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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital, Unger explains, venture... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard to Restart Allston Development
The Harvard Corporation in September endorsed a plan to restart development of a science complex on Western Avenue across from HBS and to create an “enterprise research” campus with a hotel and conference center. In an open letter to the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
number of working women who’ve experienced negative health consequences as a result of the pandemic is 10 to 12 percentage points higher than men. It’s stress, a sense of being overwhelmed, depression—all of the conditions that occur when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not,” Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans, corporate... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive ripples in their communities and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
thing you hoped to promote. What the health care sector needs most, HBS’s Health Care Initiative said with the debut of Harvard’s Health Acceleration Challenge, is widespread... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
otherwise meet. The day concluded with a panel discussion on how to build and maintain society’s trust in business. Panelists included Bethany McLean and John Carreyrou—renowned journalists who have covered this century’s biggest View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
funders, most of whom had difficulty understanding that hygiene products are as fundamental to health and well-being as food. But the pandemic changed that: Suddenly, everyone understood the importance of a bar of soap; the organization... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
“Academic achievement opens opportunities for success, but you can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says John Majors (MBA 2000). “The reality is that some employers and educators... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
his knee on that man’s neck.” McGuire noted that COVID-19 “exposed the virus that has existed here for 400 years”—i.e., the systemic racism can be seen through the economic, education, health care, and criminal justice systems in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
access to consumer goods, jobs, and global markets. Dividing his time among corporate boards, family, and educational causes, Lemann heads a family foundation that supports education, health, the environment, and medicine in Brazil. What... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively contributing to the health of our... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
return from the program. Angella says SPNM participants represent a broad range of organizations championing arts, theatre, education, health care, addiction recovery, food security, climate resilience, and much more. “SEI’s partnership... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
electronics, internet services, health care. And they are the caregivers of their families and their communities, and so it's a huge opportunity that has yet to really be tapped in terms of really creating IP and products that really... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Goals. Whether it’s improvements in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for this type of digital financial inclusion, provides guidance to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
companies and nurtured numerous leading-edge products in a wide range of areas, including information technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. In achieving all that, it has also set the standard for integrity in every... View Details