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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston... View Details
Keywords: New Venture Competition
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Spring Training for Startups
narrowed down finalists in the business and social enterprise tracks to grand prize winners and runners-up, each receiving $50,000 and $25,000, respectively. Alumni NVC winners were announced two weeks earlier, with victors in three tracks—determined by online View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
It was a Friday afternoon on a weekend when no "WAC" (Written Analysis of Cases) was due in the deposit slot by midnight Saturday, so a number of us were preparing to go skiing. I was with sectionmate Fred... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
$75,000. Claiming both the alumni grand prize and crowd favorite awards was Blueland, which is “(t)aking the weight and waste out of your everyday products” through reusable bottles and concentrated cleaning... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
drives innovation. Persist — most people give up too soon. Love many things, so you’ll want to master them or make them better.). After Thomke’s class, Randal performed to an overflow crowd of HBS students... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
to put the study rooms in the library instead of Spangler, and how many seats to put in the auditorium.” Ultimately, Spangler got 29 study rooms and a 350-seat auditorium. Essential Spangler: Warm weather always draws a View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
narrative. Think Like a Black Sheep: Unlock Your Inner Superpower and Break Free from the Crowd By Aaron Poynton (AMP 195, 2018) Leaders Press In a world of followers, discover the power View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
high ratings who faced little competition tended to make tweaks to their original design, rather than radical changes. At the other end of the spectrum, when competition became crowded with many other... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
dependency. In many cases, it crowded out entrepreneurship and private investment. "After five years working in New York, Indonesia, Angola, and the Central African Republic, I decided I had had enough and would apply to business school."... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
his mission ends in May. The GMP program, was “the best commander training I had,” he told the assembled crowd from some 220 miles above the Earth. Behind Virts, the sun reflected off the space station’s solar arrays, visible through two... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
Executive Director Mike Roberts, the lineup lost no time in getting down to brass tacks with the SRO student crowd of would-be entrepreneurs. Paris Wallace (MBA ’07) of Good... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
innovative endeavors place a high priority on the recruitment and support of a dedicated, world-class faculty. We are competing for talent in a crowded job market, and we must continue to make a significant... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden Auditorium on topics that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
relocated from nearby Aldrich Lawn due to construction of the new Hawes Hall classroom building, tradition otherwise prevailed in the form of beautiful weather, wise and humorous speeches, and an... View Details