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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
an astronaut. After selling Stylus, he briefly indulged a long-held passion by studying jazz piano, before settling into a spectacularly successful career as an entrepreneur, building and selling three tech companies — Direct Hit, Xfire,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
Photo via Profile Magazine Photo via Profile Magazine It seems that Keith Krach (MBA 1981) has never met a tech segment he didn’t like—or disrupt. Over a 35-year career, Krach has built four game-changing companies, in the fields of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
domestic green energy industry that is going to be just as great in wealth creation as was the tech revolution in the 1990s.” Markey, chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, was a special guest speaker... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
Web Extras Experiment Fund President’s Challenge US–China trade relations exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center New Venture Winner an Undercover Success Angela Newnam (MBA 1996) did not set out to be an entrepreneur. But the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
you have a massive production of lithium-ion batteries––that’s the technology of choice today––which brings scale costs way down. So, as EVs grow, that’s going to drive down lithium-ion prices. “You’re going to have a huge demand for... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS Selected from more than 90 worldwide entries, 12 winning regional teams will travel back to campus on April 25 to compete in the the 2nd annual Alumni New Venture Contest finals. The contest, hosted... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
ultimately lies not on the R&D or the tech itself, but rather in the scale of the business. “Unlike most of the chemical or energy industry, where you have to build mammoth plants in order to be economically... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
Divided? The Economic Geography of Business (David Collis) China: Understanding a Business Environment (Regina Abrami) Israel: The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital “Miracle” (Dan Isenberg) Boston: Healthcare: Science, Delivery, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
organization to go beyond "very good" and attain and sustain excellence. In his latest book, he shares his hard-won insights and reveals what it takes to be best in class in any industry. Tech and the City: The Making of New York's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and professional fulfillment. The book includes thought-provoking questions for reflection to help readers make a similar transformation. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (MBA 1998) (Spiegel & Grau) In 2015 Ellen Pao sued a powerhouse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
superpower: Innovation. In this episode of Skydeck, we’re kicking off a three-part series called “Out of the Valley.” It will focus on the work of Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010), a venture capitalist and author of the book, Out-Innovate: How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
and lots of wasted energy. With blockchain, every party could validate their portions of the transaction securely, remotely, and quickly. “Right there, you say, ‘OK, there’s clearly an opportunity.’ ” Before it could start, Northern Trust had to get the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
are women, CB enjoyed a net income of about $73 million in 2008. According to Labarthe and Danel (aka “the two Charlies”), a high profitability rate is necessary to convince investors to take a risk on a relatively unknown bank; it’s also the surest way to gain access... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details