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- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Helping refugees make it in America
At the healthy snack foods company they cofounded, Marius Andersen (MBA 1999) and his wife, Hilary, provide jobs, health insurance, and a fresh start to refugees in their community. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 26 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”
unknown terrains that appealed to Felipe. “I discovered that I didn’t want a traditional corporate life,” he says. “I wanted a greater sense of ownership, the ability to see my impact on a business from beginning to end.” When Felipe View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
Is the bloom off the entrepreneurial rose? Do B2B and B2C mean "Back to Banking" and "Back to Consulting," as the current joke would have it? Where are the opportunities for those who still believe starting their own business is the way... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
i-lab—has given Cryoocyte the funding and fresh ideas needed to hone its technology in the field. To gather viable eggs for testing, the company’s Allston-based team has had to follow spawning season, from Panama to the Patagonia... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. People cheered when the live... View Details
- 22 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity
cement her decision to leave her “traditional” job. Widman also leveraged the Harvard Angels around this time to further network. “It was definitely a bit of a leap and was not an easy decision at the time,” said Widman. “I tried to start... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the... View Details
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
thinking, regarding what I’d like to do next as an entrepreneur.” The power of the FIELD program But above all else, Lindsay points to the three-part FIELD program as the strongest measure of both what is fresh at HBS and what is helpful... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 50 percent by 2025. Other studies have found that, within a generation, one in three... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
Business and innovative technology have consistently played large roles in Jonathan Assayag's life. Growing up in Brazil and Miami, he started his informal business education working weekends at his parents' retail store, selling... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With workers hustling to prep and cook... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
"Ranger Bolick, you have the heart of a lion, but your body just isn't keeping up. Hang in there; you have what it takes." Scott Bolick will never forget those words. In 1990, fresh out of West Point, he was struggling through the Army's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Profile
Bei Guo
before starting her own venture. "It's all a matter of timing," she says. Bei's dream business involves design and fashion retail in China. "There are many mature models in the West," says Bei, "but there are lots... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
familiar to HBS alumni. But the author makes them fresh by applying his nearly 30 years of VC experience at Warburg Pincus to digest the crucial ingredients required to build a long-running, society-shaping enterprise. His underlying... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
tour director and led the group on a highly successful 1992 European concert tour. Returning to Cambridge, Lim and his classmate, first violinist Scott Y. Yoo (Harvard '93), conceived the idea of starting an orchestra, with 18- to... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- Profile
Malory Mclemore
Coming to HBS is like... ...being an astronaut, looking out at the Earth. I stepped back from the day to day and started to define the type of person and leader I wanted to be beyond the next five to ten years. Your community and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
148-day strike against the big media companies, I normally picketed at CBS Radford because (a) it was the studio closest to my home, and (b) it hit the Venn diagram of parking, shade, and bathrooms. I’d occasionally keep things fresh by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
the development of new economies and profoundly improve the prospects for those countries. "By starting fresh in Eisenach," Hughes explains, "we were able to introduce lean manufacturing processes to workers... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
energetic and upbeat Lang, who has become one of the most successful women executives in the high-tech industry. "What's helped," she says, "has been knowing I've earned a seat at the table because of my previous hard work and accomplishments." And those... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS
words from the lyrics of the songs and started using them. The large participation drew others who wanted to know where their classmates were from, and how they live in their home countries. Sections gathered to eat Indian food after... View Details