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- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
they’re not hiding. They’re at major institutions around the country—some of them at historically black colleges but others at state universities. DARDEN: Roy and I went on our first recruitment trip to mainly white schools—Stanford, UC Berkeley, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
number of organizations,” explains Tierney. “More foundations and businesspeople are entering the sector, and we’re seeing increased emphasis on a nonprofit organization’s ability to deliver excellent and sustained results.” Since its inception in Boston, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
for DocuSign in the San Francisco area. “We’re normally talking about leadership, about innovation, about strategy.” When she saw the course description for the Spiritual Lives of Leaders SIP, she thought,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309019 Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur... (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 409-025 Philip McCrea is dealing with the aftermath of the move of his company and family from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
table in their San Francisco apartment. It was March of 2009. A single sheet of paper sat on the table in front of them. The three founders were on the verge of finishing the three month program at... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tank. Dressed in a bright pink Coffee Meets Bagel T-shirt under a black business jacket, Kang pitched the San Francisco startup to five investors including Mark Cuban. The sisters were looking for $500,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Urban Us
By: Mitchell Weiss and Phoebe Peronto
Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focused venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Urbantech; Seed Investing; Urban Us; Shaun Abrahamson; Stonly Baptiste; Remix; One Concern; Starcity; SeamlessDocs; Venture Capital; Public Sector; City; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Miami; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
Weiss, Mitchell, and Phoebe Peronto. "Urban Us." Harvard Business School Case 818-115, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
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patient and payer billing accuracy. He was also an early team member at TaskRabbit, where he ran marketing and business development, conceptualizing and launching the company’s B2B offering. Victor lives in San View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business Administration. Morrell: Koehn... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads).... View Details
- January 2024
- Case
Mariam Braimah: Designing a Career in Tech
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley Bowles and Michael Norris
In 2022, Mariam Braimah, a digital designer working at Netflix, is considering the next move in her career. She has spent several years at Netflix, and in her spare time, using her savings, has founded a design-focused fellowship program and a consumer insights company... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Nigeria; United States; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Michael Norris. "Mariam Braimah: Designing a Career in Tech." Harvard Business School Case 424-030, January 2024.
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
satisfy finicky customers. It was a baptism by fire that gave Makarim the confidence to turn to Go-Jek full-time and reimagine the company as an app-based service similar to Uber. Uber, which launched in San View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
of our districts are achieving high performance in parts of their systems, and making progress on some key dimensions of student achievement. For instance, San Francisco was the top performing urban district... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small unit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
an associate at KSW Partners LLC (“KSW”), was asked by Katherine Scott, the partner for whom he worked, to recommend a proposed structure to acquire a prominent office building in San Francisco for their... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted by Dennis Campbell and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
to Washington Hospital Center as a pair. Jeffrey Lurie enticed Joe Banner to join him at the Philadelphia Eagles. Dusty Baker brought a cadre of coaches with him from the San Francisco Giants to the Chicago... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
2005, the firm completed its first merger, taking over a 64-person San Francisco firm. Growth was necessary to remain competitive, but could Duane Morris maintain its unique culture while bringing on large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne