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- 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 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
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
Web Extras Watch Professor Wasserman explain key insights from his book, Founders Dilemmas Listen to a webinar recording for alumni entrepreneurs Faculty Q&A with Professor Noam Wasserman When Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
the advisory opinion applies only to DynamiCare, substance abuse researchers praised the decision, and Gastfriend is hoping for competition. “My mentor in startups used to have a saying: Competition validates the market.” And more than... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this book shows how it’s done. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Pisano PublicAffairs Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
we’ll be reading about the startups by some of these young people who are lying flat,” he notes. Even so, tang ping continues to echo in the online forums where China’s youth congregate. The concept has parallels in other countries,... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
festival in the region. And that then, led to a conversation I had with Richard Branson, to start the Extreme Tech Challenge, which is a worldwide startup competition, where we have entrants, really, from like 100 countries in the world... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
problems and opportunities they will face as entrepreneurs and, second, by communicating our findings effectively to entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and policymakers." Special Satisfaction A pivotal phase in the success of any entrepreneurial venture is the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
towards a more sustainable business model. Ilham Kadri, CEO Solvay with Moderator Ali Aslan - HBS EAS 2022 “Many other speakers from the corporate and startup world provided valuable thoughts” adds Oliveau “and speakers from outside the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
line succeed. Aim to be world’s best at one thing, regardless of customer size. Okay, two things, just in case. But not everything. And aim for a very specific acquirer of the company at a time that’s right for you and your lives. Good luck! —Bill Mirbach (MBA 1976) is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was president of his class (as he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
concept in cybersecurity—the venue is just different. “Chief information security officers used to meet once a week for a beer and say, ‘Hey, are you seeing this?’ ” says Anne Bonaparte (MBA 1988), CEO of cybersecurity firm BrightPoint who has previously led security... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a successful venture in a related... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
$5,000 for the crowd favorite—for start-up costs. During the 25th NVC celebration, startup SurgiBox took home the alumni NVC crowd favorite prize. This year's event will be fully virtual. According to Rock Center Director Jodi Gernon (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
TraceTogether. It subsequently became both the subject of his book’s final chapter and the focus of a case Weiss coauthored and taught this fall in his Public Entrepreneurship MBA elective course, which is designed for MBA students who are thinking about founding,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- News