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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed his training as a cardiologist, the self-described... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
In Africa, shea butter is sometimes known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from skin care to stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey shea-nut trees across the wilds of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
children. “We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher education and research, such as the Bharti School of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2014
- News
Start-up Takes the Legwork out of Shopping
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes With InMobi and now Glance, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia from the ground up. Growing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
consequences over the next 10 or 20 years. We keep that long-term impact in mind as we explore new technology investments for our network." They both note a shift taking place as more nontraditional hires, like themselves, replace... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Uncharted Territory
things didn’t go according to plan. There were issues with manufacturing and shipping the balls. As CEO Matthews knew she needed to make a change: “We’re never going to make the best soccer ball," Matthews recounts to Business Insider. "So why can’t we just partner?”... View Details
- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
Backed by $50 million in capital from three movie studios, startup Atom Tickets is planning a nationwide launch this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cofounded by Matthew Bakal (MBA 2004), Atom is entering a market as “first serious challenge to Comcast Corp.’s... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
But Wilcox has been at the helm of world-changing companies before. Prior to his latest venture, Transatomic Power, Wilcox (MBA 1995) was the CEO of E Ink, the company that created the display technology for the Kindle, Nook, and other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not
response on a weekly basis. Remento’s AI technology turns those recordings into stories that can be published as a book. The Why: Greene treasures the home movies he has of his father, who died when Greene was 10 years old. When Greene’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via online communities. The chamber... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in math, using the phone and Yahoo!’s Doodle site. Soon, the San... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- News
A New Take on the News
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
They offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon (Wiley... View Details