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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
end in itself may prematurely rule out all kinds of businesses that could otherwise prove successful—businesses like his own Mesken, a direct-to-consumer website that sells custom window treatments manufactured in Bahadir’s native Turkey.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere. “What that is today, it’s a website and software and several thousand videos on anything from basic arithmetic all the way up to college-level calculus and physics... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
ProductivityDecreasing workplace transparency can increase productivity. When Privacy Protection Notices BackfireIt seems counterintuitive, but website privacy protection notices appear to discourage some shoppers from buying. Beware the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
The Women’s College Cohort at Peek Weekend
Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. As a senior in college, prepared to graduate with a job in consulting and a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
delicate corner of the medical world. Although the couple were happily employed—Deborah at a startup, Jake at VC firm Sequoia Capital—the Andersons realized they were that someone. Both left their jobs in 2014 and used personal savings to begin work on FertilityIQ, an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
our whole team was going to be focused on making sure the website was up and fielding customer service calls. We were all hands on deck—we even had a whole bunch of extra people come on to help us out. We just set up a whole response... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Building on Business Basics at HBS
one step at a time. I focused on getting a good score on the GRE first. Then I focused on the application essay. I had many people in my network review my essay, including current HBS students! I recommend finding HBS grads at companies you have worked for, through HBS... View Details
- Web
Residential Life | MBA
Rental Options section of the Harvard University Housing website includes self-service, private-market apartment, room, and house rental listings; roommate listings for Harvard affiliates; and short-term sublet and bed and breakfast... View Details
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
company websites worldwide to present a consistent face to stakeholders is the best way to get control of marketing communications that may have become too decentralized. Why should brand-building be important to B2B CEOs? First, most B2B... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
Together, they made considerable impact, both for the institution and toward Ming’s maturation as a leader. Within her fellowship year, Ming and her colleagues successfully overhauled the website and the infrastructure behind it,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 06 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method
Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. Two years ago, if someone had asked me about my plans for the near future,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. When I was in elementary school my Dad founded Bryan Medical, a small medical... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
figure out other ways to get it to them.” Today, Sun & Swell’s sales come principally through website and wholesale channels that can accommodate the products’ shorter shelf life, including corporate offices and coffee shops. The product... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
potential participants in their ecosystems.” Leveraging the momentum and great reviews on Amazon, the company started selling through its direct-to-consumer websites as well as penetrating other sales channels. For example, Anker also... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
technology-adoption decisions, I’ve been examining how the virtual space can substitute for the physical space, by looking at tech adoption at Stack Overflow, which is like a Q&A website for coders. It’s been surprising to see that... View Details
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
engineer something yet unseen. Whether we’re navigating a website or shared public space, we constantly witness the extent to which our environments and experiences are curated. What do you believe about what people have access to? What... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
without substantial verification of recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using a new dataset on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
I was able to run a sanity check during my first career coaching session with a specialist on immigration policies. As expected, banking was one of the embracing sectors in terms of visa support. The coach also tutored me about the HBS career View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
be a skill I could use in my career,” Amed says by phone from London. In fact, Amed has developed a worldwide following by employing those very same qualities. Launched in 2007, his website The Business of Fashion attracts more than... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa says, “it was electronic music – techno is my passion!” But how would she connect the dots between her enthusiasm for music and her business ambitions? Noa’s advisor suggested she review the websites of large VC firms to see if they... View Details