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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
tracking a handful of things, I enjoyed it. And it was entirely a singular thing, I didn't really even share it with friends, I wasn't making public statements of, I promise my Facebook friends I will hit X metric by Y date. But then I... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
having kids,” Kraus says. “You need to see that it can be done.” If the first step in increasing the number of women in tech leadership is role modeling, notable HBS alumnae in the industry are leading the way. Women who aspire to be tech leaders can look to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
risk-adjusted outcomes? Morrell: Look, it’s easy to understand why the Valley model is viewed as the ideal. Facebook is worth some $720 billion. Amazon is worth $1.6 trillion. Those are gaudy, attractive destinations for any startup.... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
She's also the founder of Moms of Black Boys United, a nonprofit with over 170,000 members nationwide that had an unexpected start in 2016 as a private Facebook group. When she wrote the first post that started that group, McGruder was... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
movement as there is, say, in the tech space. I might have worked at Google for two years and then Dropbox for two years and Facebook for a couple years, and you know, there's a lot of cross-pollination of what are the best practices in... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
problems? JP: Our early education staff are reaching out to families to check in and help address the challenges that they're facing. They’ve also provided weekly lesson plans and asked kids to share their work online through our Facebook... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
obesity is contagious: If my family and friends are obese, the likelihood of me being obese is much higher. Later studies refuted that claim because of the inherent problem of homophily, which simply means that birds of a feather flock together. If you buy a particular... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his efforts on a View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
from mobile devices. Next, social media, in the form of Facebook and Twitter, became the information workhorse, serving two roles. Initially, social media was used to engage fans during the buildup to Super Bowl week. That included... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
the virtual. To actually think: How do I hold space for folks in a Zoom, in Instagram Live, on Facebook Live? How do I make my concerts and my performances adapt to meet virtual instead of desperately trying to make virtual feel like the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
route and find existing communities in which mothers are already congregating—in churches, through schools, on Facebook groups—and incentivize intensive word-of-mouth. “When people love the product, they recommend it to others in their... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
overwhelmed, Alene continued production, providing face shields free of charge to more than 300 organizations across a dozen states. Among the media outlets that featured the effort were ABCs: Pandemic What You Need To Know, The White House View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft as well as other leading companies. Entrepreneurial Negotiation: Understanding and Managing the Relationships that Determine Your Entrepreneurial Success by Samuel Dinnar (PMD 76) and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
make sense for everyone. McGinnis: FOMO is not uniformly bad, because it may be that your FOMO informs you about what your desires are, things that you actually want to do. If you see somebody, on your Facebook and you see somebody that's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
attractive place to invest. The investment and venture capital cycle is continuously changing, and one of the most fascinating internal discussions is often around where we’re in the cycle. When you first evaluated Facebook three years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
People don’t spend a lot of time corresponding on Craigslist. They set up a mutually agreeable time to see the merchandise! I also do a lot of coaching on social media. You absolutely need to have a Facebook presence with just as good a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
help. First, he used a genealogy website that showed him that the surname had a high concentration in the Detroit area. And then, he ran a targeted search on Facebook for the name in that area. There were some hits, but no luck on a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Facebook make a 100 percent return, society doesn’t question it—it’s absolutely fine to make money if you are a smart investor or entrepreneur or just plain lucky, glory be to you,” says Rangan. “But just imagine making—on the backs of... View Details