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04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We are only as good as our experiences. I think of every setback as an experience to make me stronger, more marketable and a better executive or entrepreneur. While I... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof

chief of Operations. “We have photovoltaic panels on a portion of the roof, and we run a cogeneration plant in the basement that uses natural gas to fire a generator to help power the building, with the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

destroying individuals and families. In recent years, as the opioid crisis swept the country, the organization shifted to a broader focus, re-branded as the Georgia Prevention Project. Now Langford wants to stem the spread of opioids with... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington," Harmon says. "Enan's ability to relate to people and explain opportunities in Egypt to members of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

then perpetuate this bias. That was the first time we really thought to ourselves, OK, we have to-- we really have to look at this. And as we did, we realized, hey, there's some ways that we can use artificial intelligence to correct for... View Details

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

through asynchronous learning. The other exciting thing would be our ability to reach many more learners and think about ways in which we might support lifelong learning for our MBA students in a powerful... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

BULLETIN: We should probably begin with the most obvious question: Is the job turning out to be what you had expected? CLARK: I'd have to say yes, but more so. I assumed there were many things I had to learn about the School and its... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

leadership, computer science education is a place to start. That’s the logic behind groups like Girls Who Code that combine the power of role modeling with an early introduction to computer programming and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500 scene—first growing eBay from a staff... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

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