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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
which was held on May 18 in the city. Intended to explore the impacts of technology on the nature and availability of work in San Francisco, the all-day conference invited alumni to join a conversation with HBS faculty, city stakeholders, and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages. Silicon Valley has been the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
advertising and marketing filled with stark depictions of the harsh realities of drug use. On this episode of Skydeck, Langford speaks with associate editor Julia Hanna about how they’ll craft these messages, how effective they can be—and why a former View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Google isn’t completely shutting down the online ad industry, says Gupta. In March, the tech giant unveiled its new cookie-alternative technology called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), a browser standard that will allow companies to... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
sensations like Jenna Marbles to billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, and proves why the old strategies aren’t working and why only the boldest and baddest ideas will survive. A Love Affair Spanning More Than Half a Century by Ruth Seligman... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
even been overtaken by, market forces and finance? How big and how pervasive is the business of sports? Swinging for the Seats A recent Georgia Tech study put the value of the sports industry at $152 billion annually. But HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
product development into this market, right? So you know, some of the stereotypes might be that older stage consumers might be tech averse. They might be stuck in their ways, might be averse to change. How do you make sure, maybe from a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
suppose, attract that new wave of talent that you're seeing? JI: Yeah. Look. I think in two ways you've got to sell the mission harder. You know? And, and I think that's where big companies still have great strengths. Is that scale can help solve clean View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
own or use a complex shipping route that runs from the United States to Panama and then Jamaica before arriving in Havana to avoid sanctions—a trip that can take between four and six weeks. Dorian Carbonell Fernández, a high-profile hair stylist with a massive social... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
“expectations of integrity and display of compassion really reflect Mercy Corps team members around the world and how they show up for work every day,” says Kordestani, cofounder of the tech startup Crowdpac and a former director at... View Details