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- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
from his spirited partner Sam, Finn continues pursuing his dream of being recognized as an elite athlete through unrelenting challenges on and off the water. Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization By Rob Bier (MBA 1998) Wonderwell Smooth View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
scales. "Everybody has got a little bit of each in them," says John Kotter, who admits he is sometimes guilty of using the dichotomy in an effort at simplification. "It's much better to think in terms of measuring people on a zero-to-ten View Details
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- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
I cherish and enjoy! My job involves bringing in new customers, retaining and growing business with current customers, leading new projects, developing new products, spearheading new technology drives, meeting investors and stakeholders,...
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- 04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which,...
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Amy Crawford
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Bridging Business and Engineering
in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) To build on the technology skills he acquired in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) came to Boston to pursue an AB in engineering at Harvard College, but...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
Currently an adjunct associate professor at NYU’s Stern School, where he teaches about commercializing carbon-reduction technologies in the course Disruption, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact, Carty points to the significant potential...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
the feedback loop that enables the faculty members to quickly investigate, iterate, and produce scholarly content. “Having a platform where we can meld these challenges with our ability to scale the intellectual problem-solving is a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 May 2023
- News
Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Last week, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the sports betting startup Wagr, which was cofounded by Mario Malave (MBA 2020) and Eliana Eskinazi (MBA 2020). "Yahoo Sports offers us a stage to build products...
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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovation to develop technologies that create energy using the earth’s renewable resources. We can move quickly when a solution is promising. We can deploy capital in flexible ways to scale solutions across...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest...
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- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
Dubai to Saudi Arabia and beyond. "There are almost 25,000 short-term rentals here in Dubai and 550 companies are operating them," he said. "These are often small companies that do a great job, but in a piecemeal manner. They don't necessarily have access to View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
in hand in 1950, McDermott returned to West Point to teach economics. In an environment that valued conformity, he introduced assignments in his courses that appealed to each cadet's strengths and interests. In 1954 he began to apply this approach on a larger View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
you have a massive production of lithium-ion batteries––that’s the technology of choice today––which brings scale costs way down. So, as EVs grow, that’s going to drive down lithium-ion prices. “You’re going...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Here, alumni and faculty experts weigh in on some of the assumptions about a hyper-connected world. The upgrade to 5G will be revolutionary for consumers. The arrival of 3G, which delivered the iPhone to the world and made it mainstream, was the stuff of real View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Nov 2014
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The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
one-stop destination for women worldwide. To get there, we are focused on scaling user growth by bolstering our technological tools and community engagement. Ultimately, by having users submit, interact...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
change. JM: Primarily all of my focus for the last 10 or 15 years has been in climate and sustainability and the impact that that technology can have as it scales to meet the size of the problem that we're...
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