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Frist Faculty Commons | About
replacing the Faculty Club formerly located in Kresge Hall. The space was named in honor of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family, who have been generous supporters of financial aid at HBS. About the Name After serving as a View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
medical field is another domain with a lot to gain from being able to predict patient flow better. “At the end of the day it’s all about decision-making,” Grushka-Cockayne says. “Why we care about a better prediction is to make better and more informed decisions.”... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
much, too different, too unique. I didn’t want to stand out anymore so I began to shrink myself. However, I realized that the more I take up space, the more I create space for others to step into their own light. There’s beauty outside... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
movies. Another success is how airlines have trained us all to take part in cleaning the plane before landing. During the final approach, a flight attendant asks over the P.A. that we pass our trash and unused items to a crew member in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
a football game between our two schools, Howard University and Morehouse College. What began as a friendship turned into a love that grew over several years of long-distance dating, six cities, two separate MBA application cycles, and way too many View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Recent high-profile financial meltdowns at Bitcoin, Celsius, and Terraform Labs, which together wiped out hundreds of billions in market value, helped trigger a flight from the cryptocurrency market, driving its value from $2.9 trillion... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
only player, but it should try to become the first player that comes to mind when customers, analysts, or the media think about the new market category. McDonald points to recent examples such as SpaceX in commercial space View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
diverse country. On the funding side, you’re building both an investment thesis and an impact model. What does each of those look like and what happens in the space between? Yeah, if we were solely impact focused, we would not necessarily... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
and wealth creation. Though prohibited by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining had lasting implications—as did related real estate practices such as blockbusting, which encouraged white flight by playing on fears of racial integration,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard. In a new multimedia case, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” by HBS assistant professors Michael... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
Norman Knight (GMP 9, 2010) is Executive Flight Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this interview, he talks about the unique blend of scientific and technical skills and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
among many other physical factors. “It’s an awesome job,” says Virts, a native of Maryland whose parents both worked at Goddard Space Flight Center. “Mondays are still Mondays, but there’s nothing else I’d... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Frank Mycroft
and the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Early on at Princeton," Frank says, "I got really interested in astrobiology, the study of life on other worlds. If it existed, where would it be and how... View Details
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Fanele Mashwama
distributive justice. “The policy space is a space where we can, and should, put our ethical convictions into practice,” he says. After graduation, Fanele spent two years with McKinsey & Company before... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
one with a handful of technical people to a company that now has over 100 members in three locations worldwide. We’re working to revolutionize the weather-technology space by putting together a perspective that embraces data, models and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
trajectories of satellites and worked on the development of a carrying system for a Venus rover as part of NASA’s Adept mission. “Being able to talk to these scientists and engineers at NASA about different atmospheres and different planets really impressed upon me how... View Details
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Linda Leung
Lucas’ science-fiction epics. “In real life, ion propulsion would never work for fighters,” Linda explains. “It just doesn’t create enough acceleration. But it might be perfect for deep space travel in which efficiency is more important... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
Andreas Haas How Does an Organization Like Boeing Coordinate Work Under Intense Competitive Pressure? Our case study on Boeing this month unfolded in real time, leading up to a second critical glitch on one of their products, this time its View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting for delayed View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg