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Erika Sanchez

With back-to-back degrees in engineering, it’s no surprise that Erika Sanchez was attracted to Boeing. “I presented technical solutions to management teams that had the authority to allocate funds,” Erika says. “I quickly learned that to get funding, I’d have to... View Details

20 Aug 2024
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Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. On July 17th, BEI convened students and local alumni on the HBS campus to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and challenges at the intersection of... View Details

25 Apr 2012
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How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

appraisal of opportunities for new business startups. Furthermore, analytics (not the data) should be a source of continuing competitive advantage. In his new book, Charles Duhigg describes how the retailer... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

17 Sep 2015
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Why We Recruit: Innosight

envisioning and building new platforms for business growth. Our focus on helping clients design and create the future means that you will learn and master skills that blend creativity and analytical rigor... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Fumi Tamaki

In college, Fumi Tamaki pursued economics and international studies, because she thought “it would help me understand how governments and businesses work.” To apply what she learned, she joined Charles River Associates as an antitrust... View Details

25 Sep 2015
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4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

we had a shared passion for technology and building great user-focused products: four out of the six team members had cofounded their own company, three had worked in product development, and four were engineers. Everyone on the team was very View Details

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Benjamin Story

"Summer Analytics was great. I loved it." Eventually, Ben intends to return to southern California for "something in media and entertainment," which is the focus of his internship search as well. "I don't want to... View Details

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Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 22 Jan 2025 Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Paige Arnof-Fenn Author Alumni tag All Industries All Locations Alumni Student & Alumni Stories When I decided to attend Harvard View Details

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

Faculty & Research Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator About the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator From 2015–2020, the Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) worked to create View Details

April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
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Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson

Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Initial Public Offering; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation

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Fatou Bintou Sagnang

in Abu Dhabi and two years with McKinsey, Fatou's enthusiasm for business grew, and with it, the desire to learn how to make herself more effective. "For me," Fatou explains, "coming to View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Tech

11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better

difference every day, and I knew I had the skills to do it," says Tepper Singer, who is married to section-mate Dan Singer. "Not that many people have come to the non-profit field with business training." Her View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details

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Rob Casper

were able to instruct them, and they were able to learn new operational capabilities. The lesson? You see, you learn, you adjust.” Long-term leadership Rob found leadership so rewarding he looked for a way “to do it longer, not just in short command stints. View Details

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Kayode Ogunro

operations, from entrepreneurship. It provides an overall competence in all management aspects that really makes sense." "At Weston Presidio," Kayode says, "I had seen a lot of companies in similar situations. But now I can see them within a more... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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HBX: Expanding Our Reach

business education and pedagogy.” — Professor Bharat Anand, HBX Faculty Chair The strategic focus of HBX centers on the potential for impact. For new audiences, this will equate to transformational educational experiences delivered around... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Jun 2011
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Bold Ascent

flags with the SlingFin logo), Baka reflects on how his HBS experience plays into the nontraditional world of outdoor gear design. “It’s a framework of thought and analytics that is deeply ingrained as part of classroom discussion,” he... View Details

Keywords: hiking; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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