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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
benchmarking to an art museum, a local YMCA, and a philanthropic organization. Alumni volunteer for CAP projects out of their desire to go beyond a simple donation to a good cause. “They want to be involved in the community,” says Jacobsohn. “It’s a great way to meet... View Details
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Fatou Bintou Sagnang
and how the world hangs together, then bringing it down to the corporate and personal levels." She references a case study about a young HBS graduate who assumes an executive position, bringing analytical skills more mature than his... 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
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Prita Kumar
turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with... View Details
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Abhay Saboo
Attending business school has long been one of Abhay Saboo's ambitions. With his interest in technology, however, he wanted to use his undergraduate education to build a credible foundation for the future. "I did engineering to develop an 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
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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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
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Shantanu Rege
"Investors from China, the U.S., Japan, India, and other countries are competing for the same pool of capital. I want to look at the macroeconomic trends to see how you should allocate capital in a globalized world. An HBS MBA pulls together the quantitative View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
work began with one question: How to bring more treatments to the people who need them? After Myra Kraft died in 2011 of ovarian cancer, the Kraft Family Foundation sought to find an answer to this question. They spoke with a number of... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
her time working closely with the Wildlife Conservation Society. After graduating from the HBS/HKS joint degree program Paulina will be moving to Washington, DC to work for the World Wildlife Fund. Why did you decide to come to HBS? I chose to go to business school to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Analytics course for those students without a background in business and economics; more than half of the MBA Class of 2018 completed the program, including a significant number who took it voluntarily. HBX Certificate Programs include... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
ecosystem has grown at an impressive rate," Deighton says. When indirect employment is calculated into the number of jobs that depend directly on the existence of the Internet, the study estimates that 5.1 million people owe their... View Details
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Paul Lenehan
they could break down and analyze problems – especially the MBAs from HBS. Their case background was a foundation for much of the analytical work." Paul came to HBS on the strength of its reputation and "the quality of its... View Details
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Laura Arjona
electrical engineering from the University of Florida. Laura followed suit, obtaining a scholarship to Rice University, where she studied mechanical engineering. "I was always analytical and good at math," she says.... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
In the second-year elective The Moral Leader, students read and discuss a wide selection of literary sources, confronting complex moral challenges and developing the analytical skills and judgment that will be required of them as business... View Details
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Fangfang Wang
Fangfang introduced data-driven analytics and consultative selling techniques to the company. Recognizing chocolate’s value as a high-margin product, she led initiatives to drive demand, including partnerships with other candy... View Details
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Andrew Goldin
participated in the summer Analytics program. "It was extremely helpful in bringing me up to speed with finance and accounting," says Andrew. "The program was a great opportunity to become familiar with the HBS campus and... 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