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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Endless Possibilities
Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) met her husband through friends when she was only 19 years old. It was 1999, and the mobile-first app Tinder—which launched in 2012 and where Iosotaluno is currently COO—was not even a distant glimmer on the dating horizon. While the app... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Center facilitated the case “Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse” about the free platform where users come together in immersive 3-D experiences. EUROPE RESEARCH CENTER (Paris) Leadership approaches... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Redefining How Businesses Operate
In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
ended up discriminating against particular groups of guests. That gives us fascinating insights about how something seemingly innocuous like web design has enormous potential to lead users in either a positive or negative direction. For... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
money. But they also learned Mexicans loved their smartphones and wanted to earn more money, despite the hassle of two-hour job commutes. Given their backgrounds in retail, Campbell and Monroy focused on seven different industry use cases, including market View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
U.S.-based companies. Whether looking for education levels, company tenure, industry affiliation, or key accomplishments of founders and CEOs, users of the database can quickly find what interests them. The database is the result of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
introduce users to different learning activities. Cook drew the characters and came up with concepts, and Jan guided content development to meet the needs of classroom teachers. Fast forward to 2003, and the Cooks are still at it. While... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Career Services Steps Up Alumni Support
the Alumni Career Services Web site (www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers) as a “career home base” because it serves as a clearinghouse of resources. It features the Alumni Job Bank; free access to eBaker, an online collection of information 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 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
database of 3.5 million companies, and Vault, a career development Web site. The service also provides seven business research sources without charge, including: databases from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
"Lots of companies were buying the same products for different prices, and we were trying to make it more transparent. The problem was that the product users did not want transparency. We approached it like consultants, but I learned that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
the time the feature was introduced, about 3.6 percent of Hinge’s users were married, engaged, or “in a relationship.” For comparison, recent research from GlobalWebIndex estimated 42 percent of Tinder View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching, Noom is backed by more than a decade of user research and product development. Its platform includes two core programs: Noom Weight for weight... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley