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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
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Erika Sanchez
presentations all the time. Eventually, I became very comfortable with it.” After two- and a-half years on the technical side of things, Erika made a switch. “I became interested in the decision-making process, in applying analytical... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
Commonwealth Fusion Systems use of magnets to build smaller and lower-cost fusion systems to Sagewell’s use of data analytics to deliver solutions for energy efficiency to Wyss’ ability to bridge the gap between academia and industry to... View Details
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B2B Sales and Distribution - Course Catalog
Objectives: This course is designed for students who would like to gain an understanding of the complexity of managing large sales and go-to-market organizations. There are three main themes to the class – people, go-to-market strategy and operations and analytics. The... 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 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
to how the firm does business. “We currently fund every good idea we have,” states Yudkoff in the case. “You would think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
your research that can positively support public and non-profit organizations? My research uses data and analytics to design or improve tools (e.g., policy interventions) that will contribute to social good. Broadly speaking, to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
system to speed delivery of targeted therapies to the marketplace. “Early on, people would ask us why the (Harvard) business school, and not the medical school, was the recipient of this gift,” says accelerator co-chair and HBS senior... View Details
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Benjamin Story
leaders in all areas." But the learning environment was as important as the focus. "I didn't want a two-year hiatus, but to be challenged by the brightest people in the field." The case method rises to the challenge.... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
influential books and articles on marketing, was to "grab business people by the lapels, shake them, and say, 'Wake up!'," Tedlow said. You couldn't ignore Levitt, and what he said, the way he said it, and the questions he posed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Ending poverty and hunger for millions of people around the world may sound like an insurmountable goal, but that hasn’t stopped Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) from taking it on—and finding success. “By 2020, we will end poverty for 4 million... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
"During the first five years our performance was strong but somewhat volatile," says Kingdon. "We were just a tiny firm and didn't have the analytical backup and the infrastructure we have now. "By 1988, he decided to abandon the risky... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
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Linda Leung
believes is the ability to “see and articulate the future potential of a thing based on limited current inputs.” For someone shifting from analytical to development roles, HBS offers unique learning opportunities. “At HBS, I can build... View Details
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Fereshteh Zeineddin
wanted to learn in a place where I would be surrounded by amazing people from different places and backgrounds. HBS was a perfect fit." "Do you know how you've changed?" At first, Fereshteh's attraction to HBS was highly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
in 1979, when Deng Xiaoping reopened China, everybody sort of threw up their hands in despair and said, “How can you compete with a billion people in China?” So we were there at the beginning of the globalization of labor-intensive... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Harad, "is to get people to understand that they are managing processes and not a series of discreet events. We've worked very hard to instill process improvement as a culture and to give people the View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
action." She contributed "once or twice" to the Harbus and "drove my Management Communication professor nuts - my style clashed with memo writing. When he found out that I actually wrote for a living, he cut me a little slack." Although business training and experience... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred until retirement) are actually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man behind the story and the successful economic policies that he and others crafted with the View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture. In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact... View Details