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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
businessman like Bancel, the technology would be inexpensive to produce. Still, Bancel was incredulous. The numbers seemed too good to be true, and he was reluctant to leave a prestigious job to join a company with one employee and one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
rediscover the buffalo for new ways of living, thinking, and producing. He wasn’t being literal; it wasn’t our job to lift a gun and go hunt. Rather, it was to discover for oneself what the next buffalo was going to be. My buffalo so far... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
create an exceptional environment for teaching, learning, and research, and the alumni offer their time, talent, and treasure to propel us forward. I draw great inspiration from this. What did you find to be most challenging about the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The recovery that followed offered time for reflection. A few months later, on vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
deal included $1.8 billion in cash, plus a potential future $200 million milestone payment for a clinical-stage drug to treat brain cancer and a 5 percent royalty on the US sales of Tibsovo, a drug used to treat certain types of blood-cell cancer. Mathur started his... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
transition to a low-carbon economy. Roosevelt’s dual career interests offer a singular perspective on the evolving relationship between business and the environment. “For years,” he explains, “environmentalists had to push from the bottom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Runner-Up and Lovin’ It
told Greta Van Susteren of Fox News (April 16, 2004). “I’ll be doing endorsements, book deals, et cetera.” He’s also planning to launch a media company and looking to raise $5 to $20 million for the start-up over the next year. Then there’s the surprise investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
share that enthusiasm with a group that is also unlikely to fit the traditional insurance mold: people in their 20s, 30s, and even 40s. Terry, who worked in product management at Liberty Mutual for a dozen years, observes that life used to be more linear: Getting a... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
been named the board’s executive director. Jaresko offered Negrón-Reichard a job, so he left his analyst job in New York and moved home to San Juan. It wasn’t an easy decision. “Frankly, as a Puerto Rican, I... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
framework, with each day representing a big step the organization can take to implement real change with real speed, and offers examples of what success really looks like. READ MORE Dan Morrell: Anne, can you briefly walk us through this... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care about doing the View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
when, and why working in a startup is right for you; evaluate the viability of a startup you are considering joining; learn how startup dynamics and rules benefit investors, not employees; negotiate a better job View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
focused on AI and ChatGPT. The session featured sectionmate Philippe Goetschel (MBA 1982), who volunteered to share practical ways to use ChatGPT for everyday tasks like meal planning, making travel itineraries, or even practicing for a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
face rejection are job requirements for entrepreneurs. “No one person can build a company,” says Dahod, reflecting that one of the most difficult moments in his career was when he sold Starent to Cisco and decided to build a new team. “I... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
business and civic leaders helped the city clean up its act, but by the early 1980s, most of the smokestacks had shut down anyway, as manufacturing jobs moved out of the area. People left in droves. Visitors today see a different... View Details