments, an impact investment firm that invests in... View Details
- 03 Dec 2013
- News
Cut to the Chase
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their web links. Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals without Mandates Associate Professor Michel Anteby studied his own... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- News
Mastering the VC Game
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
right next door. Batteries would store excess energy for nighttime and cloudy days. With the 24/7 demands of the internet, relying on local solar “feels risky to people,” he acknowledges, but new AI technology is going to demand new energy solutions. “I’m looking at a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
ethnographer by training, researched the connection between leadership and innovation for her 2014 book Collective Genius, which focused primarily on startups built from the ground up to be agile. To better understand the challenges faced... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
enough; zero emissions had to be the new goal. “We lost our whole potential business model,” he says. “Ninety-nine percent of startups die at that stage,” Fenwick-Smith notes. But not Lightning Systems. The company pivoted, using the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
there: ransomware, the security of our electric grid, and international espionage, for example. Young has worked in the field from his early-career startup days through posts at AOL, Cisco, and Intel, where he led the 2017 initiative to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
at mile 12 than building muscle or cardiovascular endurance. Conveniently, that mindset shift was as applicable in the final hours of summiting Kilimanjaro as it was in the most challenging moments of my startup career. Third, I’m not... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers devoted to their four-footed... View Details