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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
women colleagues from other universities — all noted authorities on entrepreneurial growth — began a collaborative research project in 1998 to tease out the underlying reasons for the disparity in enterprise size and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how to build a View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Illustrations by John Ritter HBS/HU Growth With the Allston land purchase, Harvard University has begun to expand across the Charles River and around the HBS campus. How do you see the School interacting with the University (and...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we opted for a strategic partnership...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge....
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA ’82) (FT Press) Companies that cannot change in response to market disruptions die. Other companies that respond eventually survive but see their profits squeezed, their growth flattened. The long-term winners are companies that...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Johnston says these four companies represent the variety of start-ups Aging2.0 is working with: Sabi improves day-to-day life by rethinking the most commonly used products and tools to elevate everyday moments with superior functionality...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
microinsurance market. She finished HBS as a Leadership Fellow, launching Accion International’s microinsurance program in 2005. A follow-up project at Capital One, introducing prepaid debit cards to unbanked customers in the United States, gave Kapila her first...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
who took a start-up course at CWE after being laid off from her job as a pet groomer. She now owns Animal Spirits, a successful pet-grooming store in Cambridge. Next to her is Carrie, who came to CWE looking for advice on how to expand...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on further private investment,...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
business, politics, media, and the arts. With a personal fortune estimated by Forbes to surpass $3.5 billion, Schwarzman has come a long way since leaving Lehman Brothers in 1985 to cofound Blackstone with start-up capital of $400,000....
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
renovation. And although Fouraker had stopped the School’s runaway growth and shored up its finances, there were no guarantees that times would remain good, especially as the deep recession of 1980 set in. The new Dean would have to keep...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
economy has been moving at an incredible pace over the last five years,” says Diamond, who works as VP of business development at start-up ThinkEco. “We thought that if we could get some of our alumni leaders together, we could really...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
R&D," explains Yeo. "A short time later, I set up the EDB's Singapore Bio Innovation Fund to invest longterm in overseas start-ups to learn as much as possible about the nascent biotech industry. And on June 26, 2000, the day the United...
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