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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Applegate said. Steve Collens, CEO of MATTER, a health care startup incubator, and Kevin Willer, a partner at Chicago Ventures, agreed that entrepreneurial activity in Chicago really started to take off in 2010 and 2011, when a critical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
down-to-earth mentality is also apparent in Hellman’s athletic endeavors. He grew up riding horses and later played varsity water polo at the University of California, Berkeley. Often attributing his athletic achievements to an ability to endure pain rather than to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES Perez and Zaldivar continue to invest in Latinx business ventures as they did at Palladium, understanding this community’s strength and influence in spite of the COVID-19-related health issues and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Math is where, historically, you see the biggest learning loss occur, and when those skills atrophy, it’s very hard to engage in the next level. Everything builds on the level before it. That’s true in other subjects as well—reading is... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
of unknowns when you begin," Anquetil says. "A start-up entrepreneur has to be very comfortable with that uncertainty. But even if you solve the problem, you still need to sell your idea. You have to demonstrate that you have the right View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
develop potential business opportunities. During our village stays, faculty leader and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu has asked us to observe and think about how villagers take care of the basics of everyday life: housing, food, income, water, View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
new faculty need to thrive in terms of both teaching and research. The Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning has been particularly helpful on this front. It enables new faculty who may not be familiar with case-method teaching to hone their classroom View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
country. I’ve been in conversations about how we might be able to partner with private sector employers who are going to lay people off. Is there a way we could get some highly skilled people to help us? I'm on the board for the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
are all experiencing HBS from the other side of the educational equation. Representing the areas of finance (Baldwin) and general management (Barrett, Hightower), they bring a potent mix of skills and expertise to the classroom - and even... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
you're in the middle of the night, in negative 50 degrees, with the wind howling and potentially wolves howling, not too far from you either. A lot of it is mental preparation and building the skills and the confidence in your own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
reinvent yourself.” “The skills that you had last year,” she declared, “aren’t necessarily going to be good enough to play the game this year.” Jung then turned to hallmarks of leadership. Character and integrity are rightly at the top of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Nevada, where Burning Man is hosted. We also provide infrastructure for the city. There has to be emergency services. There's, obviously, porta potties. There's a health center. And there's also law enforcement that we have to provide to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of these elements drift out of alignment, stars may take their talent and skills elsewhere. And should they leave, experience shows that clients and other stars will often follow. The preeminent challenge, then, for a firm’s senior... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from companies that keep his... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
high school years, but I had put it off twice to pursue other career options. I realized then that medicine required the same skill sets, and it also represented a return to service—a very personal form of service.” Cooper took a job as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
questions for leaders and potential leaders. What does it take to lead effectively now? What does leadership even mean? In Lead to Win, Carla Harris examines the journey from individual contributor to leader. She targets the essential View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
admire him for that, and did from the beginning. He always sticks up for people who are in trouble.” — Former HBS Dean John McArthur “In a single afternoon, I was stunned by Howard’s skill at cutting to the core of knotty research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
MBA students a range of possibilities for interacting with the social sector, both inside and outside the classroom. Participating in the program provides students with the opportunity to build their general management skills and explore... View Details