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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
URLs. “Names have the ability to cross international boundaries, and the naming and branding sectors have ballooned over the past three decades,” says Master. “The power of a name has only grown over time, as has the risk of getting it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Krishna Mahesh (MBA ’05) not only traveled the longest distance to arrive on campus for the final round of judging in the inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest, he also figured he had the longest shot at winning. The seven finalists, representing five domestic and two... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Jakurski, MBA 1973 Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Thomas A. James, MBA 1966 Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
the significant debt that might have hindered his social entrepreneurship goals. The idea for the Fundación México en Harvard was born in 1989 after a small group of Mexican HBS graduates learned a single, dramatic statistic: half of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
A Business Plan with Spice
saffron fields of Afghanistan as cofounders of Rumi Spice, a company which imports one of the world’s most expensive foodstuffs and markets it to top chefs. “Connecting Afghan farmers to the international marketplace is something that's... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
sales, Anthony Curry Harris, and his director of international sales, Damaune Journey (MBA 2005)—are hoping to buy CSECO. Harris says that would certainly give him more time to serve on boards, such as the nonprofit SFJazz, which recently... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
expertise in technology was helpful because I didn't have preconceived notions of how things should be done.” Lee transformed a struggling software sales company into a global provider of IT products and services. Under her leadership, SHI View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
terms, but he embraced blogging, which was a radical idea in 2006 because people thought it would destroy our brand.” In other words, the magazine—a carefully thought-out and meticulously produced product—would be compromised by less polished, more off-the-cuff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
human spirituality/religion. The study showed that roughly 20,000 non-founder alumni are logging an estimated 295,000 volunteer hours each month in US and international organizations. Reflecting on the results of the study, Lerner says,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
York whose full potential never emerged in the classroom. Angel excelled as an intern in Montage’s Diversity in Production program, where he trained to be a gaffer. “He had so much desire to learn,” Stone remembers. “It was wonderful to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
doctorate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and on a dissertation entitled "On the Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial and Marine Environments." Dawe was the co-president of the HBS Energy Club and had spent his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
and empowering them to take it to the next level. How do we know we’re going to be good at that? If we’re lucky, the people we’re hiring will do things even better than we do them now. On deck: International expansion is the biggest thing... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
more product and move to the next level? There are very few places to turn.’ ” The data backed up Kehinde’s experiences: Last year, the International Finance Corporation estimated the credit gap for small businesses in Nigeria to be at... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
place across sectors, especially health care. “We also witnessed inventions that went awry.” Weiss relates that in March, he had just completed the final draft of his new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Ethics, Economics, and Organizations Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine Service Management Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Gary W. Loveman Entrepreneurship Professors Teresa M. Amabile and Howard H.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, and Daniel Ng, founder-chairman, McDonald's Restaurants (HK), Ltd. But what about all those intricate family connections and networks that have made Asian View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes