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- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
intermediate fix—even more pressing. “An open problem is whether you can train a generative AI model from scratch on your own data, preserve privacy, and still have good utility,” says Neel. Differential privacy—the practice of...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This
The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall." Badaracco believes part of knowing your audience is the ability to listen. "Communication can't always follow the top-down model," he says. "With the fluidity of...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Feedback
mills. The Why: Of the 110 million tons of food waste generated annually in the United States, 75 percent ends up in landfills or incinerators, making it a leading source of CO2 emissions (10 percent of greenhouse gasses can be attributed...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup
valued most from the fellowship program—and from my time at HBS—is the cohort of peer founders and the ability to compare notes and share stories and challenges.” HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES VENTURES AT THE HARVARD INNOVATION LABS Since View Details
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April White
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
greatest risk from the disastrous effects of sea-level rise. Yet cities also have the ability to act without waiting for state and federal action, adds Raphael Carty (MBA 1983), former CEO of Callida Energy, a software startup focused on...
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- 23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live...
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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
young experimentalist the time to explore his curiosity. JF: Yeah because curiosity creates a space for ideas to come in from the outside, right. And that gets to another idea in your book of collective intelligence and open View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
jewel. It is a source of innovation, invention, and cooperation that serves the broader Harvard community.” Noting that this year is the i-lab’s 10th anniversary, Crisp said, “The i-lab has already proven to be a very valuable resource....
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
back this new technology as some customers and companies voice concern about the privacy surrounding electronically transmitted information. Shikhar Ghosh (MBA '80) and his company, Cambridge, MassachusettsÐbased Open Market, Inc., have...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
traditional approaches in building enterprises, their governance, and growth.’’ The technology is open source, so different teams can build together. Participants value open information flow, universal...
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April White
- 11 May 2023
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How FOMO Became a Fixture
It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the genesis of the phrase, the impact...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
the board, the Dean, and the faculty is very open and candid. It's clear to me, and to all members of the board, that our ideas and challenges are valued and that they do make a difference." It is this easy interaction that fosters the...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985
Purchases Software House 1993 Appointed Board of Trustees, Amherst College; first female president, Society of the Alumni 2011 SHI International opens new headquarters and cloud computing data center 2012...
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Susan Young
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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