Section 10(b) - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

28 Sep 2023
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Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

School and in the world of business. Here, in honor of Pride Month, we hear about the role the student club played in the lives of some of those who belonged over the years. 1970s “I was scared to death that someone would figure out where it came from, but I typed up a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

(DPI), a leading pan-African private equity firm based in London with over $3.1 B under management; and Victor Williams (MBA 1998), CEO of NBA Africa, which is transforming Africa’s profile in the world of global sports. He is the former... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

mistake in admitting me, to a sense of self-confidence that I could hold my own in any company. I will never forget Hesper Silver. And if I do forget, my comrades from Section B will be sure to remind me at... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

they coped, 52 percent told themselves the harassment wasn’t important, while only 9 percent issued a formal complaint with their employer; 10 percent fell in the same camp as Dixon and decided to leave their job. The survey’s findings... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Cofounder and activist in residence, B Lab UK Kim Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) Global Ambassador, B Lab and Head of Impact, B Lab US & Canada Business as a Tool for Activism BIO... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

Haft (MBA/MCRP 1977) launched Crown Books in the Washington, DC, area, with plans for rapid growth and a pitch sure to set the chain apart from the growing market: lower prices. Crown’s books were discounted 10 to 40 percent every day, an... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2025
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Forum

Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2023
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Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

father. Imagine being told as a child, “You have to get all As next semester. One B isn’t good enough.” For his part, my father was relocated to internment camps for American citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. His... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018). She’s... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

conjunction with the Olympics. Peterson had created a small academic competition in Orange County called Academic Decathlon, in which teams of high school students with a range of academic skills would participate in 10 events—including... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self

bit about each one of them? Amy Jen Su: Leader A and leader B was a heuristic that I created to try to describe what people were describing to me out in the trenches. Leader A is the part of all of ourselves—it's like a mode we have when... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

and series B financing? Dodi: Definitely. The bulk of venture capital comes from institutions, whether they be pension funds or endowments. But their ticket, their minimum investment size is typically $10 million or even more, and they... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Making Dreams Attainable

classroom. For these reasons, in particular, the School is continuing to strengthen its efforts to make the MBA Program ever more accessible and affordable for a wider array of students. The stories in this section showcase the work the... View Details

11 May 2018
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Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact

in 10 years we would have helped to empower 100,000 developers in Africa which takes us to 2024," Sulyman told CBS. Andela’s early returns caught the attention of Mark Zuckerburg and Priscilla Chan, whose Chan Zuckerberg Initiative led a... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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From Das’s Desk

forged ahead to create more virtual programs, at a pace of 5 to 10 per month, covering topics from leadership, civic entrepreneurship, happiness, and capitalism, to artificial intelligence, climate change, and much more. The clubs also... View Details