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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to some. “He asked tough questions, even hardware-related stuff,” DU alum Surbhi Sarna told Bloomberg Business last year. “...He was giving us design ideas.” Draper invested in Sarna’s nVision Medical, a medical device company for women’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that most startups View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
field of customer engagement and on his community. In addition to HBS, he and Diane support many Dallas institutions, including the Dallas Zoo (the couple is pictured on the Brierley Giraffe Ridge), the Dallas Performing Arts Center, Baylor View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
disgusted by corruption. They worry about school fees, the price of rice, the cost of fuel, and the crime rate. For me personally, Liberia is an enjoyable place. Health care is a little scary: The X-ray... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- News
O'Donnells donate $30 million to Harvard
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
dependent on their star talent and its motivation and productivity. As our economy shifts more toward “knowledge workers,” we believe that professional service firms will be a model for many other types of businesses — from technology to View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
care within the professional environment. "Not that I don't like to see business professionals in church," he says, "but I also want to see religious professionals in offices, factories, and stores, where businesspeople View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
earnings grew 23 percent and debt was reduced. The life of any CEO of a multibillion-dollar company involves long hours, and given that Anglo American has a presence in 43 countries, Carroll spends more than half of her time traveling. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all promise to offer it, in different shapes and forms. Strong leadership. Bold leadership. Tested... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In the student competition, Astraeus Technologies, a faster lung cancer screening, and UrSure, Inc., which is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image and morph into a glamorous... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Everlywell, a digital health care company founded by Julia Cheek (MBA 2011); Foodology, a virtual restaurant and ghost kitchen chain cofounded by Daniela Izquierdo (MBA 2019) and Juan Azuero (MBA 2019); and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised millions of dollars, lobbied for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush,... View Details