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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
technology is expanding rapidly as the industry is being reinvigorated with new competitors and advanced electronics, materials, and manufacturing processes,” says Sondecker. His interest in aerospace began in earnest when patriotism...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
sells, There's enough left over after the preferred shareholders get paid out that the common shareholders get paid out. There's so many risks that startups have to go through in order to reach success, right? There's technology risk,...
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- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses....
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April White
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
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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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
significantly change the trajectory of their lives. I loved being part of that. You’ve talked about the pandemic as the gateway to the School’s future. What opportunities for HBS do you see ahead? I say this in the spirit of finding the...
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- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
like technology off and away, conversations where we're looking at each other in the eye here, and it was a very new behavior for this organization in this moment and it was an immediate way to restore empathy and compassion and...
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- 28 Feb 2019
- News
New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures
and his wife, Kristen, were intrigued by the idea of helping Harvard undergraduates with a passion for technology and entrepreneurship become future leaders of innovative ventures. So, the Robertses are excited to be supporting the...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
in the front row, he listened as famed space entrepreneur and futurist, Peter Diamandis, spoke about how certain technologies have linear trajectories and others have exponential trajectories. And space...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
venture commitments to developing battery technologies to meet the coming automotive demand, as well as the needs of countless smart devices. Truck transport, especially diesel-powered trucks, too are a major focus, opening the door to...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Madison Dearborn sold Fieldglass to SAP for four times what they had paid us—$1 billion. What a miss! In retrospect, the company had just begun its growth trajectory and market dominance. Moral of the story: If you have the opportunity to...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated the way you might expect it to be: lots of View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
of night, you would see the glow from the mills that lined the river,” he recalls. Now Motley sees an entirely new city. Along the river are the offices of medical and technology companies. “Pittsburgh has successfully transitioned from...
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April White
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Deane Falcone, an expert plant biologist from the University of Massachusetts, to start defining the science side. “I was trying to figure out the technology road mapping for an industry that didn’t have a road map and, in fact, wasn’t an...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
includes laughter, music, eating well, and finding joy at any age; the role of caregivers and their critical impact on extending your lifespan; how your environment and demographics affect aging, and how to adopt new technologies and...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
clips of alumni interviews. As a result, Garvin says, "The conversations began on a higher plane. Students asked more detailed and personal questions about how to determine if this career trajectory was right for them. Alumni were quite...
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Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit...
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- 19 Aug 2017
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Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
with fewer cows, more crops, and a growing investment in systems that will be net zero carbon emitters. In addition, he expects more food will be grown in cities and in buildings, not just in the countryside. "I think people realize that we need answers" he continued....
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