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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2010, Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) was teaching a course he developed at HBS called Founder’s Dilemmas, which focused on the challenges that young startups face.... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
necessary to save his brother’s life, but intent on laying some sort of foundation for success. The first step was an undergrad degree at Cornell, close to his family’s upstate New York home, and then on to HBS. While here, Horgan started two organizations—a biotech... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100 View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
editor while gaining a firsthand education in storytelling-widget management. “A television show like The West Wing is really a company that is in the business of making 22 episodes a year,” Singer says. “John Wells is an amazing producer... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
team.” You know? Will they still follow?" And I had a conversation with one of our directors, Shelly Lazarus. She basically said, "Look. You're the best person to lead the company out of this. Right? You can't look back. There's other... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
advising US companies on ways to navigate the newly opened market. At the height of the thaw, demand for consulting had become so strong that the brothers were having to turn away potential clients. It felt a bit like a gold rush. This... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
centrally planned for you,” she says. “I took a test when I was 10 that showed I was good in science, so I was put into a science high school. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to be in science.” When it was time for college, Bandourian did something unexpected.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
are. And I think crucibles are the place we grow. DM: Chad, you also talk in the book about how your experience has gifted you with empathy and specifically that you lived two lives, meaning that you lived as a young man, able-bodied. And... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
modest and unassuming, is speaking, as he often does to young people, about the virtues of hard work, perseverance, and other old-fashioned values. When the Denver Broncos All-Pro running back finishes his talk, it's time to turn the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
know, so I think sometimes people will be a little bit too much in a hurry to say, oh, here's what I want to do long-term, and so I got to jump in and do that right now. But to have the opportunity to work for a really well-established View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and nonprofit sectors, balancing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
business in Fargo, North Dakota, from a culture in which “my high-school principal thought anything east of the Mississippi was communistic,” Goldberg recalls. But as it happened, the sister of a neighboring farmer was Ada Comstock, the president of Radcliffe. So View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
composed of “propaganda written in white-hot anger with words tumbling and stumbling all over the page.” ...Several chemical companies threatened legal action. Velsicol Chemical Company, maker of chlordane and heptachlor, tried to prevent... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to... View Details