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- 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 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
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
search for adventure. These places gave a flavor of that.” There were more corporate transfers (to fresh vegetables, then fresh fruit) until 1983, when he landed what he saw as his dream role as Castle &... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Fine-Tuning
FLÜGELMAN: A global financier whose classical compositions have won worldwide acclaim. Starting with piano lessons as a boy in Buenos Aires, Máximo Flügelman (MBA 1971) found that he enjoyed creating his own music. But instead of pursuing... 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
- 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
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
- 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 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
- 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
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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
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
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Laura Arjona
impact of my contribution." Encouraged by friends working in the financial sector, Laura obtained a position at UBS Investment Banking after graduation, staying for two years in the energy group. "When I started, news was just View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details
- 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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The September cohort of the Class of 1998 has arrived on campus, and with the new academic year starts a fresh term for the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since the Board represents over 60,000 HBS alumni, I... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett