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September 2018
Case

Verisk: Trailblazing in the Big Data Jungle

By: Andrew Wasynczuk, Francesca Gino and Karim Sameh

This case revolves around Verisk Analytics' initiatives to drive innovation throughout the firm's many business verticals. Verisk, originally named ISO, started life as an insurance rating agency in the early 1970s, acting as an intermediary between insurance companies... View Details

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01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

Business Roundtable, Purpose of a Corporation: One Year Later , Businessroundtable.org, accessed September 28, 2020. Peter S. Goodman, Stakeholder Capitalism Falters in Study , The New York Times, September... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

often referred to in the form of a career pursuit, but for me it is, and has been a way of life. I have lived to see Uganda’s economy transform over the years, with every trip home a constant reminder of how quickly things are changing. I frequently have to reorient... View Details

19 Oct 2021
News

In the Contest for Content

well as streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music. A recent New York Times article, “A $1 Billion Competitor for Music Rights Says ‘Content Is Queen,’” explains that HarbourView is backed by up to $1... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2014
News

Technology Making HBS More Accessible

believe more in today’s vision for HBS.” The Quazzos, who met while working in New York prior to attending HBS, have contributed to the School’s entry into online learning with gifts supporting HBX. “HBX... View Details

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Hunter Goble

experience at Eli Lilly, and I liked that I could understand what they were doing! I know there will be a market for what they’re trying to do.” Hunter will intern at Huron, a life sciences strategy practice based in New View Details

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Nathalie du Preez

career? I grew up in South Africa, was educated in the U.S., and have also lived and worked in the U.K., France and India. After HBS I was looking for a career that could provide similar international opportunities. In September 2010, I started working at... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

earlier, a surprisingly elegant parking structure. It took several years and complicated financing, but on June 5, 2013, Cummings watched as hundreds of Detroiters—black and white, rich and poor—gathered in front of the new grocery store.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

03 Dec 2024
News

Magic Numbers

Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

31 May 2013
News

Seeing the Light

1988, he founded his own New York City shop, the Idea Group, where he was CEO and creative director. "I loved the ad biz because it was full of bright, passionate people creating ideas that sell," says... View Details

Keywords: painting; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 1999
News

HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

"I had always wanted to do something in the community, and CP lets me leverage what I know how to do to really help an organization." After Jay Misra (MBA '82) and Kathy Salmanowitz (MBA '78) moved from San Francisco to New York, they... View Details

06 Aug 2020
News

Defining Flex Work

companies that offer it, but almost immediately Auerbach recognized two fundamental problems. First, no one knew how to talk about flexibility. Second, no one had the data to understand the business benefits of it. The New View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

executives. Professor Opie obtained her Ph.D. in Management (with a concentration in organizational behavior) in May 2010 from New York University’s Stern School of Business. In 1999, she obtained her MBA... View Details

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

Mid-Atlantic/Southeastern U.S. HBS Club of New York HBS Club of Washington, D.C. Sahil Patel, MBA '05 PhytoTEK biologic infection solutions Northwestern U.S. HBS Association of Northern California HBS Tech... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting

year. WESTREK & NYTREK: These spring treks connect HBS students with recruiting opportunities at startups and major tech companies in the Bay Area and New York City. Students gain valuable exposure to a wide... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Hollywood Story

has a lot in common with film producing and screenwriting. “There is definitely something to be said for having the kind of training I had at Goldman,” says Epstein, who finished production in May on The Deal, a “global oil thriller” she wrote and coproduced. Set in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

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Maxeme Tuchman

a nonprofit, public-affairs leadership program, led to a job serving the first deputy mayor, Patti Harris, in the New York City Mayor's Office, affectionately known as "The Bull pen." Among the... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

and travels around the world, although writing was still on his mind, Barron enrolled at HBS intending to build a business of his own. After graduation, he took a job with Prospect Group, Inc., a New York... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Dec 2015
News

Estonia, Incorporated

Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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