Filter Results
:
(2,451)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(7,674)
- People (42)
- News (2,451)
- Research (3,173)
- Events (23)
- Multimedia (104)
- Faculty Publications (1,636)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(7,674)
- People (42)
- News (2,451)
- Research (3,173)
- Events (23)
- Multimedia (104)
- Faculty Publications (1,636)
Sort by
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
online dating sector, which includes Hinge, founded by Justin McLeod (MBA 2011) in 2011, and Coffee Meets Bagel, founded by Arum Kang (MBA 2011) and her two sisters in 2012. But all three alumni-run...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doriot Papers Arrive at HBS
founding fathers of the venture capital industry. Georges F. Doriot was born in France in 1899 and came to America in 1921. He attended HBS for one year, headed to Wall Street, then returned to the School in 1926 as an assistant dean,...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
In the Spotlight
time to board work with other cultural institutions, although “it’s clear that NYCO will take up the lion’s share of Baker’s time in the near future,” declared the Opera News (September 1, 2007). In an interview, Baker noted that the NYCO was View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
marketplace while its people enjoy a high and rising standard of living. Vietor, with HBS collaborator Matthew Weinzierl, associate professor of Business Administration, and Marvin Bower Fellow, has found that US fiscal policy is eroding...
View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
Educating a nation of children is Hüsnü Özyeğin’s (MBA 1969) investment in Turkey’s future. The successful self-made businessman and philanthropist is focused on eliminating disparities in education. He has founded dozens of schools and...
View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very...
View Details
Keywords:
Walt Disney Studios
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro,...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
wide-reaching networking system. The club also continues to generate volunteers for the Tax Assistance Program (TAP), a nonprofit venture founded by Robert M. Burke (MBA '99). Through TAP, volunteers help residents in underprivileged...
View Details
Keywords:
Amy Burton
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
on life and later my career path. At HBS, I started thinking about how many young people never get the chance to go to college for reasons outside their control, including the disadvantage of discrimination. Largely due to a concern for helping this "forgotten half,"...
View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
Langer has served as executive director of the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), a leading patient advocacy and educational nonprofit based in New York City. “As a patient, I found it very hard to get...
View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
music, but not fashion, which is an extremely nuanced category requiring constant training and retraining of the model,” says Koen. Stats: Founded in 2018 and launched in May 2020, The Yes currently employs 40 and is the subject of a...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
supplied fuel for generators, he learned that diesel costs $35 a gallon and that one US soldier is killed or wounded for every 24 fuel convoys, Wired.com reported (April 27, 2012). Now retired from the military, Naval Academy and MIT grad Moorehead View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Maurice Pinto, MBA 1960
so glad I listened to him. It was the best educational experience I've ever had." After earning his MBA and working on Wall Street, Pinto joined the family investment business and eventually cofounded Sea Containers, a container leasing company in London. In 1990, he...
View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Bauerly (MBA 1996, MPA 1996) and his team know that investing in their own state will only make the state—and Granite Equity, in turn—stronger by contributing to quality jobs, community commitment, and the bottom line. Granite Equity itself was View Details
Keywords:
Finance
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Personalizing the Path to Professional Success for Women
The business launched in March 2016 and has found clients among a diverse population of women and companies that cross all industries and geographies, says Skeete Tatum. The platform has a range of offerings from personal brand and...
View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Shaping Singapore
Trained as an architect, Koon Hean Cheong (AMP 173, 2007) was initially disappointed when she found herself in a planning role in Singapore’s Public Works Department after graduation. “It wasn’t where I wanted to go,” she told The...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Who, Me?
online, specifically to Tickle.com, a social interaction Web site founded and run by James Currier (MBA ’99). “Tickle is an interpersonal media company about everyone’s favorite subject: themselves,” Currier explained to the New York...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
Washington, D.C. Business Alone Can’t End Poverty The cover of your March 2007 issue asks the question “Can business end global poverty?” Perhaps you are unaware of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD), a business orga-nization View Details