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- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Personalizing the Path to Professional Success for Women
Many women hit a point in their career unsure which path to take or even how to move ahead. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) has designed what she calls the ideal “playbook” with Landit, a technology startup that offers a personalized career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
generation of startups and serving as the connecting point between technology, business, and agriculture—all languages she happens to speak fluently. Such fluency is unusual, and it makes Lambert an ideal fit for this newly created role... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
research. Their surprising finding: Firms that built their businesses around the core research interests of their founders struggled the most. Specifically, Roche and Boudou found that for every 10 percentage points those two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
This year’s New Venture Competition saw heavy alumni participation on both sides of the judging. More than 160 graduates critiqued student startups during April’s on-campus event, weighing everything from team chemistry to financials. The... View Details
Sarah Leary
enterprise and consumer practice. In addition, Sarah is a member of the Board of Directors at Spindrift Beverage Co., Inc. and an advisor and mentor to several startups and founders. Sarah is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard's... View Details
Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
perspective, Y Combinator is about one word: focus. We strip a company down to its core. What service or product are you providing? How are you getting those customers? And are there enough of those customers? When I was in Chicago and making a transition from my first... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Startups can lead the way. There’s more innovative thinking, a willingness to take risks and to try new things. Eventually, these startups will get bigger and more successful, and those values of diversity... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year? That’s the problem being... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
apps allow, the team discovered a way to guide people through behavior changes with results that stick. Individuals using Gain Life’s weight loss apps achieve results that double the one-year benchmark for other methods, Eldridge says. The View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Venture Competition, is currently in use by more than 1,500 companies. Callida Energy CEO Raphael Carty (MBA 1983); Founded 2013 Reducing energy waste in commercial buildings and improving comfort through app-based surveying and learning software. Named one of New York... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
tech founder and startup consultant. Burned out, Staff took a few months off before enrolling at HBS to park a borrowed Airstream trailer in various towns around the Mountain West. That was an experiment in tiny living; in Bozeman,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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Sasha Grinshpun
have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Business School Case 812-040 Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Growing up, Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) thought she was unstoppable. Then she entered the business world. “I grew up thinking I lived in a post-feminist world, “ she said. “I saw no impediment in my way based on my gender.” Six years ago, she... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no longer exists as required curriculum!). Our team was... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
phone clean. I tried using hand sanitizer on my iPhone, which completely ruined the speaker—which was upsetting at the time but also helped inspire a better solution. “At HBS, I met Jillian Ressler (MBA 2015), who worked as a first-grade teacher in a tech-enabled... View Details
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Wendi Zhang
designing the evolution of their career and life. Wendi works full-time in Silicon Valley at Egon Zehnder, which she joined in January 2024. Immediately before her current role, she served as the VP of Business Development and Operations... View Details