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Angela Q. Crispi

Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the execution of the School’s strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the... View Details

Chip Bergh

Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

there.” When they met up at a Global Networking Night in 2019, the two agreed they could combine Ayengar’s experience with launching the Singapore club with Weintraub’s business development skills to reboot the Seattle club. After an... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reapplying to HBS

introduced a line of products in a new geography, and launched a new product development process in the company’s highest growth business unit. Surely, my perspective—both what I might contribute and the learnings I’d now internalize in... View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

for a year, first with commercial formulators, and ultimately finalized the recipes in Woods’s Cambridge kitchen. Each of their launch products—the Eden, Lacewing, and Tandem—satisfies one of three major flavor profiles (fruity, herbal,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

leadership, and a willingness to change. “We started as a GoFundMe, and when we reached the point of either closing up shop or launching an organization, we knew we weren’t going to be day one experts,” noted Kenneth. “But getting... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

California, I stayed engaged through extracurriculars, including screening and judging 200 pitches of entrants for AASU’s Black Venture Competition.” He also seized upon an independent project, collaborating to launch Nucleate Eco, an... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

“What was exciting was that we had the full technology ecosystem represented. We had CEOs and entrepreneurs who had gone from startup to launch to IPO, and we had CEOs or CTOs who were representing large, multibillion-dollar, global tech... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

technology is launched externally for small businesses. After a corporate-wide restructuring, Bracaglia moved to Alphabet’s life science firm, Verily, where he worked on Liftware, a counterweighted spoon that maintains stability – a... View Details

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

It was founded by Rockefeller and Ikea foundations and the Bezos Earth Fund. GEAPP launched at COP26 with aligned investments of $10B+. It is an alliance of preeminent philanthropic, government, donor, multilateral development banks,... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

are not overwhelmed by the forces of “business as usual.” At the same time, the established units are shielded from the distractions of launching new businesses; they can continue to focus all their attention and energy on refining their... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

evaluating and launching new solutions in Subscription SaaS, Marketplace and Consumer spaces. She has passion for building zero to one, having also incubated a couple companies over the years – a real estate tech company with NYC-based... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

in the Boston area. [Image: Unsplash/ThisisEngineering RAEng] What does it take to launch a product in this market? Share your observations in the comments below. View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

08 Sep 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

optionality to stress less about what the next step in my career was and focus completely on learning as much as I could during the two years in which I worked. I absolutely think you should do it and leverage the ability to use HBS as a further View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

the push toward lean manufacturing. Beer cites a manufacturing company whose CEO was committed to improving quality and launched a lean training program in multiple plants. The effectiveness of that training was hampered in plants where... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

China going forward. Google's announcement has also disrupted the plans of a number of important business partners such as Samsung and Motorola, who were all set to launch Android-platform handsets in China. I doubt those partners were... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021. Lauren H.... View Details

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

time. There are currently no limits on RAM (memory). This may change as we find that underuse of requested RAM (RAM wasted) is a significant problem. If you launch 3 Stata-MP4 sessions on the NoMachine server (which consumes a total of 12... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

most platform launches fail, what mistakes should managers and entrepreneurs avoid? Yoffie: We see four common problems across the data. The number one problem is how to price the product. The vast majority of platforms require subsidies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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