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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, cites studies showing that even mild dehydration can compromise performance by as much as 29 percent. Nix has garnered interest from both endurance athletes—which include about 30 million dedicated runners in the United States alone—and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
year, it welcomed a user with loads of data—the city itself. Partner communities can alert Waze users to planned traffic incidents (concerts, sporting events) and road closures, reducing congestion; users get a better drive. The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Her interests leaned more in the direction of strategy—and sports. Rapaport found plenty of outlets in both areas at HBS, where she was president of the Business of Sports Club. She also volunteered for Crossover into Business, an HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
imperfectionism, and show and tell. Imperfectionists are curious, they look at problems from several perspectives, and gather new data and approaches, including from outside their current industry. They deliberately step into risk,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
the boards of GE, Chubb Corporation, Wal-Mart, and Phase Forward. Another of his abiding passions is sports. His wife, Clemmie, refers to him as a “Professional Sports Attendee” because he has season tickets to Patriots, Red Sox, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen dramatically in recent years. São... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
She asked Bulletin readers for their thoughts. The Decision: “We absolutely went digital,” Cass says. Doing so required adding mechanical and software engineering specialties to the team, as well as a data scientist. They also pivoted... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Kubacki (MBA 2000) (Wiley) The authors explain how competitive selling is as much a matter of politics, customer value, and strategy as it is a management science. Based on data from a comprehensive sales survey and reviews of over 50,000... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
is no stranger to entrepreneurship. In 1991, he created a sports data service that he sold three years later to Data Broadcasting Corp. (DBC), a firm that hired him to set up... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
requires a similar mess of coaxial cables and equipment racks to function. Levy likens the setup to ENIAC, the first programmable digital computer, a room-sized behemoth that sported 18,000 vacuum tubes and resembled the unholy offspring... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
also decided early on to be a catalyst and facilitator of change rather than actually providing programs. Working in partnership with city, county, state, and federal government officials and a multitude of leaders from the civic sector, Cleveland Tomorrow has been... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword puzzles for fun, Oishi makes a View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance