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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
organized by the school to go to Silicon Valley. Tom Eisenmann, who had been our entrepreneurship professor, was one of the leaders of that. And both Michelle and I ended up on that trip. It was a really interesting time because it was... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to The Honorable W. Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975), United States Senator; the Entrepreneurship Award, given to Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995), founder and CEO of The IDW Group LLC; the John C.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
opened the James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences. A trustee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, James has funded numerous programs that encourage youth to get involved in the sport. If there is one endeavor in which Tom James... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Duda has seen in the food world, in his 30-year career, is the number of people who work in food services who don’t work in kitchens. That’s where Duda feels he can make his biggest contribution. Since 2007, Duda has held leadership roles in the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
years as an analyst at Susquehanna International Group, Anquetil began launching a series of medical technology companies. The first, in 2006, was Aretais, Inc., which developed a continuous, accurate, non-invasive blood glucose monitor... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
technical expertise and gain the business skills needed to commercialize an idea or lead a tech venture. They practice design thinking, build prototypes, and pitch their ideas to potential investors. During the summer, they work on their own startup concepts or View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in short-term consulting projects.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
URLs. “Names have the ability to cross international boundaries, and the naming and branding sectors have ballooned over the past three decades,” says Master. “The power of a name has only grown over time, as has the risk of getting it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
as pursuits like marketing or law. RELATED HBSP Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures Immigration is such a hot-button topic in politics. Do you hold out any hope that your research can provide a more balanced perspective? I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
community-building events. GLOBAL RESEARCH CENTERS AND OFFICES HBS’s 11 global centers and 7 regional offices are the nexus for the School’s international research and activities. This ever-evolving and expanding network of outposts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
sales, Anthony Curry Harris, and his director of international sales, Damaune Journey (MBA 2005)—are hoping to buy CSECO. Harris says that would certainly give him more time to serve on boards, such as the nonprofit SFJazz, which recently... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
Kemp took a leadership role in helping to communicate the needs and concerns of international students to the HBS community, make the student elections process more efficient, and increase the availability of on-campus housing for... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
terms, but he embraced blogging, which was a radical idea in 2006 because people thought it would destroy our brand.” In other words, the magazine—a carefully thought-out and meticulously produced product—would be compromised by less polished, more off-the-cuff... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
happen to move money. Technology is core to what they do, and it has been core to what they do forever.” (photo by Chris Sorensen) New York even had parts of the proper ecosystem already in place. As HBS professor Josh Lerner, an authority on View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
off-the-grid locations are difficult,” notes Risher. “For schools in these areas, e-readers, which are rapidly coming down in cost, are ideal.” With a one-time donation of 30 Kindles from Amazon, Risher launched Worldreader last winter in a small trial at an View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
place across sectors, especially health care. “We also witnessed inventions that went awry.” Weiss relates that in March, he had just completed the final draft of his new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about the relationships you foster within an organization. At the end of the case, the individual had not fostered his internal relationships well (not enough blue lines) and was fired from his job. At the time, I thought this was... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios