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- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile four AASU members with STEM backgrounds about their... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
TAKE MY SKILLS TO THE NEXT LEVEL.” HOME REGION Buenos Aires, Argentina UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Universidad de San Andres, 2010 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Lartirigoyen Group, Adecoagro, ExxonMobil Michelle Lee “TO SCALE FOOD BUSINESSES, YOU FACE... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
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
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
out from Bain Capital Double Impact with an interest in investing in Medoff’s small company in North Carolina, helping scale it across the United States. He reflected, “The relationships that were built during the Joint Degree Program... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
equivalencies between our grading scale and an A-F grading scale. If you are an organization that requires proof of satisfactory completion to process reimbursements, any employee who earns a Pass (or higher) has met our requirements of... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
registration costs and long travel and waiting time in areas with low polling station density. Similarly, there is a real need to improve citizens' faith in US elections, but again, this may be more effectively addressed by upgrading outdated voting View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
and its customers. The electronic ink technology produced by the company E Ink is an essential component of electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's NOOK. But it is an input supplier to the manufacturers of such... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Generative AI (GenAI) stands at the forefront of a technological revolution, poised to redefine how businesses operate and deliver value. Understanding the complexities of GenAI... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
as AOL (now AOL Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power.— Lynda M. Applegate The point within a value chain where maximum economies of scale and scope are created... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
R&D partners have built a pilot plant outside Columbus, Ohio, to show that this new technology works and is cost-effective to boot. The success of OCO, says Brix, lies the scale of the business. “Unlike most... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
(Oberholzer-Gee says food-delivery drivers tend to work shorter shifts, and so are less likely than other gig economy workers to use the work as a primary income source.) “This suggests that the ability to scale working hours up or down... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
not clear, investors represent good money if they're impatient for confidence in the emerging idea's profit model and patient for growth while that's being figured out. Scaling before having a viable profit formula commits resources to a... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
optional "QuickMatch" feature, which lets you rate other members on a scale of one to five. If you bestow a four or five rating on someone's profile, that member will receive an automatic message that says you think he or she is... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
the US, with our global partners on a pressing business issue. The project concludes with a 10-day trip to work in the FIELD with our partners, formally ending with a business recommendation from the HBS team. I traveled to New Delhi to work with a start-up in the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand
her own hands to break the technological glass ceiling. She decided to invest in external courses—specifically, the Data Science program at General Assembly—to bolster her data and analytics expertise. During her 10-week course, Ho... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
rudimentary auction technology that would work across the network. What was difficult was getting the right information at the marketplace. It became clear that there needed to be a whole market infrastructure to create these new kinds of... View Details