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- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Managers, which helps students use data analytics tools to identify business opportunities and shape solutions to problems. The MBA Program is also incorporating content about inclusion throughout the curriculum and is exploring in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
conducted an AI exercise called “Storrowed” with students, using GenAI tools, to understand why some trucks ignore the height warnings of overpasses on Boston’s Storrow Drive and regularly get stuck, causing traffic backups. The goal was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
data will confirm. The relative investment in driving new customer acquisition via retail is much lower than ecommerce, where driving site traffic is costly, and even SEO and referrals require investment. So a true apples-to-apples... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
needs, they’re not going to be recycling” he says. “If we’re going to make a significant change, we have to address poverty. Our endeavor at Plastic Bank is to drive the conversation to solutions that use the material—plastic— as currency... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)
I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school experience. Coaching debate... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
took Kim nearly 20 years to write. “My mother still has shrapnel in her stomach,” he says. “I’ve taken this walk with her to see if we can figure out where they hid. She’s kind of curious, but I also don’t think she wants it all to come... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
boutique-filled neighborhood and ending in another. Over at Niedlov’s Breadworks, there are iced lattes and avocado toast—the litmus test for millennial happiness. And humming through it all is a citywide 10-gigabit network, courtesy of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
and fixing them up, creating jobs, and revitalizing neighborhoods,” says Beckford, now the CEO of Diversified Lending Solutions (DLS), a real estate capital advisory based in New York City. “These smaller operators are real engines for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses like boilers and HVAC systems; he was View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
over a cup of coffee. Starting a business is hard. Seventy percent of startups today fail after their seed round, and less than ten percent achieve success for founders and investors. Faced with such a daunting threshold, aspiring entrepreneurs need View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
solutions, and lead change in organizations. We’re proud to have made it possible for all RC students to have access during that course to advanced versions of GAI, which include tools that dramatically simplify programming, to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
not just those with fully formed ideas for ventures? When the i-lab opened in 2011, the Venture Incubation Program was a highly selective effort to curate a smaller group of student teams across all 13 schools. Over time, we wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
knack for recruiting and retaining the right people. And just as he does in all aspects of his life, he brings his natural bias for information-gathering to the task of hiring. “I don’t believe in 51/49 decisions,” he says. “You want to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
boxing center. It’s all part of the regular outreach he conducts with local businesses to garner backing for the “support” side of the El Monte PD’s mission. Timken’s search for gang activity one recent afternoon includes using a digital... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be zero, which is an astonishing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint