Georgia (state, US) - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Oct 2021
News

Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing

Photo via Harvard Innovation Labs Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder of Now, recently spoke to Yahoo Finance Live to discuss its recent $29 million funding round. Hodgson cofounded Now in 2010 with former Georgia gubernatorial... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Fred Newman

Fred Newman remembers a particularly chilly HBS cold call. Completely unprepared to open a finance case, he used a different talent to get through it. Newman did his impression of a fly and buzzed out of his seat and around the Aldrich... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

13 Feb 2020
News

Honoring a Legend

gathering held at the law offices of Morris, Manning & Martin in Atlanta. “We created this award this to recognize a Georgia entrepreneur who has done something significant in their field and made an impact along the way,” says the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Mar 2021
News

Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition

upcoming book Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary. In this program, the two discuss how finding the courage to authentically lead offers us a path forward in life, regardless of our circumstances. View the recording from... View Details

22 Mar 2016
News

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

important to support Harvard Business School on an ongoing basis.” After studying engineering at Georgia Tech, Bill George came to HBS because it was a school for business leaders. Upon earning his MBA, he and six classmates worked for... View Details

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Pranav Kothari

interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity... View Details

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Lara Hodgson

us out of business,” she recalled. Selling to small boutiques had been simple. Those stores paid immediately with a check or credit card. The large companies, on the other hand, paid anywhere from 30 to 90 days after receiving a... View Details

27 Apr 2017
News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

intelligence, but it was a challenge I was willing to take on,” says Strobel, who was assigned to the nuclear sub the USS Georgia after graduating from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in 2010 and doing a... View Details

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When Migrants and Locals Innovate Together, Communities Gain | Working Knowledge

“There’s something that happens during the interaction between a migrant and a local when put together in a room: They write more prosocial ideas compared to two locals,” says Choudhury, who coauthored the paper with Astrid Marinoni of the View Details

31 Jan 2019
News

A Global Mission

King Jr. at Selma and spent time at Kolonia Farms, an interracial community in Georgia that was the target of boycotts and violence. “It was a very moving time for me,” DeFehr says now. But when he returned to Canada, he discovered that... View Details

Keywords: April White; human rights

01 Jun 2022
News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia, the HBS volunteers joined the young... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

this really untapped resource,” she said. “That was something I felt like I wanted to plant my feet in, an industry that had so much room for innovation.” So Shodiya chose to major in aerospace engineering as an undergraduate at Georgia... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and applied for officer training, receiving a nomination to the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in... View Details

23 Sep 2020
News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

native of Finland who competed in track on a full scholarship at Georgia Tech before graduating at the top of her class with a degree in Systems Engineering. “The case method teaches you how to think through business situations and come... View Details