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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
into the VC industry but that we also retain those currently in it.” —Madeline Keulen (MBA 2019), vice president, Victress Capital Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, general trends on gender diversity were moving, slowly, in the right... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
features are designed to attract foreign companies. (As of 2009, some 60,000 residents and 418 companies or research centers were in New Songdo, or pledged to be there.) Forty percent of the city, constructed around a Central Park–like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
administrative decision-making as academic dean of the Kennedy School, says that firms from the financial services, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications industries have expressed interest as well. Adds Bazerman, a prolific scholar,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
flew off the shelves, the Neutrogena brand gained strong consumer loyalty. By 1994, its squeaky clean image, clever niche marketing, and high margins attracted the attention of health-products powerhouse Johnson & Johnson, which acquired... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product demonstrations and entrepreneurial workshops. The two-day event View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
attract more capital. It’s a challenge that we’re addressing with an $18 million capital campaign structured like an IPO.” So far, says Chertavian, Year Up has managed to raise $14 million — and counting. Charley Ellis (MBA ’63) The... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
the ability to have a longer-term vision. One concern is finding a way financially to compete with the rest of Silicon Valley for talent, so we can retain top people for the long haul with attractive compensation. Our total invested... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
mountaineering. How long have you been a climber? Tom Vogl: I've been a climber most of my life actually. I started climbing when I was in high school and have continued really through my adult life. And I'm increasingly as I have spent time working in the outdoor... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
enterprises as it is to startups. Gaining Speed Following Stevenson's return to HBS, two events in the early 1980s helped shape the study and scope of entrepreneurship at the School. The first, a 1983 colloquium on entrepreneurship chaired by Stevenson, View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi capabilities to View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
talent, so we can retain top people for the long haul with attractive compensation. Our total invested capital to date is equivalent to the budget of a small elementary school, and we’re reaching 4 million students a month. So the social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
a great event." What made the New York/New Jersey region a unique challenge was having two of everything—two states and their associated agencies (New York and New Jersey), two host teams (New York Jets and New York Giants), and two sides of the Hudson River from which... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made their start-up pitches to a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details