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- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 22 Oct 2014
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Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
when they leave high school and head off to college. “I took what I thought would be a temporary leave of absence in 2003 to help get the school started, and [now] over 70 percent of the students that go to school here are pursuing STEM...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
academics for an exploration of new economy themes ranging from getting back to sustainable business models to the emerging wireless landscape. “Over the past year, we have seen a flight to quality in the technology market, where MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance
parlor, as an early source of entrepreneurial influence. Her advice? “Do for yourself. Do for your people. Provide a quality product.” Cyberposium Building Leaders for Technology January 17–19, 2003 Sponsor: HBS View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
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Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
motivate them to see just how high they can jump by believing in them and giving them the freedom to perform.” Sue Decker’s successful Wall Street career began at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where as an equity analyst, she consistently...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
Technology Industries association anticipates offering two or three of these events a month. Established last January, the club is already two hundred members strong and has high hopes for success. "We want...
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- 06 Aug 2015
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Making coding cool
20 years in the tech sector, is encouraging middle school and high school girls to learn the language of the 21st century as a board member of Girls Who Code. Women are underrepresented in the tech industry and, too often, Maybank says,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
seemingly simple business that continues to demand new approaches to management and product design. Attention to the simplest details, it seems, can lead to dramatic change. Jim Sharpe of Extrusion Technology laughs when he describes some...
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- 30 Sep 2024
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The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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@Soldiers Field
Twenty-five students from Brighton High School toured the Chao Center construction site as part of the Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance’s City/Build project, which teaches students about design and engineering. On campus to kick off the...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Full Circle
and joining the Sterling Group, a boutique M&A and LBO firm. “You’re playing the game at a fairly high level, and you have this Harvard MBA, which carries expectations and provides great opportunities,” says Anderson. The compensation...
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- 16 Nov 2020
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Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
the hospital—so sick they have to get to the ICU and have a high risk of dying,” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000) told The Washington Post. “If a [vaccine] could prevent 95 percent of people to not get disease, but to not get severe...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological innovation, developing...
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- 05 Jun 2018
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Fueling the Future
of Covenant House, a shelter for homeless and trafficked youth in Manhattan, and volunteers at ESchool4Girls, teaching entrepreneurship to high school students. “I love the fact my background in science and business allows me to make an...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
School graduates on every continent, there is such potential for this institution to make a real difference in the world. Our family is proud to be able to play a small role in helping to make that difference." Three stories high with...
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- 13 May 2013
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Alex Popa, MBA 2007
long-held passion. “I was deeply involved in the sciences in high school and at Stanford, and I truly believe genomics is the business field that will lead to the fastest rate of innovation in my lifetime. As an investor too, I see it as...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Rent Out Your Ride
Shelby Clark (MBA ’10) recalled passing “dozens of cars that hadn’t been driven in weeks, and it dawned on me that there are these high fixed costs, so perhaps we could leverage this resource” (New York Times, September 10, 2010). So...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand
It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared,...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
most companies, the financial risk remained too high to justify the potential reward—a situation that too often led to dangerous vaccine shortages. It was at this moment that Moderna turned its attention to vaccines. The company had been...
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