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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Information; Information
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
New Post for Finnegan
Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm. “Harvard means a great deal to me, and I’m grateful for this opportunity to help guide its future,” said Finnegan, a 1975 graduate of the College. View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
Daphne Dufresne (MBA 1999) delivered the opening keynote address at the fifth annual Women in Investing Summit in Klarman Hall. The student-led Women in Investing Club seeks to strengthen the network of HBS students and alumnae pursuing investment management roles in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
THE BUILDING MUSEUM: Site of a GLF "State Dinner" Upcoming midterm elections and ongoing political scandals provide a timely backdrop to the 2006 HBS Global Leadership Forum, titled The Private Sector and the Public Interest, slated for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
Starting New Ventures, and Venture Capital and Private Equity. The Class of 1975's major gift cochairs, Leo J. Corbett, Hamilton E.("Tony") James, and Kendrick R. Wilson, reported that their classmates have shown overwhelming enthusiasm... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
explains. At GE, students worked on developing a plan for shifting from large-scale energy generation projects to smaller-scale ones to take advantage of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources. The NASA project challenged students to figure out ways for View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for all View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks, diminished government support, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
protection, particularly patents, on the competitive strategies of firms in high-technology industries. Venture Capital and Private Equity, an elective course Lerner developed and introduced into the HBS curriculum in 1993, has enjoyed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Administration. “The Forbes measure doesn’t make sense to me. Calculating return on investment based on salary five years out means Forbes rewards schools that mainly feed investment banks, private equity, and hedge funds. By implication,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
academic and residence building for the School’s Executive Education programs, began in early December on a site between Kresge Hall and Soldiers Field Road. When completed in late 2013, the 150,000-square-foot building will provide 179 bedrooms with View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
There’s a New Class in Town
Members of the MBA Class of 2010 (900 in all) reported for duty in September. Selected from a pool of 8,661 applicants, the group is 38 percent women and 33 percent international. Just over 200 of the incoming students have an industry background in consulting; venture... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Showing possibilities and new experiences to young people
Sam Duboc (MBA 1988), a private equity investor, talks about leading the nonprofit Pathways to Education to open possibilities and new experiences to young people in Canada. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
philanthropy moderated by HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas. More than 100 people attended the event, which highlighted the increasing synergy between the private sector and the philanthropic sector. Last November, the club inaugurated its... View Details
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
This just in. Turk Turkee is history. No more appearances on YouTube. No more plugs on CNBC. No more ink from BusinessWeek or the Boston Globe. No more Facebook site called “HBS Students for the Removal of the Turkey.” Rumor has it that, in a View Details