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- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
With demand growing, Khan eventually left his full-time job as a hedge fund analyst to devote himself full-time to Khan Academy, bootstrapping it for the first nine months before receiving early support from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
made many, many other life-changing contributions. Be Prepared Peter Kiernan (MBA 1965) ON THE VERY FIRST DAY OF CLASS, MY section of 100 classmates entered Professor Marty Marshall's introductory Marketing course and sat down randomly in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (MBA ’90) remembers it well. “When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When I left, it was in a virtual depression.” Classmate Hoke Slaughter (MBA ’90) recalls that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
commented that half of Trump supporters belonged in a “basket of deplorables.” The op-ed went viral. After several appearances on CNN and interviews with a range of newspapers, I set up my professional life so I could continue the voter research. Instead of taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
subservient to the needs of the story. “I saw Wolf of Wall Street,” says coproducer Linda Zwack Munger (MBA 1982), a former senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ mortgage bond department. “It’s so unrealistic.” In addition to not always doing a good View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering and then took a View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
Kundu, who started StopLift in 2003 after studying the problem as a student at Harvard Business School. In fact, it was one sentence in a case he read about Walmart, in his first year at HBS, that sparked his quest for a solution. “It... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment, job... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
New Dean Srikant Datar talks about his background, immediate objectives, and recent accomplishments. What makes HBS so special? What makes him proud? What is he most looking forward to? Learn more about our new Dean—during his first few... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
IBM-based network built around Lotus Notes in the Advanced Management Program. These two initiatives led to enhanced faculty collaboration and the first use of interactive multimedia teaching tools for case discussion. Just as many... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the founding sheriff’s promise to the murdered girl’s mother. The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right By Gorick Ng (MBA 2018) Harvard Business Review Press Most career guides assume that you already know how the working world works. But if you’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
environment where 115-plus local breweries work together to create some of the best craft beer in the country. In addition, San Diego County has done a nice job of diversifying its water resources. With that said, we expect the landscape... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
lot of fantastic complementarities between fieldwork and lab work. Zoë’s projects have all of this rich complexity from the field, where you can see beautiful things like long-term outcomes and high stakes. But I also think her job is... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
His family later moved to California and Oregon, and the pull of environmentalism was always strong as he was growing up. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Stanford in 1998, but found environmental jobs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high... View Details