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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
in Aldrich 108, "somewhat below the professor's sight line," Bricklin relates with a chuckle, "my mind wandered, and I imagined a sort of trackball on the bottom of the pocket calculator I was holding. I envisioned a computer screen on... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
Growing up in the countryside of Japan, Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022) attended a small school with fifty other students. She had good friends and teachers and never imagined something might be missing until she moved to Nagoya, Japan for... View Details
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can’t even imagine in advance.” After stints at Instagram, McKinsey, and Prada, Shelly began her MBA studies at HBS. In her first semester, she found the Harvard i-Lab. She told Climate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
environment, and society. Imagine living a life where you have no idea what your speed is when you’re driving: This is like the society that we have built. The outcomes that we’re getting aren’t very surprising since we’re not actually... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
here without him.When I think back on the last eight years, I know I am who I am today because he has always pushed me to pursue my dreams, no matter how big. Now, I can’t imagine life without him. Arielle Anderson (HBS MBA 2022) and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
by this terrible disease. Your total physical manifestation is affected by this. You lose the ability to walk. You lose the ability to move your hands, to pick things up, to feed yourself. You know, imagine that. View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
Yeah. My fifth grade teacher, Gwendolyn Davis, was about the most terrifying educator I had ever had up to that point and probably since. I mean, sort of imagine the terror of a first year at HBS cold call, and amplify it by about a... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
It might be hard for the ordinary business owner or consumer to imagine having "too much" money. But that's exactly where the venture capital industry finds itself: with too much money available for the number of emerging... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
the bell curve. "If you imagine your life as a bell curve, on one end there is the five percent of issues and problems people typically don't share but that need resolution," he says. "On the other end of the curve, we have that five... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
It's easy to deliver lousy service. Examples are too numerous to mention and let's not ruin the day, shall we? But imagine this: How about living in a world where companies treat you, as a customer, nicely and it benefits them as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
should be practicing anyway. The only new element is that it has to be practiced in a different (remote) work environment. As David Wittenberg put it, “It might take a bit more time to connect with employees online instead of walking by their cubicles, but I can’t... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
donors and volunteers but all citizens. From the imaginative campaign logo to the thirty-minute infomercial, Obama's communications were professional without being slick, attention-getting without being in-your-face. Fourth, Obama reached... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
that/ done that is also beneficial. At the end of the day, you’re going to find an internship. If you are skeptical and need further reassurance beyond my optimism, imagine the above meme in Oprah’s voice. Boston Winter After 9 months of... View Details
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
environmentally. It's a real privilege to have this opportunity as a member of the Harvard community—I can't imagine another place where this kind of impact would be possible! SEI: What is the role of Social Enterprise at HBS? Why is it... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
although nostalgia may help some companies sell consumers a range of products, it’s ultimately bad for business and the economy. They imagine that by keeping people focused on the past, nostalgia undermines innovation, creativity, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
from those present." 81 Edwin Land remained dedicated to the science and the art of creating a transformative photographic process that would capture the imagination of amateurs and earn the recognition of professionals. "The criticism... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
home-cleaning product line, opened nearly 500 company stores, and doubled sales (it doesn’t disclose figures). The future looked bright — until last August 29. That’s when Hurricane Katrina almost ruined everything. In the storm’s aftermath, Oreck, 54, faced a crisis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he or she needs next." EQUAL OPPORTUNITY "It's wrong to View Details