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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
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
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, several goals in addition to providing students with a common "foundation" for entering the MBA Program were sought and achieved by the module's planners. "We tried to build a sense of community among the...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be successful...
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April White
- 19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
today’s hot topics that all nonprofits are addressing, says Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998), Executive Director for HBS Community Partners of the HBS Association of Northern California, and summit co-organizer. “Our goals for this summit are...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Millennium Development Goals which range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, they provide sustainable benefits to a developing community for multiple generations, and they...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
they have. The accelerator brings together research foundations with relevant datasets and analytics companies to leverage the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with the ultimate goal of identifying models that...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
innovative ways to address hunger relief from multiple angles. That conversation left me excited about the prospect of being part of GBFB’s current and future work in serving Eastern Massachusetts communities and addressing food access.”...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
that were bringing financial services and capital to the poor using a business framework rather than a philanthropic one. “That really struck a chord with me,” says Chorengel. “There are going to be multiple firms like IGNIA, and then...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
upscale, premium desserts to the masses. Elevator pitch: Finale is an upscale dessert-focused restaurant concept that provides people with an alternative to bars or coffee shops, where they can enjoy a sensational dessert experience. Our View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
the private individuals behind the more public personae. For complete profiles, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/. Photos by Webb Chappell Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA ’85) Founder and CEO Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
different time zones, so you have to trust that they’re going to wake up and respond to you at the first available opportunity. But just letting go is hard, I guess. PC: I couldn’t agree more. It has actually been very eye-opening: As long as you are enabling your...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
90 students to break into multiple small groups or reassemble as a whole. Moon calls the hives a breakthrough in how to foster a different kind of teaching and learning. While the FIELD course has garnered most of the attention,...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
predominant use case we have in mind is shared rides. Fully driverless cars can be optimized for the passenger instead of the driver, so we see a scenario with multiple types of cabins, and people can call up the one most suited to their...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing. The Question: The company’s...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
goals we are chasing are the correct ones.” In I Moved Your Cheese, a few maze-busting mice teach us that many of the presumed constraints (mazes) we face are self-imposed and that we underestimate our ability to alter our circumstances,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
particularly the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues related to corporate boards of directors. Montgomery is the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our View Details
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Susan Young
- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor...
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