Selection - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Jun 2023
News

9 Alumnae Named to Inc's Female Founders 200

The new Female Founders 200 list from Inc. includes nine HBS alumnae from across the world of business. Inc. noted that their honorees were selected using criteria that included founders that have "moved the needle in business and in... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Turkish Delight

and demand working for me — so I picked Turkey, because I thought it would become a more in demand, important part of the world. The other side is supply; as it happens, Turkey is a very understudied place.” A native Londoner, Byford had never been to Turkey. His... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

offered additional coaching and peer support. (He also received a need-based award through the Rock Center’s loan forgiveness program, which benefits select graduating entrepreneurs.) Goble was still in his pandemic-delayed second year at... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

not just those with fully formed ideas for ventures? When the i-lab opened in 2011, the Venture Incubation Program was a highly selective effort to curate a smaller group of student teams across all 13 schools. Over time, we wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2019
News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

extend students’ understanding of engineering. Prior to graduation, the program faculty will select students who have shown exemplary leadership, academic success, and innovation to receive an honorary award in the donors’ names. Harvard... View Details

28 Feb 2019
News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

any academic concentration) annually with access to resources normally reserved for graduate students—such as the HBS Startup Bootcamp, selected MBA electives, and special seminars. The first cohort of students, who will be known as... View Details

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

is based in the Northeastern US/Boston region. The virtual audience for the annual event also selected Tilden as the Crowd Favorite. Tilden, cofounded by Mariah Hilton Wood and Vanessa Royle (both MBA 2022) from the Western US/Southern... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones personally View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

experiences came together for Gupta. A project for her business strategy class asked her to select a business and create a go-to-market strategy for it. Gupta and her team presented an investment platform for women called LXME (named for... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

24 Jan 2020
News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, the nonprofit research institute he founded. ~ The Clayton Christensen Fund at Harvard Business School. (In the dropdown menu, select “Other” and then enter the fund’s name.) ~... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

moment? What new business opportunities could come from the efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change? Over the course of several days, we are releasing a selection of alumni responses in the hope that this spurs further... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

business and governmental organizations for greater impact in the next 20 years. Saleh Lootah (GMP 10, 2011) “The Forum invites key government, business leaders, HBS academics, and alumni CEOs—all carefully selected from across the GCC—to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

the Growing Diverse Housing Developer program, a highly selective national initiative led by a consortium of CDFIs that aims to increase the capacity of developers who identify as Black, indigenous, or people of color. The program aims to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

hoppy, sour, golden, and traditional and hazy IPA. Athletic also offers a rotating selection of seasonal releases and limited editions, which are sold online, on the shelves of supermarkets and in liquor stores and non-alcoholic bottle... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

the selection of a vastly increased enrollment of blacks in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to take the talented black business entrepreneurs who, regardless of education, are making a good track record in their own... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

consider, however, only one will win their support. For the select few startups that pass through Idanta's screen - some thirty companies that have created more than 40,000 jobs since Dunn founded the firm in 1971- there are significant... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

with some as large as 9,000 square feet, each stocking as many as 25,000 titles. BookHampton owner Carolyn Brody offers just a small selection of games and knickknacks—which offer higher profit margins than books do. “I want this to be a... View Details