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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Alumni Books Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams by Evan Baehr (MBA 2011) and Evan Loomis (Harvard Business Review Press) Now that you have your big idea, how will you find and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
created the Ellerin Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of Bunny Ellerin (MBA 1995), who launched the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association 1999 and has held many leadership roles in the health care sector. It is awarded to an outstanding... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
example, the Rock Center Fellows Program subsidizes students working on an existing startup or launching their own, and the Career and Professional Development Fellows program aids career changers, such as those interested in the luxury... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
HCZ has captured the interest of government and community-development leaders nationwide and inspired anti-poverty efforts such as the Promise Neighborhood Program, which was launched in 2010 as part of President Obama’s Neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
of academic research programs and initiatives. For example, we launched an open and global "ideas challenge" to generate research topics around type 1 diabetes, with $30,000 in awards. Winning ideas came from diverse actors, including an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
global significance. Like many great innovations, it all began with a simple question, in this case from Khan’s nine-year-old cousin, Nadia: “Sal,” she asked, “can you please help me with my homework?” So how did Nadia’s request launch a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
highlight of the conference was the announcement of a partnership between the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), the AASU, and the Boys & Girls Club of America to launch "Connecting Through Caring," an initiative led by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them.... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
consequence,” he says. “Our yields are comparable to conventional crop yields. We can prove it. These guys have done this for seven to eight years.” Wiviott and his partners plan on doing a series of partnerships and funds, and are hoping to View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
first published in 1985, became a bestseller that went through 13 US editions. Eager for a second act, Clifford retired from McKinsey in 1984 at age 51 and started his own consulting firm, Threshold Management. He also joined HBS classmates Al McDonald and T.J. Dermot... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
building and launching satellites. But one thing I’ve been interested in is, have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will fund the big, expensive, life-changing, pathbreaking technologies? + ONLINE... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
do is take technology and combine it with human nature to create meaningful products.” After she graduated, Matthews did a stint at a startup, but soon left that position to help launch Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
launch a start-up based on the technology. Did all of the projects lead to viable business concepts? No, and that’s an essential lesson. A lot of the ideas don’t work, and the students hate that. But it’s reality when you’re dealing with... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
circumstances. Last year, he launched Social Venture Partners (SVP) India is a spin-off of the Seattle-based nonprofit that pools philanthropic activities in a local area, in order to focus financial power on effectively solving local... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
to satisfy a greater overall demand for coverage focusing on the intersection of political and economic issues. That shift is reflected in Capital Report and other new programming launched in February, which also includes more live,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
the enemy north of the berm and launched a missile. The missile impacted, at which time a civilian bulldozer operator leapt from his vehicle and began running away. Major Gurfein, realizing his mission of breaching the berm was in... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg