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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
organs. My husband, an MIT physicist, started a company that developed technology intended to keep a diseased heart beating while the patient was awaiting a transplant. Working with him on that start-up was a fascinating experience that gave me even more View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
fulfillment. You must share the reason why you exist and infuse it into everything you do in order to thrive. Many leaders see the shift in the market and make an effort to adapt. Companies quickly learn that one-off workshops and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
a step-by-step path to make a difference in the face of what can seem like an overwhelming challenge. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to Pal about the pandemic’s impact on both her business and on global carbon emissions, and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
underrepresented minority. The program is designed to foster mutual development, in which the junior executive receives mentorship but also provides the more senior colleague with insight into how the organization functions for those who... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Ocean? And I would argue, how do we build in those places? When markets fail, that's the role of government plain and simple in my view. And so, if something isn't insurable, you have to think about why that is. It's because the risk... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
marketing job at Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
undertaking something much more serious, leading Xerox’s entry into the Chinese market and fearlessly chastising the company’s chairman for publicizing its activities in the press. Always up for a new challenge, she also began serving on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
is a larger overhaul of the business model that goes beyond applying online insights offline to a more defined integration of those two buying environments. TT: Some retailers have different prices online and offline, but if you go to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Silicon Valley startup: “We want to bring a scaled-up version of the blockchain application to market by the end of the year.” From Baker Library: Blockchain is an innovative and complex technological advance, but what exactly is it and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
end, though, all the tools in the world won’t make you a successful mix-master. For that, you need to bring your own creativity and insights to the table. The master? Steve Jobs. When the exiled CEO returned to yank Apple out of near... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
his work in the first-year MBA Program. Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), CEO of The Baupost Group, notes, “Jay was a wonderful friend and valued mentor. He was always willing to listen and then share an insight or perspective. His kindness and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Off Your Shoes: One Man’s Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back by Ben Feder (MBA 1991) Radius Book Group A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
leading a class of 32 HBS students in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) on the Tech Startup Ecosystem in the UK and Europe. The featured panel of UK-based HBS alumni entrepreneurs, who shared actionable insights on how to overcome... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
have the chance to build their credit history other than the loan that they were being provided. So, it felt as if you needed to build infrastructure to actually help the village move up in their economic livelihoods and loans weren’t it. Morrell: That View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
earning their MBAs, almost half had broken away from a rapidly changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing up and seizing opportunity.... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details