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20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

However, the business he co-founded had been scaling beyond Foxborough years before he changed uniforms. The TB12 team launched the TB12 Method book in 2017 and it quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. Two years later, the new TB12 center in View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Urbana-Champaign Ann is a General Partner at The Engine, an MIT-launched venture capital firm that invests in early-stage “Tough Tech” companies in the Boston area. On behalf of The Engine, she serves on the boards of Vaxess Technologies,... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

make your choice. There is no perfect answer." Hunt's blunt advice, which was reported in the Boston Globe, may well resonate with the significant number of HBS alumnae who have struggled with the difficulties posed by following a... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments, co-written with Julie Holland Mortimer of Boston College and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was updated earlier this year. Their findings about how to motivate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

researchers at Harvard, the Boston Fed, and other local universities where we get together twice a year to talk about consumer finance research. This fall, we're launching a national consumer finance working group at the National Bureau... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

Research Centers. For instance, (HBS professor) Tarun Khanna is working with the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong and the Global Research Group in Boston on a case about a large financial services group. For the interviews at the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

questions still to be answered,” Toffel says. “Right now, it’s still early days as CEOs think through the potential opportunities and risks.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: FangXiaNuo]... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research Initiatives & Projects MBA Resources Baker Library... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

manufacturing to knowledge-based economic growth. He notes that Kendall Square, the Seaport District, and the South End of Boston were transformed when businesses took hold after decades of disinvestment. “In the same way,” he stresses,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office as an HBS Leadership Fellow. “We... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

to recent political and economic shifts or part of a deeper social and cultural history? What can be done to address this crisis in our criminal justice system? The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB), in partnership with the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2017
News

The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

to start the company together and I went back to Boston to sell my furniture; I started working with Josh the following Monday. What makes Bubble unique? Bubble is different from other website builders, because it has much more... View Details

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

Philippines, and West Africa, and the One Fund in Boston, following the Boston Marathon bombing—as well as funding organizations that help the poor in Kolkata. Most notably, since 2006 the Kundu Foundation has provided the lion’s share of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Glaeser, Kominers, and Harvard doctoral candidate Andrew Hillis further honed the algorithm to develop a tool for the City of Boston. After officials were asked to identify health violations of the most concern, the researchers and Boston... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

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Minal Mehta

California, Mayuri was teaching a wildly popular Bollywood fitness class at UC Berkeley, packing the school gym with 150 students every class. I had a gut feeling that we were the right team sitting on a potentially incredible opportunity. "In June 2013, the three... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

mentors, investors in the Boston area (including my current Entrepreneurial Finance professor, Jim Matheson!), and fellow entrepreneurs passionate about addressing climate challenges. I’m also really thankful to my sectionmate Shardule... View Details

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

military until 1959. 30 Ante, 80. Contact Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related... View Details

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021... View Details

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06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

but rather HD Moore, Metasploit’s founder, chief contributor, and in 2009 one of the most well-known hackers on the planet. The groundwork that had been laid to convince Moore to come to Boston for the discussions would all be for naught... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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