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November 2024
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Demond Martin and WellWithAll

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details

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21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

different resources and needs to the table. Second, over time, Lucci built a reputation as someone who could get things done. There are lots of sporting-goods stores in Greater Boston and lots of radar guns, too. Yet Lucci went to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

the company was worth more than $400 million — yielding a return on its original investment of more than 70,000 percent. It was the young venture capital industry’s first home run, and it helped make the Route 128 area outside Boston a... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Boston University; Bradley Larsen, Stanford University; and Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Farronato, whose interests include economics, innovation, electronic commerce, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912413-PDF-ENG Boston Physicians Devices Marc L. BertonecheHarvard Business School Case 212-070 The case is a very simple, short case based on the author's general experience, to introduce... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Artist Support | Baker Library

photography at MoMA in 1940 and at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1946. In the latter half of the twentieth century, increasing support for photography as an artform in Boston and across the country brought about changing perceptions... View Details

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

deserve. Martha Lagace is writer based in the Boston area.. Image credit: andresr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Book Excerpt A Platform to Rule All Others From:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Boston program and planning for its fourth class at the home office. The case should enable students to identify emerging challenges, evaluate Rock Health's funding model, debate the effectiveness of its incubation service, and assess its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2022 (Revised June 2023)
Background Note

Climate Issues on the Ground: Snapshots of Diverse American Cities

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin Scibetta and Ryan Barr

This compilation provides brief snapshots of climate action and its geographic and institutional context in 13 U.S. cities that send diverse participants to the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program to learn about cross-sector collaboration to address... View Details

Keywords: Cities; Ecosystems; Cross-sector Collaboration; Green Business; U.S. Competitiveness; Economic Sectors; City; Climate Change; Leadership; Change; Boston; Detroit; Minneapolis; Pittsburgh; San Jose; Seattle

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01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

Allston will create extraordinary possibilities. It will be exciting to see what unfolds as our Allston neighborhood becomes a vibrant innovation cluster connected to other local innovation nodes like Kendall Square, the Longwood Medical center, and the View Details

08 Nov 2024
News

Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

beyond. And we want to continue to develop strong connections to Latino students at HBS so that they grow into members of the HBSLAA.” With that in mind, the club held the banquet in Boston this year—rather than New York City—so current... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

for assigning children to schools in Boston and New York and for facilitating exchanges of kidneys. Computers enable the design of "smart markets" that combine the inputs of users in complex ways: In kidney exchange, they run... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

government than residents who received no transparency at all. Study 3 leveraged proprietary data from a mobile phone application developed by the city of Boston through which residents can submit service requests; the city’s goal was to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons learned in these countries informed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

Boston take a master class from a cello master who happened to be in Miami, all over the Internet (over Internet2, actually). As you might imagine, a master class at that level requires a communication experience that can convey a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

headquarters are uncarpeted concrete, an open invitation for workers to navigate the building on skateboards. When there’s overnight snow on the slopes of the nearby Wasatch Range, morning meetings are rolled back to accommodate the quest for fresh powder. And if you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Shutterstock/Min C. Chiu] What do you think it takes to succeed as a remote team? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Remote Work Revolution:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

"I believe 120 percent in what I'm doing," she said, well before the Boston site took shape. "If you didn't have that, you wouldn't have the energy to get up in the morning. You really enjoy the good days, because there are... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

Maderis. "People tend to be afraid of the unknown. We spend a lot of time at Genzyme meeting with groups that work to educate legislators, as well as the general public." Representatives from Genzyme and hundreds of firms at the Bio2000 conference in View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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