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- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
still a student for a couple of reasons. One was because of the great people I met there and the friends I made. The other was because of opportunities, such as the section experience and FIELD, where I formed some of the relationships... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Bank of Chicago, who was launching his own venture-capital firm with a couple of other colleagues from the bank. After graduating from HBS, Rauner headed back to his hometown of Chicago and became one of the first associates in what was... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
price. Included is a summary of US newspapers' diminished circulation and advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Ace Your Phone or Video Interview
there are a couple of strategies you can use to increase your confidence and make a strong impression. First, smile! Smiling affects your tone of voice and helps you demonstrate enthusiasm – even if the interviewer can’t see you. Try it... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
topic to understand better. Q: How did you go about designing your study in order to get a handle on this topic? A: It actually took us a couple of tries to come up with this design. The challenge was coming up with an experimental design... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
“In the first couple of weeks, there were programs with CPD career coaches to help you think high-level about what you wanted from your personal and professional career, and I attended quite a few of those sessions,” she shared. Through... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
is helping grow the pie for everyone. “How do I scale myself?” she asks. The Answers: I think Lily should prioritize three to five markets rather than being overwhelmed about a national expansion, and a couple of tactical next-steps come... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
to hustle on the street for a couple of dollars a day. “The minimum income here is about $45 a month. When they graduate, and find work, they are making $90,” Rewane says, adding that WAVE Academy is poised to pilot a new soft-skills... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Baxter people worked first as assistants to senior managers and then were put into project-based assignments where they learned about different parts of the company. Within a couple of years, they were given responsibility for running... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
independent company on the Australian stock exchange, and diversified its leadership team, which had been primarily male before she joined. “For a couple of years, it felt like we were building everything from scratch,” says Weckert, who... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
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
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Then it got worse: He fell for an audacious Ponzi scheme that swallowed up much of his fortune. A mild-mannered man who began his career as an accountant, Von Allmen was an unlikely victim, but as he told me a couple of years later, "I... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Becoming a Consulting Expert
serve those needs. The good news is, after banging my head against the wall for the first couple of weeks, I started to realize that I can be a consulting expert. It takes a lot of work, but it’s work I can do. The even better news? It’s... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
rise of 3G, of the internet,” Kerr says. “You had a couple of wars, you had a great recession, you had 9/11. There's been lots and lots of things that have hit that world. And [software has] only continued to rise up.” Add that to the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
coupled with the diminished availability of financing, may have a negative impact on entrepreneurs’ ability to obtain cash, exit, and innovate. Silverthorne: What advice would you give to high-tech entrepreneurs facing this launch/no... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
factors influenced the cycles: a rush to build too many ships when market demand rose, coupled with a lack of attention owners paid to increasing worldwide competition. In the paper, Greenwood and Hanson point to Nicholas Kaldor's... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
these requires a combination of diligence and tough-mindedness. A couple of years ago Cisco called a halt to all new IT efforts and spent over eighteen months and $300 million to resolve exactly these kinds of dissimilarities within the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Underhill has found that retail environments that foster communication between couples or groups who shop together do more business. A pleasing environment with attractive lighting and décor not only makes an individual shopper linger,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
educating yourself. It has been a time where racism has been so blatantly obvious that you may have felt the desire to read a couple of articles and post a black box on Instagram on a random Tuesday. As next week approaches, you may be... View Details