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- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
Leahy as a parent and professional: she is building an iconic brand while doing her part to build a brighter future. The Lily Pad Strategy for Career Growth Achieving a CEO role is a goal shared by many HBS students and alumni, so we...
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Winners & Success Stories - New Venture Competition
Winners & Success Stories The New Venture Competition has been the launching pad for many ventures, and not just from the winning teams. With more than half of HBS alumni classifying themselves as entrepreneurs at some point in their...
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- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
write about a personal past experience that fit one of five categories: unethical, ethical, positive, negative, or neutral. The participants mostly wrote about commonplace actions (cheating on an exam or padding an expense report, for...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Saathi Amrita Saigal, Kristin Kagetsu Social Enterprise Track Winner Provides affordable sanitary pads made from waste banana tree fiber to women in rural India Tomato Jos Mira Mehta, Nike Lawrence, Shane Kiernan, Jared Westheim Social...
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
graduation. (deadline on October 1) The New Venture Competition Alumni Track: The New Venture Competition Alumni Track serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential...
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- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live...
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- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer
a faculty member’s area of expertise or passion. We caught up with Professor Len Schlesinger, who taught the Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer (DTC) SIP with Matt Higgins of RSE Ventures. They designed this SIP to serve as a launch pad for...
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- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
that this multimedia case becomes the way the Tulsa Massacre is taught everywhere in the world,” says Desai, “and it becomes a launching pad for people to begin having conversations around race and reparations that can only be had when we...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
projects over time, you should gain some sense of how fast the complexity is increasing. Pad your timelines aggressively to account for the larger number of things that are going to go wrong.” "Before a high-stakes product launch, Apple...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Hurder, who then headed to a coffee shop and began scribbling equations on a pad of paper. (The team has worked remotely from the outset, with Hurder based in Pasadena, California, and Barrera in Jersey City, New Jersey.) In the end,...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
session, Professor Beshears will lead a mini case discussion that serves as a launching pad for a presentation illustrating the power of the “choice architecture” approach for influencing the behavior of customers and employees....
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her...
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- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
dangerous—18 astronauts and cosmonauts have died during spaceflight as of 2018. Accidents can set a company’s program back months or years. One of Virgin Galactic’s test pilots died during a flight mishap in 2014, and a SpaceX vehicle exploded on the launch View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings affordable sanitary View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
NFL Players Hit the Books
Thirty-five NFL players traded their shoulder pads for notepads in late February to participate in an Executive Education program designed by the HBS faculty to help them prepare for careers after football. The NFL Business Management and...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says Scharpf. The Rwandan venture will manufacture and market...
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Stephanie Parker
considerable power and influence? Apparently not, or at least not me. Mine will be a life of service. You won't find me padding around on the soft carpet, sipping coffee in an ivory tower, engaging with others in ways which are long on...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
In March, Dean Srikant Datar and HBS staff gathered with winners of the 25th annual New Venture Competition at HBS has long grounded its students in both the theoretical insight and practical experience needed to conceive and launch enterprises that solve challenges...
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- 24 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys
plans.Grand prize: Hikma Health Runner up: Gramhal Crowd favorite: Hikma Health View Video The Alumni Track serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors,...
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