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- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) became an easy mark after word got out about his “generosity experiment.” For 30 days he would say yes to everyone who asked him for money—from people on the street to nonprofits. There would be no question of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Hayling Price
the city. The other was an impoverished community of poor people who had hoped to step up from even more dire circumstances in Harlem or the Bronx. "I saw the birth lottery up close and personal," he says. "We all lived... View Details
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Whitney Wilson
business problems they were solving.” After the Chamber, she accepted a consulting position with Deloitte in Washington DC where she “worked in the strategy and analytics practice for public sector clients. I focused my work around... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
those fears with some of these kind of analytical approaches but I find, generally speaking, people want to sensationalize things and they want the scary stuff to emerge. So, even if you counter it, we don't... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people... View Details
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Drew Richard
structure a team when starting a company. In the summer, I’ll work with a start-up on the West Coast, AutoGrid, that does analytics in the energy sector. They’ve been around for a few years and are well-funded – it’s not a couple of guys... View Details
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Michelle Giguere
voice of the customer in any meeting — a nice blend of analytical skills and marketing." Challenging herself to lead After several years at Gap, Michelle realized "If I wanted to be a leader, I needed a more well-rounded... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
have for any other investor. We do what we do because we think it’s awesome, we believe in it, and because our customers like it. It's a powerful solution that really makes people happy. Did you have a viewing party? We were going to, but... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
to unscramble “Scrambled State Capitals,” a presumably brute-force analytical exercise that should play to Watson’s strengths. Indeed, in a similar category, “The Northernmost Capital City,” Watson ran the table, answering all five... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Student-Profile
Patrick Ferguson
sports analytics consulting group, where he helped professional sports teams identify undervalued players. His next position—as an accounting research assistant at his alma mater—brought these threads together. The senior faculty members... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
also an early backer of Noom and Impossible Foods, among others. Upon learning that just two percent of funding goes to female founders, William’s made a strategic commitment to diversity and inclusion; today, 78 percent of founders backed by Serena Ventures are women... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
research has focused on understanding when and why people rely on (or ignore) advice and how this impacts judgment accuracy; little is known about the interpersonal consequences of the advice-seeking process. In this paper, we investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
we had a shared passion for technology and building great user-focused products: four out of the six team members had cofounded their own company, three had worked in product development, and four were engineers. Everyone on the team was very View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
return. Statistically speaking, documentaries don’t make money. Learning how to lead a team of very talented and creative people has also been challenging for me, as I come from a very data-driven, structured, and View Details
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Rob Casper
experience; a creative way to build things by helping others become better and more efficient.” Making the transition from Marines to MBA is not always easy. “I’d never taken an accounting class before,” Rob says. “But the summer View Details
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Fumi Tamaki
clear picture of the inner workings of companies and markets,” Fumi says. “It was a fascinating experience, especially as companies are drawing in larger volumes of data – the ability to analyze it is critically important.” But even though Fumi enjoyed the View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
difference every day, and I knew I had the skills to do it," says Tepper Singer, who is married to section-mate Dan Singer. "Not that many people have come to the non-profit field with business training." Her business skills helped on a... View Details
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Jeremy Burnham
already had the quantitative side and was looking for the opposite,” says Jeremy. “I was impressed that HBS focused less on analytics and more on interpersonal and communications skills – that it was less about crunching numbers and more... View Details