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- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped create the Pathways Fund, a $50... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
of the large funds did raise money last year, so I wouldn’t be surprised if their success represented an unnatural spike in the fundraising cycle. Was it more difficult to raise money five or ten years ago? Oh yes, it was much more... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
to zero. Are you concerned about the projected $2 trillion in government borrowing that may be necessary to cover the Social Security funding gap created by the President’s partial privatization plan? No. The unfunded liability of Social... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer The government used to be America’s greatest innovator. Among many things, it developed or helped fund the creation of the Internet, GPS, microchips, and even Cheetos. (True... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
raised $750,000 in seed funding from HBS alumnus Robert Doris (MBA 1977) and billionaire investor Mark Cuban. The HourlyNerd executive team graduated from HBS in May, but the company has already grown to 20-plus employees, including... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from various angel investors, two rounds... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
indoor-generated contaminants to maintain good indoor air quality. The IRA will accelerate the adoption of proven technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology by providing funding for state and local governments to adopt more... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
circle: “The sacrifices my parents made for my education were truly unbelievable, which is why I feel an obligation to pay it forward through different scholarships, including my fellowship fund at HBS.” Back to top Robert B. Wilson (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
involved with grassroots organizations in the Los Angeles area such as the Coalition for Clean Air and Heal the Bay, which is dedicated to cleaning up Santa Monica Bay. Through the Horn Foundation, which they founded in 1989, the couple also contributes View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
notes that HBS Ventures generated more than $80,000 for the SA this academic year. "By subsidizing items like yearbooks, as well as social events and intramurals, those funds cut students' costs dramatically." During his tenure, Mitchell... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
lot of money—we’ll bring this in at under $10 million, and that includes some reserve for the first several years of operation.” Funding came from private and public sources, including a grant from the National Endowment for the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 grant to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
supervising the funding of various Student Association events. The good-natured Bolick's affinity for people reflects a deep interest in cultural diversity developed as a child living abroad, reinforced as an undergraduate majoring in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
number of mothers have thanked me personally for Pushpins. We created a successful enterprise, bringing value to society and to our investors, and that’s a model I want to repeat again.” Michailidis has designated his own gifts to HBS to View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Reservoir; fund a permanent New England Forest Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; and establish an environmental scholarship at Harvard College, his undergraduate alma mater. Another Zofnass project in the news recently... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a worldwide movement. And now we accept donations to help fund the worldwide movement and share the ethos, which has been a really wonderful part of becoming a nonprofit. Hanna: Great, and why do you think Burning Man has been... View Details