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Filippo Mezzanotti

research interests are broadly focused on corporate finance and political economics. Motivated by my interest in both of these fields, I am currently working on a project with a fellow student that will employ Italian data to understand... View Details

13 May 2025
News

If I Knew Then

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

11 Oct 2022
News

On Balance

to do the same work as her. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of gender discrimination,” she observes. The knowledge that women across Australia have endured similar—and often far... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Jul 2020
News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

that could better personalize middle and high school education, closing the gap between students who excelled and those who needed support? So, in 2012, Zaikos launched the Intrinsic School—a network of public charter schools with an... View Details

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Career Journey | MBA

team at HBS helps students realize their unique career visions. Whether one knows exactly what they want to do or are still exploring possibilities, CPD is there to guide each student every step of the way with personalized career tools... View Details

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

addition, they regard gathering such data as a poor use of their time. There is also the adverse-selection concern that doctors might avoid difficult cases and difficult patients to boost their ratings. 2. Privacy. Rating a doctor is more... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

16 May 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry

applicable in a business context but also in my personal life. Sometimes I think of HBS as “life school”! What’s your favorite memory? My favorite memory is when my LEAD professor, Ryan Raffaelli, wrote a song for our class on the last... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Swimming with the Stream

just a jogging soundtrack. “How can I be the person people think of when they think about power and inspiration? How can I be the go-to destination for music and feminism?” she says. “The best companies are the ones that think, ‘How can I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

likely to collaborate on a deal than were two VCs from different alma maters. And the probability of collaboration between VCs increased by 39.2 percent if they were members of the same ethnic minority group. The data held up with what... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

Before completing the personal survey, some participants took a test called "Phind the phishing emails," in which they viewed screen shots of email messages and identified them as "just spam" or "phishing"—the common cybercrime of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data and analytics “It takes an abundance of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

better understand the challenges various groups face and appreciate what each person brings to the table. “A core general management skill today and tomorrow is the ability to make the most out of human differences,” Rivkin notes.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

spotty, thanks to continuing internecine rivalries within the Republican Party.Trump's comparative advantage is in social media. He used controversial tweets, sometimes incorporating personal attacks, to dominate the news cycle during the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation. Time - a precious asset in any industry - has... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Sep 2020
News

Lifting Fallen Families

awareness to the needs of these families. To date, the foundation has provided $33 million in support to 1,600 students. Kim wants to reach all students, but concedes they can be difficult to find. “The government tracks some of that data... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

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Real Property - Course Catalog

personal investments through direct ownership, partnerships, or securities. It is also an excellent precursor for related Spring electives including Real Estate Private Equity and Real Estate Investing. Course Content and Structure The... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

celebrates the final approval with them. The price for its assistance for a marriage green card application: $950, a fraction of the cost of a personal immigration attorney. “We are doing this at scale,” Wang says to explain the savings.... View Details