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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
economics in 1952, he was eager to study business at HBS, where he was inspired by Professors Georges F. Doriot and John G. McLean, who were pioneers in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate competitiveness, respectively.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
venture capital firm when he and his wife, Lee Bendig (whom he describes as a “foodie”), decided to open a fresh pasta retail store in 1989 with a few seats for lunchtime customers. On the first day of business, Garner recalls, “there was... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
(MBA 1997) Founder and CEO, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi, India A UNIFIED FRONT "Businesses tend to support individual programs or schools. The impact could be much larger if corporations partnered to take collective action on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
environmental management, industrial policy, minerals management, and venture capital. A Trip Worth Taking In addition to the academic content of the conference, delegates were invited to a Cape Malay street festival, a dinner at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, left the corporate world to launch Social Venture Partners (SVP) India, which brings together concerned citizens to solve economic and social... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
entrepreneur-in-residence at the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Venture Center in New Jersey, advising startups in the energy space, specifically clean-tech. She is also an adjunct professor, teaching entrepreneurial management.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
MBA Material
Some of the 78 participants in the HBS Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) keep the conversation going during a break in activities. This past summer, the one-week program marked its 25th year of introducing promising college... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
tremendous value. He cites a number of innovators, executives, artists, academics, teachers, and role models who embody his vision of goodness. Jumping Ship: From the Heart of Corporate Australia to the World of Social Investment by... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Khanna led a session titled "Entrepreneurship and the Asian Family Enterprise," which brought together three scions of top family corporations in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Ronnie Chan, chairman of the successful Hong Kong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
Washington until the issue’s visibility moves from the level of the assistant general counsel of a corporation to the level of the CEO. We hope this book will contribute to that process by making these matters more accessible to chief... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,... View Details