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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more time and money than most other... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
potential candidates for the Board. Each year, the Board nominates twelve alumni to serve a three-year term. The nominees are drawn from the School's volunteer corps of class secretaries, club officers, Fund agents, reunion committee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
easy; finding a business model that was going to be sustainable was the hardest. There was a lot of competition, people weren’t purchasing things online yet, funding started drying up, then the Nasdaq crashed. We had to figure out how to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
nonviolent communication. Students study computers, science, English, business concepts, and even yoga. With a program completion rate of over 80 percent, Navarro has received funding to begin the next phase: replication. “My goal is to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
in China. “I’ve always been interested in both reading and education, so when I saw a padlock on an unused library at an orphanage we visited in Ecuador,” he recalls, “it made a huge impression.” Even with funding and good intentions,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
population. It went from 6 in the Class of 1969 to 27 in the Class of 1970 and 58 in the Class of 1971. LEWIS: The School funded our recruitment trips during breaks and the summer between first and second year. The Dean also provided... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
from the very beginning.” With the generous support of Howard Cox (MBA ’69), HBS offered matching scholarship funds and needs-based financial aid to broaden the program’s reach and impact. Once in the classroom, participants work their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep working on things that are really complicated in a View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
access—but, incredibly, the program hadn’t been updated to support the shift from dial-up to broadband. By the end of 2014, the FCC expanded the funding for broadband to nearly $4 billion a year. The team found that in 2013, less than 10... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
practice of management worldwide. The influence of the campaign is already visible throughout HBS, from Spangler Center to Hawes Hall to the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The campaign has also raised significant unrestricted funds to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
first Jakurski Family Associate Professors of Business Administration. Their chairs are funded by a gift from André R. Jakurski (MBA 1973) and his wife, Maria, and are part of a new effort to invest in the development of the School’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
people in dedicating a year to national service far outpaces the number of available slots. In 2009, Congress passed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act to expand the opportunities provided through the federal agency that oversees Ameri-Corps, but then put View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
had I not received assistance from HBS.” Currently the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Christensen earned his MBA in 1979 with the assistance of two fellowships: the Sidney J. Weinberg–Goldman, Sachs & Co. Fellowship and the Donald Kirk David... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
impact investing was doing in other parts of the world, and we thought that it would be a very good trend to bring back investing to Africa, given what else was going on. “At the moment, our Impact Fund is focusing on rural development.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
The Difference Fellowships Make
be possible without support from alumni and friends. Over the years, some 600 individuals, groups, and organizations have established fellowship funds, and every year, thousands of donors support fellowships through the HBS Fund for... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and Charles R. ("Chuck") Lee (MBA '64), chairman and CEO of GTE Corporation. Edelman, who established the CDF in 1973, received the club's Leadership Award and was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
Margaret J. ("Marki") Ware, Lydia M. Marshall, and Margit L. Pearson attended the Class of 1975 Women's Reception. Former Alumni Board president Charles F. ("Monty") Milner attended a session with classmates from 1965. Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean and... View Details