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- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
disturb native forests for firewood and lumber. Aracruz also buys and preserves areas of threatened rain forest and conducts numerous other View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
played a crucial role in shaping the career paths of many HBS students. Class Project to Religious Quest Like the businesses that have sprung up from the contest, origins of the HBS Business Plan Contest can be traced to a classroom...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted
Roma, although the more successful of the two sides, and it’s only through superior social skills that I am able to have a productive relationship with Raffaella. In all seriousness, beyond the evaluation...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
pretty similar to what the company would normally fund,” Krieger observes. He and Nanda captured their findings in the working paper, “Are Transformational Ideas Harder to Fund? Resource Allocation to R&D View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers
When Priti Rathi Gupta (OPM 49, 2017) was 16 years old, her father handed her his investment portfolio and asked her what she could make of it. She was befuddled. "He realized that, although I had schooling in what we call commerce, I didn't really know much about...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
for the pickleball but stay for everything else. It takes a staff of 30 to provide this level of service, and they’re just six months into operations by this point in November. Like every startup, the team has been busily View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
Is it the ability to navigate in the choppy waters of change? Do leaders see the hidden opportunity in every setback? Is there really any such thing as a "born leader"? Five HBS faculty and some prominent alumni offer their perspectives...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,...
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- 22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
initiative with an unlikely acronym: YALP, the Young American Leaders Program. Launched in 2015 out of the School’s US Competitiveness Project and convening every June, YALP brings together 10 leaders from...
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- 20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75...
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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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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
not exist previously—a year after the project ended. Today, he is CEO and managing director of Godrej Consumer Products, the group's largest and most profitable company. Godrej...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
years after graduation,” explains Perlow. The following year, she led 17 students in an independent study project that asked hundreds of alumni to consider what they wished they’d known while at HBS and what...
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- 24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
center—moms who will no longer have to spend hours commuting each day, and who will return home in the evening to find their kids crafting projects using the 3D printer in the building’s Teen Shack. Despite...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
We're not providing a digital subscription, we're providing a subscription to an actual product, although it's invisible, in the real world and that means that the amount that people are willing to pay is much higher. We take a 19% fee on...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
moment? What new business opportunities could come from the efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change? Over the course of several days, we are releasing a selection of alumni responses in the hope...
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