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- 10 May 2019
- News
Shining a Light on Black Brilliance
Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) is the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. He teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course titled Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship. In this... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
his wife's salary as a sales representative at Wang, Shafir struggled to grow his business, barely keeping ahead of his creditors each month. Finally in 1993, new financing from another relative provided enough cushion to allow Shafir to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
feelings and attitudes. "It encouraged me to be more independent," Belkin continues. "In a way, I think it fertilized my entrepreneurial leanings. I also believe it made me more community oriented. As a result, I wanted to take what was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual capital. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's former View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
information technology for pedagogy; in teaching entrepreneurial management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
“animal spirits,” entrepreneurial energies and imaginings that bring a business to life. They also miss out on the aspirations employees may harbor to think a bit on their own, experiment with new ways of doing the same old drill, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
experiential learning, immersion experiences, and team-based entrepreneurial projects are all on the right track.” Dawson grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and was the first in his family to attend college. He majored in business and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
develop new strategies to ease the impact of plant shutdowns, layoffs, military-base closings, and other dislocations by discerning areas of opportunity amid adversity and trying to stimulate entrepreneurial activity around them using... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
(MBA 2016) picked up the mantle in 2015; Sapone and Beck made end-of-day calls to the team. The program has since been handed down each year, an organic part of the growing HBS entrepreneurial ecosystem, which now also includes Startup... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
service." The three men—who have experience with tech companies such as Instagram, MakerBot, Microsoft, and Vostu, which Kushner cofounded—are backed by $40 million in venture capital. Said Nazemi, who first flashed his entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
the conference attracted more than 800 women to the HBS campus. The panel on entrepreneurship at which Shukla spoke was moderated by HBS professor Lynda Applegate. It focused on the unique challenges women face in starting a company, particularly in getting View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
their careers. “For us, the answer was partly ‘let’s build something that’s different than what you see out there, and let’s build a firm that can succeed.’ So, that’s what we’ve done with Avance,” says Perez, the firm’s managing partner. View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
anticorruption benchmarks as determined by third-party data from organizations such as the International Finance Corporation, the World Health Organization, and the Heritage Foundation, among others. "It's become a valuable Good... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
turns out it's tough—particularly a multi-billion-dollar market." Professors like Joseph Lassiter and William Sahlman, and their lessons about entrepreneurial finance and the diffusion of innovations,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
HBS professor of management Joseph B. Lassiter, III, the evening's featured speaker, outlined some of the major issues he addresses in his MBA course Entrepreneurial Marketing. A seasoned entrepreneur and former president of Wildfire... View Details