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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

1:58 2024 Alumni New Venture Competition Winner: Elisa Transforming child nutrition in Latin America through fresh and additive-free meals. Business Track, 2024 Crop Diagnostix Brandon Chi (MBA 2024) Joseph Swift, Amitesh Pratap Business... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

I learned that I thrive in settings that surround me with mission-driven people, and I cannot wait to see how that informs my full-time search this coming year. While I’m currently leaning back towards... View Details

05 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS

two is more so about the network. Having grown up first gen and low income, I didn't really have a network, you could say. I mean, I know some people, but not really a network, not really folks that I could lean on for mentorship,... View Details

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein SEP 2016 In an address at the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference, Greenwood, Hanson and Stein suggest that, going forward, the Fed should use its balance... View Details

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Memoir of Leaning in Too Far and the Journey Back . Sanibel, FL: Temple Press, 2016. Nevins, Allan. Herbert H. Lehman and His Era. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963. Silverman, Joseph. “Spoken at the... View Details

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Archaeology, Princeton University In this mosaic, Tethys is portrayed with a winged brow and a rudder leaning against her shoulder. While she sometimes is shown next to her husband, the Titan Oceanus, here... View Details

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

I was way off about timing. HBS paid off before I left campus. Let me share three reasons: First, I learned to ask what else? That question has helped me create richer solutions. I remember leaning forward View Details

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

which ones would fall flat. But, in rating recommendations they were told came from a computer versus a human, participants gave human recommenders higher scores, showing that people would rather receive suggestions from a person, even if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

Portrait Project

Joe Coleman

to believe in myself. Life will throw me all sorts of challenges. But I will not be paralyzed by fear, because I will lean on those I trust for support. In return, I commit... View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

from “Art Is ” series, 1983/2009 Art Is (Star East Monuments) Art Is (Women in Crowd Framed) Art Is (Young Woman Leaning on Barrier) Art Is (Dancer in Grass Skirt) Carrie Mae... View Details

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Ken Zeng

Coming to HBS is like... A dream of adventure. I grew up in a humble family in China and was the first one in my family to attend college. “I never even dared to dream that... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Toyota? With all the books and articles on Toyota, lean manufacturing, just-in-time, kanban systems, quality systems, etc. that came out in the 1980s and 90s, hasn't the topic been exhausted? Steven Spear:... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

to students at each school. Both schools provide students with multiple opportunities to learn about law and business, but the focus on what these opportunities showcase is different. In fact, the minimal overlap between the two serves as... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

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

leaning on each other for help. Kenneth brings the financial background, Kevin brings skills in marketing, and they have paired their expertise together for this organization. “We’ve known each other for 28... View Details

26 Jun 2023
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ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new business models and growth opportunities. The IRA is a... View Details

26 Jan 2024
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Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details

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