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01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

Critics harped that an "elephant" like IBM couldn't dance the quick steps of the new technology. A search was under way for a new CEO, but few—including Lou Gerstner himself—were eager to take on the very public, very risky assignment of... View Details

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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

it this way, privacy has been losing ground rapidly with the ascendancy of big data and the Internet of things. The retreat of privacy has been aided by personal use of networking apps like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed his training as a cardiologist,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Content & Community for Students The Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) spoke with Molly Doctors and Sage Ruth, the 2013-14 co-presidents of the Social Enterprise Club , to hear about the club and their thoughts on the broader network for... View Details

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In the News - Entrepreneurship

How Bill Wilson Changed the World Re: Robert Simons 20 Jun 2025 Bloomberg Silicon Valley’s ‘Tiny Team’ Era Is Here Re: Jeff Bussgang 16 Jun 2025 HBS Working Knowledge Does Your Startup Set Employees Up to Fail? Re: Julia Austin 10 Jun 2025 New Books View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

Intelligence (AI) throughout the cases and coursework. Educational Objectives The course takes the perspective of founders struggling to achieve product market fit in their early-stage startups. Our cases focus on founder decisions during this View Details

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

like push email with its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave them a first-mover advantage, but as technology improved and data capabilities on wireless voice networks evolved rapidly and took off, the advantage turned to a burden with... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494 Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

partner, Honda) began in August 2014, when Misra started his year as a Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, a program launched in 2013 at HBS. Among the numerous scientists Misra met with in his search for marketable life... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 May 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

understand the critical elements that lead to success at each stage in the evolution of an early-stage tech venture. Their mentorship allowed me to feel strongly equipped to jump into challenging opportunities with tech companies at any stage of growth. 3. Develop a... View Details

Career Coach

Phil Wong

Phil (Caltech ‘05, HBS ‘10) is currently the CFO and co-founder of Sevi Health, a healthcare startup on a mission to simplify primary care in the US. His role at Sevi focuses on acquiring clinics, integrating housing and healthcare for seniors living in senior... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship

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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

about your search , showcase your experience (including any nonprofit or advisory board roles), and join gatherings of current directors when you can. Conferences and talks on what it means to be an excellent board member can be useful as... View Details

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

professor at HBS) and Assistant Professor Feng Zhu, analyzed several thousand articles on the king of crowdsourced knowledge, Wikipedia, searching for phrases that would indicate political bias. What they found is that many articles... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

finance. With my curiosity sparked, I found my first internship at a search fund (largely thanks to my Yorkshire Terrier’s networking skills, but that’s another story ) Over subsequent summer internships,... View Details

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

management of tensions caused by the simultaneous need for such things as short-term and long-term performance, the exploitation of existing ideas and the search for new ones, and the staffing and motivation of leadership teams with... View Details