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01 Jun 2010
News

Michael Depatie

customers, so of course it makes sense that we care for our employees and our communities as an extension of that. Eco-consciousness has been part of the company since the beginning, given our practice of recycling and renovating older... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

internships, and trainings. Making Inroads into Finance Working with INROADS, Ramirez connected with Wellington Management and an internship in finance. “It was a very rewarding experience,” Ramirez shared. “I had a community of people... View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of empathy and skills as a communicator and connector. When James Harmon, chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

minimal attention from historians and sociologists of science, whose analysis of scientific infrastructure has instead focused on formal scientific communication through journal articles and online forums, the formation of new disciplines... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

Madame C. J. Walker is an example of an entrepreneur who took advantage of industrial change, Koehn said. Walker, a creator of hair care products, built a brand and brought it to market. But she needed the creation of the railroad and telegraph to be able to View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

applications," he said. "Think of your automobile. Thirty computers are [embedded] there. Think of the ability of computers to communicate with each other to do diagnostics." The last-mile problem was "killer" in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

these learnings in the business context at HBS. Austin: If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that structural racism isn’t just a public policy problem. Changing the policies, practices, and institutions that have harmed and oppressed View Details

15 Mar 2019
Blog Post

PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

the program. First, dream big, chart your own course, and don’t take no for an answer (though you should get used to hearing it). The JD/MBA community of students and alumni is full of inspiring people who chart their own course.... View Details

17 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021

including many alumni that used to sit in our seats in Aldrich – and hopefully be inspired about the type of impact they could make post HBS. Similarly, for alumni, we wanted to provide them with an opportunity to reconnect with the HBS View Details

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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

such as bert-base-multilingual-uncased that leverage BERT, RoBerta, and DistillBERT, and are available on HuggingFace . Packages Capturing How Text is Communicated Spelling and grammar error detection Detect language of text Reading level... View Details

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

every step of the patient journey (at pharmacies, rehab/physical therapy practices, and health care centers), and expand the ambassador program through trusted word-of-mouth channels (senior influencers on social media, and WhatsApp and View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We certainly have made progress on the legal front, and I think as a... View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

clients,” Treacy notes, adding the most important takeaway the company received from the NVC was retrospection. “The HBS competition was the first real opportunity I had to step back from the hectic day-to-day and really do some soul searching about Cobli’s vision and... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

01 Jun 2018
News

Case Study: Tip the Scale

over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Case Study: Sweat the Technique

their apps (minimizing Nix’s customer acquisition costs), and then used and repurposed by vast communities of fitness consumers in novel ways that only escalate the value to them and to Nix. Yes, Nix still needs the physical product, but... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

dependent on their star talent and its motivation and productivity. As our economy shifts more toward “knowledge workers,” we believe that professional service firms will be a model for many other types of businesses — from technology to health care to View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

December 2018
Case

Choosy

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2017, Choosy is a data-driven fashion startup that uses algorithms to identify styles trending on social media. After manufacturing similar items using a China-based supply chain, Choosy sells them to consumers through its website and social media pages.... View Details

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23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

other cities and other countries,” Neeley points out. Despite these upsides, however, shifting to working remotely is not without its challenges, especially when it comes to communication and coordination among managers and employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

Rothschild’s private placement group), took an interest in her and became a mentor. After graduating, Brown worked at CSFB in New York for four years in real estate and private equity before enrolling at HBS. Last summer, she worked in London at Bridges View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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