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- 24 Feb 2025
- Podcast
From W-2 Job, To Startup Life, To Acquisition Entrepreneurship
In May of 2024, after a self-funded search, Brian Seeling became CEO of PGM Service, a Florida-based company that focuses on maintenance, service, and repair of commercial food equipment. His journey to become an acquisition entrepreneur is distinct in that he first... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship
Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
reflecting an outstanding career.” “Peter Crisp has played a leadership role in venture capital. His name and reputation will guide our work to further entrepreneurship and innovation at HBS and at Harvard,” said Eisenmann. “I am honored... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 31 Oct 2015
- News
Social networks, ethnicity and entrepreneurship
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
WATANABE: A primer for all ages on how to think entrepreneurially. Photo Courtesy Portfolio/Penguin Group USA In business and education, Japan and the United States seem to alternate as inspirations for one another, and Ken Watanabe (MBA ’05) may be the latest guru in... 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 has pledged up to $1 billion for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
change through the development of new materials and a different approach to teaching; it’s also transformed many institutions through the integration of entrepreneurship into... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
The 1995 earthquake that devastated his native Kobe, Japan, was a turning point for Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993). “It made me realize that I wanted to revitalize Japan’s economy,” says Mikitani, who also sponsored relief efforts during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- News
‘Lean Startup’ Revolution Sweeps Through Business Schools
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
number of mothers have thanked me personally for Pushpins. We created a successful enterprise, bringing value to society and to our investors, and that’s a model I want to repeat again.” Michailidis has designated his own gifts to HBS to fund fellowships. “I’d like to... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
With a background in consumer health care at Johnson & Johnson, when Beth Burrough (MBA 1991) joined Mom’s Meals Nourishcare as a partner and chief marketing officer in 2006, she already understood the company’s potential to improve the lives of seniors and medical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to pursue this goal has been... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Educating children through inquiry-based learning
Kim Frock (MBA 1987) cofounded the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. The independent school... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
an American beer revolution in the same way that Sam Adams the patriot started a political revolution. Finally, the question I’m sure you get all the time: So many people dream of opening their own breweries. Does it make sense to? Is this still a sector that’s... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
Transforming India Through Agricultural Innovation
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded, globally, each year. She saw an... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) is on a mission to help keep millions of people around the world from dying needlessly. “Right now, 2.4 million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases,” says Schrader, cofounder and CEO of Vaxess Technologies. While the cost... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
must be carefully utilized in light of its far-reaching implications for a company's many stakeholders. "Once considered a rare event, restructuring has become an important part of everyday business practice," Gilson asserts in Creating Value View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
With the study of entrepreneurial management flourishing at HBS, the challenge to find and support new faculty and to fund curriculum development is more pressing than ever. Recently these needs were recognized by the Class of 1975 View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry