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- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
immense value for businesses that need to assess an individual’s financial information, such as lenders. Ultimately, Plaid’s mission is to empower innovators by democratizing access to the financial system. I had always been interested... View Details
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Meet the HBS African American Student Union Leadership - Recruiting
vibrant and inclusive community for all Black students at HBS, embracing diverse backgrounds, intersectionalities, family structures, and social preferences. AASU’s mission is to ensure that every Black student has the support and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a high-profile pursuit. “We began thinking... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- Web
Peter Tufano | Working Knowledge
advance purchase commitments. Tufano sits on climate-related advisory groups in investment management, data services, insurance, and law. Tufano’s work on climate alliances is informed by his personal experiences in creating and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged bakery worker named Suchismita on... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Intel, Netscape, Oracle, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard, among other technology firms. Some 35 high tech, venture capital, and investment management companies opened their doors to the eighty students on the West Club's trip and sent... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Supplement
Kirk Arnold
By: Nitin Nohria and Alan Price
Supplements NerveWire, Inc. View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Value; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Investment Return; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry; Newton
Nohria, Nitin, and Alan Price. "Kirk Arnold." Harvard Business School Supplement 402-020, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
camouflage, and, though I never felt ashamed of my story—in fact, I would never change it because it has taught the most valuable lessons of life—I had shared it only with a few intimate colleagues and friends.” Read More My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
describes the personal nature of the work and the effort to bring more of a sustainability lens to investments in the AUC's endowment. "Education changed the course of my life—it's something my mother fought dearly for, and my View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
today. When they first emerged, business schools were highly controversial institutions. The profit-maximizing imperatives of business were seen to be at odds with the more disinterested mission of universities. Business education came to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
and Phillips-Sadler noted that for many, traveling to HBS was a major investment that was often difficult to justify with strained startup budgets and tight timelines. “Our mission is to democratize access... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
"The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned, and winning behaviors fostered, with principle-centered... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, transparency and liquidity. PhytoTEK supplies a unique biologic solution... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
success in a broad array of projects, such as managing 10 brands and 26 shops across different categories, he also felt the need to reinvent his core confectionery business since not all stores of all his brands were thriving as he had wished. Equally central to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
professional background in health tech. He mentioned that the venture capital firm, General Catalyst, he worked for before school had just invested in a trans telehealth company. My jaw must have dropped on the sidewalk. I had thought it... View Details