Filter Results
:
(13)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(13)
- News (14)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(13)
- News (14)
Page 1 of
13
Results
Faculty
Julia B. Austin
Julia Austin is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship where she currently teaches Startup Operations. Julia is also a certified Executive Coach, board member, startup advisor and angel investor as well as the founder of Good For Her, a non-profit community for women founders that fosters their growth as they navigate their entrepreneurial journeys. Prior...
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same time—impossible. Like changing a...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
companies, Senior Lecturer Julia Austin has a more nuanced understanding of this reality than most—and a few pointers for anxious founders to keep in mind. “It’s still unpredictable, hard, and illogical in some ways,” Austin says of the...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
That’s the imperative of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator, established in 2016 with a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, led by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), in partnership with HBS and the Broad...
View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its founders’ strategy for winning in that specialized, competitive market is driven View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
Described by Julia Child as “the quintessential American cook,” James Beard died in 1985, leaving a long legacy of cookbooks written, chefs mentored, and many, many meals enjoyed. He also left a townhouse in...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
Founded in Sweden in 1943, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer, outfitting dorm rooms and designer homes around the globe. A company that engages nearly a billion customers every year and employs over 194,000 workers in 49 countries has plenty of upside...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to...
View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Dan Bejar Tom DeLong’s love affair with teaching began at Hosford...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring...
View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell...
View Details