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- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
Valley, work and learn from amazing people, and launch and manage new product lines in the home services space. For someone who is passionate about startups, living in Silicon Valley is extremely exciting. Every day you get to witness the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
forced to work from home in the pandemic, it pivoted from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo,... View Details
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
bottlenecks in engineering processes so teams can be most effective? In my two years at Harvard, I built numerous products aimed at addressing this challenge—leveraging courses, professors, and program-specific bootcamps to dig deeper... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want to call the shots myself.” After View Details
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- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the alumni directory, with the goal of better serving alumni needs. The Lifelong Learning Committee, chaired by Richard Decker (98th AMP, 1986), identified three areas of focus: researching the level of alumni interest in specific educational programs, examining alumni... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
Research Agenda Author:Roberto Verganti Periodical:Journal of Product Innovation Management (forthcoming) Abstract Recent studies on design management have helped us to better comprehend how companies can apply design to get closer to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
jobs focused on energy, cleantech, environment, and sustainability. Opportunities exist in virtually every industry, from consumer products and technology, to investing and real estate. In the most recent graduating class, the top five... View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
She thrived at Apple, working on new product introduction finances for such smash hit offerings as the new iPad, and from the outside Hoffmann seemingly had it made. But after three years, a twinge of dissatisfaction turned into an... View Details
- 10 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
about their experiences before and during the MBA program. Jourdan Henry (MBA 2023) Where is your hometown? Spring Valley, New York. Which HBCU did you attend? Howard University. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Media and Advertising as a View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
Verticals team in October of 2020. How have you used career services since graduating? One of the benefits of being an alum is that you have access to continued career coaching. About a year after graduating I went back to Martha and let her know that I wanted to View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
her competition—Macy’s—is now her partner. “When you are uncomfortable, you are learning and growing.” “When you are uncomfortable, you are learning and growing.” Beck has a remarkable ability to set high goals and achieve them. Frustrated that drugstores didn’t carry... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
advertising. “Government is a giant customer. They buy a lot of stuff” Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss explores this strategy pivot in a new case on Bigbelly, co-written with case researcher Christine Snively, that looks... View Details
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
up just 3 percent of the US armed services but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals
straightforward as I thought it would be. Of course, everything looks perfectly planned and linear in retrospect, but in reality, it definitely was not for me and I pivoted a couple of times. I started my first (RC) year at HBS focused on... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
journey to understand the intricate tapestry of India's burgeoning green tech landscape. A pivotal moment in our learning expedition was the site visit to Log 9 Materials, a company that epitomizes the fusion of innovation and... View Details