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Julia B. Austin
Julia Austin is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship where she currently teaches Startup Operations. Julia is also a certified Executive Coach, board member, startup advisor and angel investor as well as the founder of Good For Her, a non-profit community for women founders that fosters their growth as they navigate their entrepreneurial journeys. Prior...
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Endless Possibilities
Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) met her husband through friends when she was only 19 years old. It was 1999, and the mobile-first app Tinder—which launched in 2012 and where Iosotaluno is currently COO—was not even a distant glimmer on the dating horizon. While the app...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
entrepreneur. Anyone who has started a company will tell you that there is enormous satisfaction and enormous frustration attached to the process.” For Byford, it’s been well worth the effort. “I’ve always believed that we pass this way once,” he says, “and that it’s...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a...
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Julia Hanna
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School; and HBS...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
from its name in January 2007. Future revisions of the case will reflect this change in the title, as well as offering the latest update on one of high-tech’s best stories. — Julia Hanna Contact the author...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Perhaps not surprisingly, Oliver “Chip” Brewer III (MBA 1991) found his first job in golf while playing the game with a friend who happened to know the founder of Adams Golf. At the time, Brewer was working in the paper industry (his first...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
coauthor and YPO member Macomber states, “We understood that we can use our experience with the YPO Forum to reach across to other people who are vastly different and see what we can do in common. We know how to communicate; we have the money and political influence....
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983, FedEx was reinventing domestic...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
when I walk in, so I guess they think I did reasonably well.” So it seems does the medical center’s board, which recently renewed Levy’s contract. — Julia Hanna
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
office in Naples, Florida. Despite his full-time schedule, Thayer says that he doesn’t feel like he’s working. His advice to other alumni who are thinking of making a career change: “Do something you would be happy to do every day for free.” — View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
be open enough to share this level of information,” says Marquis. “It’s great for the students to see that even though Tim has achieved a great deal relative to his peers, he still has a number of doubts and quandaries.” — Julia View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and the Hudson River beyond. It's a scene often associated with...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, a privately held enterprise...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
improvement science that emphasizes rapid cycles of small-scale change. Their finding that an accumulation of small changes can add up to significant gains is leading the way for health-care reform that is just as revolutionary as its legislative equivalent. — View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
consultant’s role is to keep the dialogue open and positive as we guide both sides through the tricky compensation issues. We’re trying to make the deal happen in a way that pleases everyone. Tip: If you play hardball, this will likely impact your relationships at the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
think people were emptying the bottles for the redemption value. However, a buyer who has never made a mistake is not a good buyer. You have to take chances in this business. We like to say we don’t have to go to Las Vegas because we buy for the 99. — View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
partners, and thinking about cash flow and how it works over five years do you buy this property or don’t buy that property? I always wanted to build a brand and a sustainable organization. This is the job I’ve always wanted since I was a kid. Now I’ve got it, and I’m...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
they don’t need to trade their values for value (in the words of Generation’s David Blood), however, they also come to understand that this approach has its own difficult decisions. — Julia Hanna
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- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
to a good degree,” says Kerr. But it’s too soon to tell whether they have established themselves in a way that will allow them to truly excel. “That’s where the jury is still out. They are still defining the Walmart of the future.” About the Author View Details