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05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential

change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company invests exclusively... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers

be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

voter participation, and strengthening the pipeline of leaders entering political races. For Ballou-Aares, this mission is personal. Growing up with a single mom and limited resources, riding the subway back and forth to public school,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976

businesses. “I love helping people make a large-scale impact,” says Doerr. “I’m a networker, an organizer, an unbounded enthusiast and supporter of great entrepreneurs and leaders.” When he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980,... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Addressing The Financial Security Gap

can’t solve this problem, she says, adding that some public policy initiatives need to be implemented, along with paid childcare and more flexible workplaces. Ackerley is passionate about closing the gender pension gap and furthering... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual

Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From that vantage point, Pieri... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”

employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in performance when those states... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us learn them only the hard way. Green shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business, explaining how to locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products, get serious about... View Details

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

three-month program, held at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, was designed to move entrepreneurs out of their silos and encourage them to work together to identify a worldwide problem and a high-impact solution. Through... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

Altiostar Networks, Inc. Dahod outside his Tewksbury, MA, office “The best way to deliver on shareholder value is not to focus on shareholder value. Focus on meeting customer needs and taking care of employees. That leads to success.” A serial View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

Entrepreneur Of The Year, Financial Services 2013 James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences opens at Eckerd College Tom James's entrepreneurial bent was apparent early on. An avid coin collector, at the age of 15 he began to buy and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

Entrepreneurs Win in Global Competitions BioMine CEO, Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08) Related Links View photos from the contest Meet the 12 regional finalists Listen to the faculty webinar series Learn about the 2011 host clubs Winners of the... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America

traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart producers. View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), author of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It. Deffarges, a health care entrepreneur and investor, talked about his book and the concept of complexity to a gathering of 60... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

was arguing that innovation “within the shell of existing corporations offers a much more convenient access to the entrepreneurial functions than existed in the world of owner-managed firms. Many a would-be entrepreneur of today does not... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

publication of Competing in the Age of AI, the book Lakhani coauthored with Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration. Salas was eager to be involved in this prototype of the Learning Network, and Lakhani asked... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

recently about the role they can play in changing society. But I know this is a topic you've been engaged in for a long time. What first sparked your interest in it? Lisa Lewin: I think it was probably my family. My father was a corporate executive. My mother was an... View Details

28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

he learned English while attending public schools, eventually matriculating at Harvard College to pursue a degree in economics and further his interest in business and entrepreneurship. “I didn’t really know anything about finance, but I... View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

partnership with HBS Alumni Clubs and Associations, gives alumni entrepreneurs critical exposure among fellow alumni and potential investors throughout the process, leading to seed money and in-kind consulting opportunities even at the... View Details