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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
Slavet, a nonprofit arts entrepreneur and partner in a real estate development and management firm. “But we want to be more than that. Through our radio show, Web site, education programs, and upcoming TV special, we’re establishing an... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
NPIL's new acquisitions in Canada and the United Kingdom to market NPIL globally. His three direct reports are each involved in different aspects of NPIL—the Canadian operations, the British operations, and the global business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
reason technology had not yet tackled this pain point, Wang says. Entrepreneurship often grows out of a founder’s own experiences. “For people who have not personally experienced this situation, you can’t appreciate how challenging it... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing
which provides a SaaS platform for marketers to manage their presence on social networks, is a division of Google, and is among the largest acquisitions ever made by the Internet giant. Wildfire now has over 25,000 paying customers who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented,... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
Village’s entrepreneurial season. While in Nola, we also met up with two of our HBS classmates, Eric Sonnier and Broderick McClinton, who were passing through Idea Village as they worked on their start-up, Equity Endeavor. We had an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Through broadband and cutting-edge technologies, the company offers cable customers a "parallel" Internet to the one presently accessed by telephone lines - one that is faster, more convenient, always on, and provides its own content... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
back to school if things didn't work out. As an aside, I encourage all 2+2ers do go try something crazy before you get here - why the heck not? When my deferral period expired in the fall of 2014, I returned to campus. I thought I'd "round out" my skill set... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
phone. Through the entrepreneurship program, Sounouvou received training, mentorship, networking, and $5,000 in seed funding, among other benefits. “The training helped me greatly in improving our business... View Details
Keywords: April White
Hamish Maxwell
Maxwell presided over the major diversification of Philip Morris through the acquisitions of Kraft and General Foods. In so doing, Maxwell created the largest consumer goods company in the world and... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study method... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 19 Jul 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
made significant investments in Nigeria’s energy infrastructure. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping enterprise,” he says. Elumelu is passing this philosophy on to the next generation through the Tony Elumelu... View Details
J. Larry Nichols
Nichols and his father formed Devon Energy in 1971 to tap into the expanding need for new oil and energy sources. Through a series of acquisitions and investments, the business grew to be the fourth largest... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
firms with only domestic growth opportunities? Growth in the Chinese middle class and on-the-ground entrepreneurship indicate that the most attractive opportunities will be companies that win by focusing on really understanding the... View Details
Henry J. Heinz II
Heinz II engineered immense growth for the food products firm. In his first few years as president, Heinz took advantage of the postwar boom in the American economy and took the firm public in 1946. Through an extensive and well-planned... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
considering the average likelihood of finding an acquisition partner is 8 percent. No more or less likely to go through an IPO. Landing funding and finding a buyer are considered key milestones of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
to think more like a CEO – broadly and long term. I truly believed the case method would help me to hone this skill. Support of entrepreneurship – I have always wanted to follow my family’s example and become an entrepreneur. However, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
creates an opening for entrepreneurs who can meet the profitability challenge by reexamining the whole business model — a process that might involve customer acquisition or retention, or pricing innovations. It is only fitting for the... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
Fred R. Lazarus, Jr.
Through acquisitions and organic growth, Lazarus, Jr. created the largest department store operation in the United States (including Filene’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Bullocks). Lazarus targeted the middle class... View Details
Keywords: Retail