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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
simplified the application process, asking business owners for only a bank statement as part of their mobile-based loan application, and delivering funds to successful applicants within 48 hours. “The joke we crack is that with most...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique
The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing wearables market by its thin,...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
budgets of most business schools. Each year, schools and businesses around the world purchased millions of copies of HBS’s famous case studies. Something like 6,000 young people applied each year for admission to HBS. Of those, about...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
returning to the familiar. Rejected by every Formula One team he pursued, Varma chose the “familiar” option after HBS and initially returned to work in London with Ziff Brothers Investments before joining one of Europe’s leading hedge funds, The Children’s Investment...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
and is going to succeed? It’s a multi-period, high-uncertainty-that-needs-to-be-resolved kind of process.” Sahlman’s revised framework soon proved a useful tool for understanding the seemingly chaotic world of entrepreneurial finance: “It...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Everyone remembers their first real job—in part, because it’s everyone’s first experience with a new and foreign world of work. But it’s also because those first jobs can...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World War to its handover...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
get to talk with them and get acquainted. We learned so much about what’s current in consumer and tech, and enjoyed hearing about their experiences prior to HBS and their summer jobs.” Patty McKenna (MBA 1988) “It was such a great opportunity to get to know an alum,...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that...
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- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
been cast in earlier, better times. “My parents were very hard-working, ethical people who instilled in us a sense of duty to country, family, and community,” says Coupounas. “They made it clear that we were expected to do all in our power to make the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called Families Against Rotten Teens (F.A.R.T.), a secret society of grizzled parents whose...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
comment is spoken in an offhand way, but that ability to understand how a business will scale has been a key factor in some of DFJ’s enormous multiple returns. Today, DFJ spans affiliate networks in more than 30 cities around the world...
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Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
TraceTogether. It subsequently became both the subject of his book’s final chapter and the focus of a case Weiss coauthored and taught this fall in his Public Entrepreneurship MBA elective course, which is designed for MBA students who are thinking about founding,...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work
HBS. While the world of work is nothing new to either of these young alumni, they each acknowledge the significance of this initial year in their post-HBS careers. Although they came to Soldiers Field with different backgrounds, goals,...
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and structural changes in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late...
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