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- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
opportunity you both saw. Who is the audience you’re going after, and what was the gap you saw in the market? MA: This is going to sound crazy but our target is the 200 million people who read the news online in the United States. The...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
expectation in just about every consumer category—until we get to banking. Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) sees a major gap here. “Banking is a space that lacks compelling brands, just generally speaking; but more specifically, it lacks...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
employee costs. Eventually we won’t have a separate discussion about whether we should factor in ESG. There’s also a massive amount of learning that can be done among asset owners. There’s a lot of intent, but people don’t know how to execute, implement, and measure...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in...
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- 11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather stations, mostly in airports; radar,...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2003
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Jeanne Jackson
CEO of Banana Republic, with concurrent responsibility for all of parent company Gap Inc.’s Internet businesses, and, most recently, as president and CEO of Walmart.com. A skilled and forward-looking manager, she has been listed among...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate....
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
it’s a good thing to do, but because it makes good business sense,” she says. “We’re addressing a massive gap in content.” Aussie advantage: “The general perception of Australians is that we’re easygoing and approachable. And the accent...
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- 09 Jul 2024
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On Balance
in the Parliament of Victoria, has the data to back that up, too. According to the agency’s most recent report card, which looks at pandemic-era employment between April 2020 and March 2021 in private companies with 100 or more employees, the total pay View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
as if we develop a curiosity about the person’s potential. “We start thinking about how we can help this person grow into the employee that we believe they can be,” she says. Whillans and her fellow researchers are looking into whether these findings could also help...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Jan 2016
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Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this...
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- 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
investor, who launched Avestria specifically to focus on early-stage women's health and female-led life science ventures. “We need to rethink our approach to women’s health.” That will require investment, she says. “There’s a blaring gap...
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Margie Kelley
- 08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
the greater New York area to contribute, learn, and make a continuing impact. The Club supports: New York area nonprofits through Community Partners, one of the largest pro bono consulting programs in the city; workforce development through the Skills View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
have to say that social and/or economic class is still important. Part of the widening gap in America between rich and poor relates to access to education. There are communities where 95 percent of the kids go to college and others where...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
GAP See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP Since the start of the...
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April White
- 22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
bridging the gap between fashion, technology, and sustainability,” according to Ventura. Women's Association of New York Names Rising Stars for 2021 In an effort to give outstanding HBS alumnae a mid-career boost of recognition, HBS...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
that ALS was not a priority for drug developers because so little was understood about its mechanisms, making it a risky investment. “We realized very quickly that we needed to bridge the gap over the ‘valley of death’ between the...
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
engineers, architects, and teachers to connect with people who need their services but live thousands of miles away, and more. “Of course, right now during COVID, it’s helping people stay connected in ways that help fill the gap of group...
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- 22 Sep 2017
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Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
that are ideal for testing software as well as for working in cybersecurity and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says, adding Dandelion has been...
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