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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
alone and later with several junior colleagues—undertook to understand decision-making both on the entrepreneurship side and on the financing side. He soon started seeing interesting patterns. The... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 25 Apr 2014
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Helping high achievers achieve even more
venture capital firm that has invested in, and provided strategic guidance to, more than 365 businesses across North America, Europe, and Asia. Stamps passed the torch to his management team in 2001 so that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
ten careers for the 1990s, with 50,000 to 85,000 new chefs needed annually. What's behind this boom? A big factor has been women entering the work force; they don't have as much time for shopping and cooking. Today, that traditional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
in horrifying slow motion. A nation mourns. Families grieve. Even though it’s my movie, it always ends the same way. I feel helpless, powerless, and lost. It’s a far cry from the way I felt twelve years ago... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Sustaining a commitment to the environment
Pound Ridge, New York, Zofnass and his family established a 250-acre nature preserve (with a 10-mile walking trail). In addition, he created a two-mile "tree identification" trail (the East Side Zofnass... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Longtime Harvard Athletic Director Retires
titles, 46 of which were won by the class of 2017, a new Harvard record for most conference titles by a graduating class.” “My family and I are tremendously proud and very... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
and homeless veterans. “Our firm’s family properties are mainly three-bedroom townhomes. For many of our residents,” Freeman says, “these are the first modern, safe, and secure... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education. Curiel cofounded Rising Farmworker... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
the book, which is equal parts memoir and how-to guide, Zee Clarke (MBA 2008) shares her own experiences as a Black woman in corporate America and how discovering mindfulness techniques transformed her sense... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
negotiations to supply Wal-Mart with her family farm’s pumpkins and watermelons. Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she... View Details
- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
family glass, most of which I found was by Westmoreland, and the fortuitous closing of the company at about the same time, my seven-year investigation was launched. Then, when I found that Westmoreland had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
HBS increased funding for 206 students in the Class of 2023, 41 of whom would not have received a fellowship had their circumstances not come to light. Financial aid for students from middle-income or working-class families also has... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
software. So when a family friend suggested that Marietta use talent from eastern Kentucky instead, he promptly set up a pilot office in Letcher County, just northeast of Harlan, View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
for bringing new life and direction to the program, which was started in the 1970s at the time of Boston's school busing crisis. In her work, Wiley draws on her own experiences pursuing a consulting career View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
costs the organization 9 to 15 cents per dollar to identify and enroll recipients, execute the transfers, follow up, and conduct other administrative work. Mark Lampert (MBA 1988) was an early investor in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Even as a preteen, Jennifer Porter Anderson (MBA 2013) was convinced there could be a better, more compassionate alternative for criminal justice than locking people up in large, violent prisons. What began as a family dinner-table... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
2010 that leverages the popularity of NBA basketball to help middle school students master the fundamentals of math. “STEM skills are driving innovation across all sectors today,” Daugherty notes, “but 67 percent of eighth graders nationwide View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
independent Buddhist country and destination of the HBS alumni travel program in October. “Visions of Bhutan,” a twelve-day trip that originated and concluded in Bangkok, brought together eighteen alumni,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
the toughest person I know—except for my cofounder. I had a mortgage and three sons, and I was the primary earner in my family during the economic crisis. But building a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint