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- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
would sleep for two hours, so I would aim to work for an hour to an hour and a half each day. If it didn’t happen, I’d make up for it at night. There was a period of about two weeks when he was waking up every half hour. I sat by his...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
Harvard. “The sense of urgency can be overwhelming, but it’s also empowering,” says Nash. “We need policy and government to bring innovations to scale, but business is where innovation begins.” We sat down with Jennifer Nash to ask her...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
to be paid. Hodgson, who is president and CEO of the parent company and a former entrepreneur-in-residence at HBS, sat down with the Bulletin to talk about how these unlikely entrepreneurs used their differences to their advantage, a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
complicated than we typically think,” she says. Huang arrived at that conclusion after interviews and observations of more than 100 angel investors over the course of the past decade. She also conducted dozens of interviews with the entrepreneurs they funded; View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at least 5' 10" with 1400...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
point during the spring semester of our first year, I realized that my section was having a long-term conversation. We weren’t just discussing the cases in each class, we were having a conversation that had begun the first day we sat...
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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
happen.” “Deep foreboding” is the opposite. How could the present moment be both? The paradox exemplifies what we heard at these events. Speaker after speaker called this year “a crossroads,” an “inflection point,” a “precipice.” As I and hundreds of others View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and...
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- 17 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)
professional and personal outlook? HBS’s case method thrives on diverse opinions. When I first sat down in Aldrich 008, the classroom for my section, I heard so many different accents and opinions. My sectionmates hailed from over 30...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a...
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- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
A spicy chickpea dish © Kirti Poddar on Flickr When Dean Nitin Nohria sat down for an interview with us last September, we asked: "What do you like to do for fun?" His answer: "I love to cook. I'm vegetarian, and I cook Indian and Italian...
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- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
passion she'd had since childhood: food. "We always sat together at the table for dinner," she says. In her adulthood, "I used cooking to recreate that warmth and connect with friends." Although "going to culinary...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you...
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- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
You can get anyone who has children who need help, right now, it’s 13 years and over, but there’s math, science, and SAT help. Live tutoring. You can get on particular subjects. You can join a cohort that meets regularly. And we now in...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
approach to the dilemma. "Several years ago ... as a board we sat and discussed this very issue... [and decided that] the board should be prepared to sell to a lower bidder ... But the discount should be set by a third party [group...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
The HBS Investment
seemed a nuisance at best, a career limiting move at worst. So why did I attend then? This summer, I had the privilege of working in Berlin and sat as a panelist for prospective students in Germany who were thinking about applying to HBS....
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- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated...
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
to ensure underrepresented minorities are able to get on and stay on the path to senior leadership, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques connected with friends who shared their passion for investing. Their group of six sat together in Tingle’s...
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- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
minorities are able to get on and stay on the path to senior leadership, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques connected with friends who shared their passion for investing. Their group of six, including co-founder and current Harlem Capital Venture Partner, Brandon Bryant, View Details