Team Launch - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock

partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was able to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over to rugby, a sport he played with bone-breaking gusto throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen's life. One such person is... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

right people to help your venture fly? If you get your team right, the idea will come. And the money will follow." Bhide, who for the past eight years has been studying five hundred mid-level entrepreneurial businesses around the country,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward

Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

cofounded in 1998. He also advised a number of student teams competing in the HBS Business Plan Contest, an event he judged in previous years. “It made me feel good that three of the four finalists that year, including the winning team,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back

Foundation of Canada, notes, “They rarely have the cash or the time.” Four years ago, Goldstein helped launch the Upside Foundation to provide a platform for early-stage and high-growth companies to pledge a percentage of profits from... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

impact in business and society. This effort is amplified by HBS’s Racial Equity Plan, which calls for the School to attract additional Black talent to all parts of the community and that has, in turn, inspired new efforts by the MBA Admissions and Financial Aid View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

running the School. It’s a team sport. Harvard Business School isn’t a hierarchical place where the Dean gets to tell people what to do. In fact, a dean who tried that would get into a lot of trouble very quickly. Instead, it’s a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in empowering the fight for health... View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of the business. In 1992 she met... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France Use due diligence in assessing the "people" environment in which you will work: the culture of the company, the team you will join, and the seniors you... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

international, to other developing countries and to Europe, where there is a growing housing problem. Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) AbilityTrip — SEF 2010 honoree Founded in 2008 by husband-and-wife team Darren and Faith Brehm, AbilityTrip is a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

the nonprofit raised more than $650,000. Mariano Parro MPP/MBA 2020 Mariano Parro helped launch ProTalento, which seeks to bridge the skills gap among young people in Latin America. “The pandemic is severely affecting economic... View Details

31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

launched the Robin Hood Army while working for a company called Zomato, India’s largest food-delivery app. His job was to set up Zomato in international markets, live in the countries for six to nine months at a time, and establish local... View Details

29 Jan 2019
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Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

Ademosu, (GMP 14, 2013), Managing Director and CEO of Credit Direct Limited. Ademosu led the team that launched Credit Direct Limited, the first and largest non-bank structured consumer lending business in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

won’t make our students country experts, but we can make them better prepared to operate in a globalized world. Module Three is designed to integrate what students have learned throughout the first year. We’re going to do that in the context of a start-up where View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And... View Details

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

HBS Alumni Angels team hopes to replicate. “Of course we want to present another conference,” says Kovacs. “This one was really amazing. Can lightning strike twice?” The organizers worked steadily with HBS, Stanford and the conference... View Details