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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
profitability. And in the venture world, a Boston Consulting Group study found that startups with at least one woman on the founding team garner less investment but earn more... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Multiple generations of computing
Palm Computing to found Handspring, creator of the Treo smartphone, a handheld device that set the standard for next-generation smartphones. They teamed up again in 2005 to View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Since its founding in 2011, the Harvard Innovation Labs (HIL)—a collaboration between HBS and Harvard University—has nurtured some 2,500 ventures founded by students, alumni, and faculty members from all 13... View Details
- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
as in ‘X-ray,’ U as in ‘uniform.’ I thought he’d said unicorn—probably because I heard what I wanted to hear—and found it so absurd that I had to adopt it. Ever since then people have called me X-ray Unicorn.” Can you finish this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
the successful founding teams I interviewed were made up of classmates, sectionmates, and even study groups from HBS. Michel and his Military.com cofounder, classmate Anne Dwane (MBA ’98), met on their first... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Bauerly (MBA 1996, MPA 1996) and his team know that investing in their own state will only make the state—and Granite Equity, in turn—stronger by contributing to quality jobs, community commitment, and the bottom line. Granite Equity... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
members at BollyX, or with the people who come take my class. "When working with startups, you have to be able to motivate people in ways that may not be connected to financial resources, which is challenging. I have found that giving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
(courtesy Martijn Lopes Cardozo) Carbon black is everywhere. The dark, powdery substance can be found in inks, dyes, polymers, rubber, and tires—almost everything that looks black has used carbon black in its production, says Martijn... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
over a five-month period, she observed 8 teams and surveyed some 427 employees. Edmondson found that members of teams with higher levels of psychological safety (those... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Dec 2021
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Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job security. As a result, the bar for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
concept.” With their faculty advisors acting as “healthy skeptics,” the team laid the groundwork for ZEFER, which has received more than $100 million in venture funding, earned over $100 million in 2000 revenues, and boasts over seven... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were selected from among 17 high-caliber View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
help entrepreneurs assemble great teams. But VCs don't manage, inspire, or lead. We're off stage, behind the curtains, funding the production, and maybe adjusting some spotlights. Venture capital is a supporting role. HBSB: What do you look for in potential ventures?... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be part of the industry providing for people’s basic needs.” What... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl deemed it “the most... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
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Turning Up the Volume
found to lead the organization, which helps high-achieving, diverse students from low-income backgrounds attend top colleges and universities across the country. Given the stakes of LEDA’s mission, Goldman realized stagnation was not an... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon