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Jenny Huang | MBA

that the Tech Innovation Fellowship has to offer and to learning from faculty and the incredible peers in my cohort. Tech areas of interest: Learning, Product, Data Engineering Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: A View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Map Quest

use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,... View Details

Keywords: maps

01 May 2013
News

Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986

Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s Investment... View Details

05 Aug 2015
News

Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine

broad-based success, coupled with Atlantic-branded events and rising advertising revenues, has driven six straight years of profitability. Sometimes described as a “media mogul,” Bradley never expected to find himself leading an... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

exchange to Deckinger. “Holy $#!&,” Tongish wrote, “it’s your wife!” Tongish was right. Kushner and Deckinger married in 2007, while Kushner—who now goes by Deckinger—was pursuing her MBA at HBS. Today, the couple has three young girls... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

is still enabling thousands of different firms to survive. Value Sharing And Risk Management How can a niche player influence the way that value is shared in an ecosystem? How can it protect itself against the risks of hold-up or keystone obsolescence? One of the most... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

Portrait Project

Debbie Rosenbaum

old. (My parents like to joke that I have not stopped since then.) Couple my Hispanic culture with my Jewish background, and one better understands that for me, communication is about more than just words. It is interactive and dynamic,... View Details

Portrait Project

Zhongjue (Drew) Chen

London. Over the next couple of months, I struggled to learn English, to understand British culture, and to simply fit in. As the only Chinese person in my school, I was bombarded with questions about China from my classmates and I always... View Details

16 Aug 2018
Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

Our project looks at how five nearby parks can better share resources (labor, equipment, training programs, etc.) to improve efficiency. During the last couple of weeks, we have been interviewing key staff members at the parks. It is time... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Becoming a Consulting Expert

serve those needs. The good news is, after banging my head against the wall for the first couple of weeks, I started to realize that I can be a consulting expert. It takes a lot of work, but it’s work I can do. The even better news? It’s... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

implications from suboptimal peer-selection. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance By: MacCormack, Alan,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

use digital tools to take the friction out of bringing together a diverse set of people to co-create and iterate. That became OpenIDEO. We now have a couple hundred thousand people collaborating online for the social good. Most businesses... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2002
News

The Simplest Taste

couples who have everything. Marcus, who died last January at 96, was fond of saying, "I have the simplest taste: I am always satisfied with the best," the New York Times (January 23, 2002) recalled. After HBS, Marcus took that philosophy... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2007
News

Pursuing a passion

really intriguing,” Amabile continues. “Frans found that highly creative individuals often have degrees in widely disparate disciplines, were raised in two or more cultures or countries, or have work experience in a couple of unrelated... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Career Coach

Whit Collier

Whit Collier (HBS ’04, Harvard College ’99) advises students on their paths towards alignment and fulfillment in career and life. He guides clients through transitions, challenges and inflection points, bringing a balance of thoughtful and intuitive inquiry, View Details

18 Apr 2019
News

Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion

Significant supporters of higher education at HBS and beyond, the couple recently pledged a $100 million gift to the University of Toronto to help create an Innovation Centre focused on artificial intelligence and biomedicine. In 1995,... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong

Ariel Zwang (MBA 1990) is CEO of Safe Horizon, a New York–based organization that provides services to victims of violent crime and abuse. “I went to work at BCG right after I graduated. After a couple years, I realized that I did not... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Chances Are

researchers found, that a couple who used condoms as a contraceptive would become pregnant. Shapiro's friend called later that day to report that her daughter had confronted her boyfriend with that stat and another she saw that day: 1 in... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; probability

Leading with the Long View

had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon... View Details

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