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- 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 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
of laughter from the burly men sporting crew cuts and gold DSNY shields who had gathered around her conference table. (The agency employs approximately 7,500 uniformed workers and 2,500 civilian staffers.) “I really like the modernizing piece of it,” Tisch says of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
contacted Mathur: “Hey, do you want to chat? There might actually be something here.” For its part, Agios solicited offers from a dozen firms in the health care credit and royalty financing space with which it had preexisting... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
relativity. Those interests led to degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and even some opportunities to work on projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. But his life plans took a sharp turn on a Tuscany... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
push them really hard. And then, in the process of this work, it changed the way you approached that group. So let’s take that example and talk about how that illustrates the value of the work that you were doing around anger management.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
of an idea with the potential to solve a problem or address an unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” learning and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
reforms. Burden Hall was made possible by the Burden family, leaders in business and the arts. A big space designed for big moments, it became the focal point of community life at HBS. In the fall of 2017, after 46 eventful years, Burden... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
(AMP 1999, 2021): My name is Kelly Mackey, AMP 2021. My favorite podcast has to be Deep Purpose by Ranjay Gulati. I read his book, I joined one of his classes last year, and it's been fantastic. So much so that my company is now leveraging his material to train our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
focus of Dear Avant Gardener, her popular free newsletter about transforming outdoor spaces into beautiful, sustainable sanctuaries. Every two weeks, Evans dives into some native-gardening question—why it’s better to cut rather than pull... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
worked on transactions that required more than $50 million in capital. That created a major gap in the market, leaving commercial real estate operators who develop or renovate smaller properties with more limited funding options. Whereas... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
And so we've spent a lot of time on innovation like that, where it's like you have a big goal in mind. You have something really substantial you want to achieve, and you work backwards from that and you take the time to achieve it. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
in their own way. “The MBA experience is such an incredible space to dwell in this future possibility of your life, a chance to process everything that you’re bringing with you,” says Morriss. “It was clear that Drew was very proud of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
graduation from HBS approached, O'Donnell seemed poised to go to work for Ross Perot, who had already made a national name for himself as founder of Electronic Data Systems. Offer in hand, however, he decided against it. "As my wife,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He... View Details
Keywords: April White