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- 01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and...
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Jennifer Mele
- 01 Dec 2023
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Leadership Transition for External Relations
MESSAGE FROM ANGELA CRISPI AND DEAN SRIKANT DATAR To: HBS Faculty and Staff From: Angela Crispi and Srikant Datar Re: Leadership Transition – Janet Cahill, External Relations We write to let you know that Janet Cahill (AMP 189) has decided to step down from her...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments...
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- 09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink
payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost access to traditional capital,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2023
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Spray Canon
Taylor Callery Taylor Callery When street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for $110.5 million in 2017, famed art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) told the New York Times that the artist was “now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation
discussions that make the case method such a powerful learning experience. In a related step, for the first time this year, we are offering an RC course called Data Science for Managers to help students, as general managers, use data...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of finance after graduation have...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
retribution. Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future By Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and Venkat Venkatraman Harvard Business School Press Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can...
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- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Engaging Students More Deeply
Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter...
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April White
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
technology adds an increasingly dynamic dimension by dint of its exponential power to boost output while reducing costs through speed and efficiency. Another feature of technology, its ability to produce innovation, can also quickly...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
trip to Baker Library/Bloomberg Center, which holds the largest collection of Medici business records outside of Italy. The Medici family came to power in the early 15th century and shaped life in Florence for centuries, influencing...
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April White
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History
power over state laws. You may have learned about the federal negative in an 11th-grade American history survey course that careened from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War in just 180 days. But it’s unlikely you learned about it...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press
didn’t exist before.” Growing basketball on the continent entails addressing the logistics and marketing challenges inherent in trying to scale any operation across 54 countries. It also poses a deep cultural challenge—the kind where the...
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Dan Morrell
- 26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets 2013-15 Named Most Powerful Woman in Finance by American Banker 2016 Joins Board of Directors, Robin Hood Foundation Chief Executive Officer, J.P. Morgan...
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- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly...
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- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams...
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