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- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of Japan held a virtual gathering on June 25 to showcase its HBS Japan Fellowship—a fund that helps students from Japan “realize their dream” of attending Harvard Business School. Moderated by Ryo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence, a 48-year-old... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my mind today,” says Taylor.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This was, at its core, a View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Deep Tech for an Abundant Future
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Having an impact by starting and growing companies
Charlie Tillinghast (MBA 1963) talks about how his education at Harvard Business School prepared him for a lifelong career of starting and growing companies. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
want things to be done right, but we don’t want to invest a lot of thought and process in finding a solution.” Online reviews are nothing new, of course. But Angie’s List was early to the game and operates under an almost unthinkable View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
writes. The global pandemic has created an opportunity to “bring impact to the center of our economic system, to overthrow the tyranny of profit and to shift the basis for our business and investment decisions from risk-return to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
through 2019. “The big objective of my tenure is to help Europe to be able to have an ecosystem where you can actually create the conditions for fundamental science and research to be transformed into real products and businesses that... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- News
Rocket Internet Seeks to Raise About $967 Million in I.P.O.
- 21 Jul 2014
- News
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
most of his peers, Coach P used a variety of quantifiable metrics for each rower to determine who would sit in the varsity boat. Says Polzer, “The highest-performing individual rowers typically go in the varsity boat, just as a business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the vanguard company creating synergy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
interest. The new arrangement, unique to HBS among business schools with similar cost and financing structures, eliminates access limitations based on citizenship and creditworthiness - hurdles that have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
venture capital. Two years later, she sold the firm, Rubric, Inc., for $366 million. Securing the venture-capital investment was a major challenge, she told a capacity crowd gathered for the fourteenth annual Dynamic Women in Business... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details