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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students edited by...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín Curiel Curiel with Elizabeth...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled lives back in Boston, where...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
for being the top field-hockey school in the country. Its premed program was also highly respected, and Fisher, who was majoring in biophysics, realized she had to make a choice. She chose science but ultimately deferred her medical...
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- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
various team members and stakeholders. We try to regularly use our own products, so right now, while everyone is working from home due to COVID, I often have my Facebook Portal video calling device tuned in to working group meeting, or...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated...
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Deb Blagg
- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
startup to Dropbox, Carpenter is the protagonist of another case coauthored by Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld (MBA 1996). “Steven Carpenter at Cake Financial” details his efforts to build and grow an online financial services...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
military telecommunications or beam the Super Bowl worldwide? Joseph Landon (MBA 2007), VP and CFO of Planetary Resources in Redmond, Washington, one of the space startups pursuing asteroid mining, estimates there are about 400 active...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping his father build a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says...
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- 11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience
On her newborn’s one-week birthday, Somani learned she was in the early stages of a particularly invasive and aggressive form of cancer. Her maternity leave suddenly turned into a medical leave to accommodate 10-plus rounds of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop
medical technology business from a spiritual retreat center in Florida. —Jinny Uppal (PLDA 9, 2012) Favorite? Not sure I have an answer on that but I’m nearly done with The Codebreakers and just finished Professor Tom Eisenmann’s book,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on companies in the health,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
section focusing on the startup phase (taught by Professor Patrick Liles) and the other on operational problems and strategies (taught by Professor Dick Dooley). Dooley went on to pioneer the Smaller Company Management Program (now the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
—Shereen Shermak, HBS Rock Center Entrepreneur-in Residence and CEO of cryptography company Nth Party Remote-first labor is the greatest boon to software startups since Amazon Web Services. No role in a SaaS startup, from engineering to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
startup in the direct air capture space, focused on discovering materials that will make carbon capture more efficient. His company, Carbon Vacuum, won the 2022 New Venture Competition’s Tough Tech Prize. Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023) is...
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- 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
health care, inequities in female-specific disease areas, and the role of FemTech startups in disrupting women's health care and empowering women. Linda Greub (MBA 1987) Stasia Obremskey (MBA 1987) Alice Zheng (MBA 2014) Linda Greub (MBA...
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Margie Kelley
- 03 Dec 2019
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Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
(and has since sold) a startup company that lets people connect over a home-cooked meal for a small group. Hosts post dinner details and interested guests can register to attend. “Building Bridges is based on that,” says Gupta. “But we...
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Margie Kelley