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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding from a variety of sources,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
where venture capitalists, angel investors, and other funders of early stage businesses can and must step up to make a difference. Higher Purpose Venture Capital dives into 50 business ventures that serve the “double bottom line” of...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Angeles for the premier Hollywood Trek, where they joined a total of 45 HBSers interested in the entertainment industry and the Internet. Meanwhile, in London, more than 90 students from the School were experiencing a full agenda of...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
that more and more cities may zone or franchise waste collection, restricting the number of operators (and emissions) while improving safety in designated areas—as Los Angeles has done, with New York soon to follow. Every landfill is at a...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
black-box entity linked to a start-up with a dollar sign. A Los Angeles native, Wasserman, 32, met his wife (now a practicing obstetrician) as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received joint degrees in...
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- 07 Nov 2008
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Obama's foreign policy picks
- 27 Oct 2008
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Economic crisis hits as Brazil builds
- 01 Jun 2010
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Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- News
BOOK REVIEW 'The Execution Premium'
- 04 Oct 2008
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Brazil's Lula takes center stage in Latin America
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
This year’s New Venture Competition saw heavy alumni participation on both sides of the judging. More than 160 graduates critiqued student startups during April’s on-campus event, weighing everything from team chemistry to financials. The alumni version of the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Star Turn
helping to set up HBS’s intranet service. At the urging of former Dean Kim Clark , he enrolled in the MBA Program. On his switch from academia to the private sector, Royo explained to the Los Angeles Times (December 6, 2009), “Back in...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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New Face at Facebook
“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles...
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- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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RallyPoint a Winner
i-lab, RallyPoint won the $100,000 MassChallenge start-up competition last fall and was a runner-up in the 2012 HBS Business Plan Contest. In December, it announced that it had raised $1 million from angel investors. As Weiss explained to...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Family of Clubs & Associations Expands
The network of HBS clubs and associations continues to grow, with recent additions bringing the total to 91 worldwide. Three new groups recently received recognition: the HBS Angels Alumni Association, the HBS Christian Fellowship Alumni...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
company, HOMErgent, see as ideal for disaster relief and globally sustainable affordable housing. “For less than $2,000, we can provide better housing than what most people in the world already have,” Zwern told the Los Angeles Times...
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