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- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
while at HBS. First, he considered public markets and venture capital, but ultimately was drawn to working with a startup. To break into that ecosystem, Westphal worked on some small projects for startups during his first year at HBS. He... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
filed to take the company public in 2006 but withdrew a few months later when market conditions were deemed unfavorable. A new attempt to go public in 2011 resulted in the May 2012 sale of the company to China's Dalian Wanda Group. Wanda acquired AMC for $2.6 billion,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects requiring creative effort) to fill out a daily electronic diary form that required numerical answers to questions about their work that day, as well as their emotions,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
women colleagues from other universities — all noted authorities on entrepreneurial growth — began a collaborative research project in 1998 to tease out the underlying reasons for the disparity in enterprise size and growth rate. Clearing... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
there's still not a lot in the growth stage. What can we do to fix that? Dodi: Well, that's the million dollar question or billion dollar question. Because also across the board, the landscape has changed from even 10 years ago. We don’t... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
from the Class of 1977 interviewed for this article, Fox came to the restaurant industry by an indirect path, but now finds himself completely immersed in its unique complexities and rewards. The National Restaurant Association projects... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
perhaps helping to feed the world—lies in finding ways to transform subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs. The global population is hurtling toward 9 billion by 2050, according to the World Bank, and feeding all those people will require... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
present to their boards of directors, which were made up of two-to-four alumni. The team in Spangler 205 included Pieterjan Goedertier, Ben Samuels, Rachel Blank, Ambuj Kashyap, Jenn Volk, and Amy Shah as the student management team and Brit Dewey (MBA 1996), managing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
full glory of their wealthier pasts. The point is that they are becoming places where people want to live, shop, run businesses, and go to school." At HBS, a number of faculty are engaged in research and teaching projects that treat these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
billion in assets under management. How did you first become interested in investing? My father had spent time in the Argentine and followed the price of Indian tea shares. As a young boy, it was romantic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and corporate sponsors; naming rights; 29,500 season tickets (including 15,000 “charter seats”); and the loans it would take to cover the price tag for a $357 million ballpark. “Larry is the nicest person in the world, but he is also a... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
into an $8 billion behemoth 10 years later, and most recently leading a massive turnaround at Hewlett-Packard—Whitman has left her beloved Bay Area for a stand-up desk in Hollywood’s media district. There she finds her phone and hotfoots... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
result of my arrogance from 30,000 feet. I failed to get the other groups invested in the program. I completely fiddle-dee-deed the long-lead timetable. I delegated the entire project to a handsome but clueless assistant product manager.... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
would not be on the modern woman's birthday, Christmas, or wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of Downton Abbey!" The book project became a big part of Wilson's life. "For several... 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 of light for the nearly 1.2... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
devoted to the interconnections between Jewish and Arab citizens," remarks Slifka, who then identified 282 Israeli groups that were dedicated to strengthening relations between Jews and Arabs. Over the years, The Abraham Fund has supported hundreds of grassroots View Details