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- 25 Aug 2022
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On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I spent a lot of time early on...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose
Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening...
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- 28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew The facts of the ever-widening tech labor shortage are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the United States,...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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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
- 11 Jan 2019
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Case Study: Beating Bias
The idea for the Portland, Oregon-based startup News Bling was born out of the late-night hours of November 8, 2016, when Nupur Patel (MBA 2017) rubbed the fog of disbelief from his eyes and realized he had completely misjudged the results of the election. A media...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
is filling a market need, and the first-year revenue response is confirmatory. Since many events like weddings are planned far in advance, I suspect that Clay can still deploy a consignment model until it builds up the needed inventory by...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
Assistant Professors Zoë Cullen and Katherine Coffman; image by John Ritter Assistant Professors Katherine Coffman and Zoë Cullen came up as economists in largely male-dominated environments where, during their years of graduate studies...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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What’s in a Name
Late last fall, Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994) made a guest appearance on After Hours, the podcast where HBS professors discuss current events. (The podcast is part of the TED Audio Collective.) Chugh was joined by professors Mihir Desai and Felix Oberholzer-Gee in a...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
recommends. Taken together, the three books offer readers an encyclopedic exploration of the practice of experimentation, insight into some of the psychology in play, and a field primer to put it all into action, Liedtka says. Testing Business Ideas A Field Guide for...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
Illustration by Chris Gash Last spring, as the number of air travelers plummeted, airlines and their meal suppliers were left holding the bag—an enormous snack bag filled with individually wrapped cookies, salted pretzels, and cheese...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
pointing out the features that are designed to convert the casual player, who might otherwise be joining the crowds at the neighborhood rec center, into a club member. Getting out of the rain and not having to wait for court time just scratch the surface of it. Over...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is owned and operated jointly View Details