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Career Advancement | Research Associates
know I can go into a new situation, ask the right questions, and represent my firm well. Ayesha Kanji, BA, Biology, Wellesley College; MA, Harvard School of Public Health 0 The position offered the flexibility I needed to develop and launch a View Details
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Whitney Wilson
Whitney Wilson began her career in international development, assuming a role with the American Chamber of Commerce in Jordan during the midst of the Arab Spring. “I was introduced to CEOs involved in international trade,” Whitney says. “Through them, I was exposed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
economy has been moving at an incredible pace over the last five years,” says Diamond, who works as VP of business development at start-up ThinkEco. “We thought that if we could get some of our alumni... View Details
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Nicole Ledoux
Nicole (HBS '08) is Co-founder/CEO of 88 Acres, a Consumer Products company in the Natural Food space. She has experience in brand building, business development, new product launch, fundraising & financing as well as manufacturing.... View Details
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Lindsay Muller
business and gained experience leading teams, managing a P&L, and scaling a start-up. Prior to that, she worked at a Series A kidney dialysis start-up in Tanzania. Lindsay also has a background in social... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
Practice. With their backgrounds in business leadership, in companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals, they bring a wealth of experience to the classroom across all the School’s educational... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Do Good: Eat Chocolate
scrappy,” she recalls. “I learned a lot about the community-building aspects of consumer marketing. That experience has been totally relevant to what we’re doing at sweetriot.” When the start-up siren call got too strong, Endline began... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
have the motivation that you are doing something that could be meaningful to the world helps you stick it out through the hard times." A mechanical engineer by trade who had worked in design for Honda and Toyota, Schrader came to Harvard View Details
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Okan Okutgen
Therefore he enjoys helping students bridge their technical interest and background with commercial roles and business context. He has also made the switch from a start-up to management consulting and then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge. “We need to apply View Details
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Max Reichel
"I'm working on a business plan for a consumer internet start-up," he says. Max will use his EC year to explore his plan even further "and determine whether it is something I'll do right after school, or whether I'll... View Details
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Beau D'Arcy
HBS students hoping to launch their own business ventures? "I heard a lot of advice as I was building my businesses; I had two prior start-ups which failed. The point that always hit home with me was,... View Details
Rob Gierkink
billion and is now the backbone of the Oracle Data Cloud. Prior to founding Datalogix Rob co-founded and was CEO of Loyalty Management Group, the company that established and runs the Nectar program, the United Kingdom's largest loyalty program. The company grew from a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
policymakers who don’t understand the business arena, and funds that end up in the wrong pockets. In the book, I use examples from Australia to illustrate both problems. Earlier this decade, the Australian government stipulated that the... View Details
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
item menu that would help facilitate rapid growth through a drive-in retail model. FIELD 3, Tuce observes, “pushes you to see how entrepreneurs work. It gives you a sense of what it would be like to build a business from scratch and... View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
`This is a huge opportunity. I’ve been given every opportunity so how do I make the most of it? How do I find my passion and be the change I want to make in the world?“ Coming to HBS in 2013, she immediately immersed herself in the View Details
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Alex Slusky
has paid off. “By differentiating ourselves from the ordinary VC,” says Alex, “we have grown from a nascent start-up in 1997 to a partnership that now manages $2 billion in assets today. If you look at the West Coast PE industry, you’ll... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
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The Knowledge Coach
"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
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Mariano Bomaggio
during my undergraduate career, I became more interested in the business side of things. It seemed more complex; there were more dimensions you cannot control compared to a standard engineering problem." After graduation, Mariano... View Details