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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
get to talk with them and get acquainted. We learned so much about what’s current in consumer and tech, and enjoyed hearing about their experiences prior to HBS and their summer jobs.” Patty McKenna (MBA 1988) “It was such a great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company was not yet a year old. It had launched just as key provisions from the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act took effect, opening opportunities for companies to raise a total of just over $1 million from non-accredited investors, with caps View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
through academies like West Point, while there are no parallel institutions to nurture outstanding teachers? Klemmer founded the Center for Better Schools to seek the answer. "Having had the Harvard Business School experience and knowing... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
companies they will be visiting, and what makes them interesting case studies: Red Ants Pants (White Sulphur Springs, Montana). USA-made work clothes designed to fit women, including 70 sizes of pants. Founded in 2006 by Montana... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
and strict quarantine measures, drawing on the city-state’s previous experience with pandemics, including SARS, H1N1, MERS, and Zika. Then in March 2020, Singapore deployed the world’s first Bluetooth-based contact-tracing system,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
From designing a new yearlong required course on Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development to building “hive” class rooms that support the associated teamwork and projects, the first year of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
everything from the quality of patient care to a hospital’s bottom line. “Health care executives pay close attention to how nursing time is being utilized. They strive for efficiency in fear of finding themselves in troublesome financial situations reminiscent of the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
times, have shared so many insights with me. Those are a few of the things that I would say have been moments of great joy. So first, I just want to say an enormous thank you to everyone involved in the design of the hybrid classroom. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
would give people confidence in their ability to experiment in the same way that the front end of design thinking gives people confidence in their ability to be creative. Experimentation sounds like it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
GoodMark from General Mills is just part of his story. His experiences in the corporate world and as a husband, father, philanthropist, and community leader are examples of how to weather storms and thrive, not just in a career but in... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent spirit. Luckily, Wong had View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
centered on quality, FAO Schwartz now focuses on higher-end toys. The company is also designing its own products with its own brand and has acquired a children’s clothing company. The chain is now down from forty stores to just three, in... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a decade; upgrades to both the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
which the rest of the world is very well designed to equip, is very different than engaging somebody who's trying to regain alignment because they're worried their skills won't be relevant in 10 years given how AI is taking over the world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
in management control systems through research focused on the various issues related to the design and effects of performance measurement, evaluation and incentive systems, and, more recently, corporate control and governance systems. “In... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
whole experience was an experiment, says Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration. In designing the Business of AI SIP, Lakhani had as his thought partner HBS executive... View Details
Keywords: April White