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Scott Wu
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris
the incredible network that business school opens became a lot more apparent to me after a few years in the working world. Tyler – It was a bit clearer to me that I wanted to attend business school. After a couple years of consulting, I... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Here’s a great saying that’s been particularly relevant in my life over the past few years: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” To rewind a bit, I was named president of Micron Technology in January 2012. Five days later, my boss, the CEO, died in a... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
behavior. At the other are open source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus
just hired our 450th employee. The growth has been pretty wild, and it’s been really exciting watching us take the US market by storm, launch additional products, and gain a real foothold in a couple of international markets. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Frances Dixon
independent research project on water technologies. “I’m interested in private sector solutions. There are a couple of Boston startups that are investigating new technologies for filtering water or desalinating water with less energy. I... View Details
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Bei Guo
R&D, and venture capital." With her colleagues, Bei visited businesses that ranged in size from a startup "that began in a hotel room with a couple of laptops" to a large manufacturer that was developing a new, much... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
voices vanished every couple of hours, as Collins’s command module slipped behind the moon, where neither the astronauts nor Mission Control could reach him. The views were stunning all around. But for Collins, the finest sight was the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
As David Linn (MBA 2000) and his wife of five years, Jen Goodman Linn (MBA 1999), sat across a table for two at an outdoor cafe in Manhattan, they looked like any other young couple sharing lunch on a sunny spring day. But there was... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
couple of weeks, our host shot back, "A couple of weeks! Put something down on a sheet of paper and give to me before you leave today." We received the money in early June, just as the entire... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Blog Post
Crossing the Atlantic
circles and have left me dizzy and dazzled. Though that sounds like a pretty bad carnival ride, it’s certainly better than blindly following the herd. That’s it for the next couple years. What comes next I don’t know. Whatever the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
It was the most important contributor to my professional achievements.” With a charitable remainder trust, the couple combined their long-term financial and tax planning objectives with their philanthropic goals. “It is a convenient and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Authors:Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Xue (Ken) Yuan
studies and his experience in complex chemical polymers, Xue has a passion for stand-up comedy. “It started about two years ago, when a couple of my friends returned from Canada and we talked about how Shanghai had nowhere to go for... View Details
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Rocio Parra
says. In fact, she completed a couple of high-tech consulting internships while attending Stanford. But her senior project led to a major change in plans. "I was part of a team that conducted marketing strategy for a digital... View Details
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Matthew Mariner
firm exposed him to the public-sector part of business. A couple of years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, "allowed me to explore a variety of industries and ultimately helped me find my true interest: technology." The power of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
media, but we have seen our young adult’s and our children’s business grow over the last couple of years. It would be our proudest accomplishment to provide them with the best books possible in every format. Return to The Year in Books... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
have been exploring the intersection of design and entrepreneurship for a couple of years. We’ve concluded that human-centered design skills are an ideal set of tools for someone who wants to lead a tech venture. These methods can be... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
their three college-aged children. “Everything was going along just great,” Sontag recalls. “Then came the evening of June 24, 1994, and our entire earth came apart.” That night, Susan had a stroke that left her with short-term memory loss and seizures. A few months... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li