Science And Technology Studies - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)

other person's shoes. Every case study that we read forced us to think about difficult business situations from the perspective of protagonists such as CEOs, engineers, accountants, and even celebrities or... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

strategies. "Few Asian countries have done this," Porter commented, citing chronic problems such as inadequate infrastructure, skilled human resource shortages, deficiencies in science and technology, View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

describes the mission this way. Piero Ricci: It's a group of amateurs who together, try to study where an event has happened. Try to find some relics of the event and then, from what we find, we try to... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Books

dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

Technology had spent most of the night collecting the necessary materials and printing some 1,500 posters commemorating the event, which had become a rallying cry for the country’s anti-Communist activists.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

matter who funds it? How does it evolve logically over time? What insights could you derive from studying that particular set of circumstances, where there’s lots of uncertainty and lots of agency problems,... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

session over a week in June, where they were matched one-to-one with seven HBS alumni mentors for guidance on strategy, problem-solving, and more. The club designed the War Room series to allow HBS alumni to interact directly with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies... View Details

19 Dec 2024
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The Musts of 2024

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Agri-Food Entrepreneurs. We are currently supporting entrepreneurs in 34 African countries to scale their businesses. Changing narratives and driving transformation is a complex process. However, I am most inspired by the young African... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

that war, without realizing that their current adversary is adjusting, changing, and developing new technologies to fight the next war. Falling into this trap is potentially devastating, leaving you... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

HBS, in which two-thirds of the student body are members. Their activities, which are open to the entire HBS community, range from running conferences to leading study trips abroad and from organizing major... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

multiuse retail/coworking/residential spaces. Marietta also tirelessly coaches local business owners and entrepreneurs, advising the owner of a crafts store in downtown Harlan on payroll management one day View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as the View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

administrators, and students," he notes. Toward that end, Dobron and SA Technology Committee chair Judy Stahl (MBA '96) helped put into place the School's new information View Details

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