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Peter is the Founder & Managing Partner of Stellation Capital, an early stage venture capital firm headquartered in Brooklyn. Prior to this, he spent eight years as a Partner at General Catalyst, a venture... View Details

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

attitude, and I think it was directly attributable to the presence of minorities and women in the class. They were really pioneers, and I think they made the whole school a more human place." One View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan View Details

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

so business and leadership were really the world that I grew up in and I realized pretty early that business could be an incredibly powerful force for good and for general human flourishing, as well as a pretty powerful source View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma,... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

you’ll face as you begin your next chapters in your careers. Harvard Business School is itself amid its own transformation, so much of what I have to say comes from personal experiences and observations. My thoughts focus on three View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

actively and openly to others will remain a vital human skill—and the essential duty of every leader. The second behavior is what I call And Thinking . And Thinking refers to a leader’s ability to reject or... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

belief that to prepare managers well, we have to change. What we're doing in Asia has grown out of that belief. We need to create new intellectual capital to underpin our goals at HBS. Thus, we must deepen... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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Casey Gerald

throw in the towel. Eventually, with support from HBS alumni like venture philanthropist Arthur Reimers, who wrote a check for $50,000, and an infusion of capital from such outlets as the Rock Accelerator,... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

and policy. And I think that bedrock had been reset, but it took a while for the market to understand that. So a lot was education about how we do layered moderation with layers of rules and human moderators... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

succeed in that context. The "graduates" of this school would have finely honed operational skills in managing quality programs, process improvement teams, and cost-control efforts. Even the most... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

tax policy. Of course, these issues have been faced by human society forever, and resolving them with a definitive answer is impossible. My research, rather than trying to decide which idea View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

homes—things like restaurants and taxi companies. Over the years, though, even those small openings were further restricted or rolled back, the relationship between the government and capitalism remaining antagonistic. But in 2010,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

Illustration credit: iStock / Topp_Yimgrimm Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At the HBS reunions in 2019, the Skydeck team set up shop on Spangler Lawn and asked alumni... View Details

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

teamwork in decision-making, the challenges of group decision-making, and the strategies for engaging team learning skills and attitudes to improve both the quality of and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

entrepreneur into a successful business leader. In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

environment for CEOs, dedicated to improving the quality and profitability of their life and enterprise, through shared experiences and personal growth. Today, the CEO Clubs is a worldwide phenomenon with... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

Broom, came from halfway around the world. The vice president of human resources for the cosmetics giant EstŽe Lauder International, Inc., she had just completed an assignment consulting on staff issues with... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

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