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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
natural-language processing underlying Watson could master Jeopardy!, what else could it do? With Jeopardy!, Watson had mastered trivia, become a better Wikipedia. It had done this by gaining what was in essence multiple advanced degrees...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
goal — getting the task at hand done right. This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the institutional level: International businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
radio spots 23,000, TV spots, and 588 billboards. And the goal of that campaign was for 80% of those teens to be exposed one of those ads five times a week. Well, you do that for you know 62 weeks and you've done some pretty heavy...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
process more broadly to a variety of strategic challenges and at multiple levels throughout the organization. Teaching by Heart by Thomas Delong, Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Harvard Business Review Press Teaching by...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your goals? ROBIN SMITH Robin Smith (HRPBA 1962, MBA 1963), chairman, Publishers Clearing House. Tequesta, Florida Given the times, my goals were modest; interesting work and a chance for advancement were foremost in my mind. Right after...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
pharmaceutical executive at the time of her diagnosis with multiple myeloma, an incurable, rare, and little-researched blood cancer, Giusti went on to found the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
issues and help us get to the US goal of zero-carbon emissions by 2050,” she says. In the early 2000s, Harper moved into nonprofit consulting, working for clients such as the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Charles River Conservancy,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
School's Web portal — and the multiple databases available through eBaker (the Baker Library Research Center) are examples of underutilized yet extremely valuable services that need to be properly marketed to alumni. The Continuing...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising $232,000 toward a View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
age. Combining this market opportunity with the huge waste of returned goods from e-commerce, we saw the business case—and from there it was all execution.” What short- and long-term goals do you have for the company? Momchil:“The...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
than in satellites. Approximately half of all satellites launched today are CubeSats—shoebox-sized satellites that can be made for $50,000-$200,000 and launched for $30,000-$500,000 on board a scheduled flight that has extra cargo space. For that price, companies can...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad
Company’s Dallas office, where he had worked from 2008 to 2011, including a stint in Stockholm. As a manager at Bain, Losee has led consulting teams in client engagements across multiple industries. He graduated in 2008 from the Honors...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
public health” mandate; and extending patent life proactively in areas such as Alzheimer’s to help open up the supply of new drugs. Is there a framework in another country—could be a hybrid model of multiple developed or developing...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
between agreement on the [private equity] fund, the commitment on the part of investors into the fund, and the closing—it gets measured literally in months, as opposed to days,” he says. There’s the signing and mailing paper contracts, untold emails, View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
knows, an inspirational business concept is only the beginning of a long and complicated journey marked by unexpected obstacles at every turn. The successful entrepreneur must possess an unshakable belief in his or her goal and - as the...
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- 26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
ecosystem, soils, and climate to build customized seed pods with multiple species of trees and plants and nutrients to support germination. After the drones plant the pods—at a rate of two pods per second—the trees will be monitored over...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
Cohort 3.3 3.3 3.5 Average satisfaction with job offer (on a scale of 1-low to 7-high) Total September Cohort January Cohort 6.1 6.1 6.1 True to the spirit of innovation at HBS (one of the main goals of View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
Learning, videotaped multiple sections of a number of first-year courses in order to have side-by-side comparisons of how different faculty members approach the same course. “Video is a great tool for coaching,” says Emmons, who reviewed...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
International that required arriving at 3 a.m. to talk to clients in Europe. “I told them that I could close $20 million of business if they sent me to London,” he recalls. Fine, they said—but if you don’t, you’re fired. Khoja met his View Details
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Julia Hanna