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Maria Brewer
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? During my time in operations, the more I was able to work with multiple areas of the business and see how they interact, the more excited I was by my work. Observing how one decision in a... View Details
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Arjun Goyal
“marries a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical... View Details
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Scott Wu
is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
role in several of them," says Laguë. "I learned that you spend 90 percent of your time on the companies that don't make it. Investing in fewer companies is more interesting than investing in many, and you have better outcomes. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
ambition. “Hubris and the ubiquity of devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many.” Time management principles at work are well understood, just terribly hard to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
judgment is worthless; good judgment without experience is still good judgment!" On the other hand, Robert Moses asserted that "a person without experience is very unlikely to have good judgment; experience is the wheel that grinds and hones." And... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Carole Carlson
consulting skills and social entrepreneurship in their MBA program, and she also moderates online executive education programs for HBS Publishing.Carole is a 1998 graduate of Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She serves on several boards and in... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
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Pamela Harder
(e.g., Management Consulting, Finance, Startups / Entrepreneurship, General Management, Healthcare, Venture Capital, Social Enterprise) on the entire career continuum. Pam is originally from Reston, Virginia. She and her husband, Josh Harder (US Congressman, D-CA10)... View Details
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Rich Schneider
activities such as board assignments or retirement. Work Experience: Arthur D. Little (consultant), Braxton Associates (founder and partner), Deloitte Consulting (senior partner), Sage Partners (partner), Johnson School/Cornell (part time... View Details
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Marc Ricks
to be the type of consultant that delivers insight, honesty, and value to clients. Over time it means using my training to help improve the lives of people who cannot afford my billing rate, but whose needs... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
open-source Apache HTTP. The popular web-server software was used by more than 150,000 medium and large US organizations between the years 2000 and 2018, allowing the authors to examine a large dataset over... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Embrace the Corona-Blur
2018) launched the group coaching company Medley from her dining room table last July. In that time she also got married, lost a family member, and adopted a puppy—major life events that were recognized around the same dining room... View Details
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ProQuest TDM Studio | Baker Library
this time Additional Information ProQuest sources available for use with TDM Studio Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu if you encounter setup issues. For technical support contact TDMStudio@Clarivate.com... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
Alden Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times (April 12, 2011). More than 50 years ago, Alden was working on an automated... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
regulations, it's fewer. Is It Time to Break Up Amazon, Facebook, or Google?Craig Parietti & PartnersCraig comments: The concept of US antitrust is outdated. We are now a global economy. So, if we break... View Details
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Business and Society
It taught me about key entrepreneurs and inventions that shaped civilization. And through this class I gained a better understanding of key points in time that have shaped history. Those learnings, in their own right, are incredibly... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
shoes, or C) make her shoes tighter due to the inserts," Smith explains. "She came up with the problem for us." Wiegele, who has a background in air and water filtration thanks to his engineering work at SpaceX, used his... View Details
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Jennifer Keedy Banks
I have touched, ways I've demonstrated my love for my family, and how I have used my skills to aid my church and my community Investing in my most valuable assets, my precious children, by taking the time to... View Details