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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
computing chips to between 10 and 20 millikelvins, or -469°F, a temperature at which matter behaves in ways that can only be explained by the abstruse laws of quantum mechanics and at which SEEQC’s chips become fully operational. Of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
an empty lot. To the east stands a vacant building; to the north, a liquor store with iron bars on its windows. In short, it could be any corner in any struggling neighborhood in the United States. Yet for Dlodlo, it might as well be the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
worlds— across cultures, sectors, and disciplines. through social finance, i bring this sensibility to building new models for social change.” Palandjian, who grew up in Hong Kong and came to the United States at 15 to attend Milton... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 07 Nov 2022
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Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me
garment industry in France, so I frequently heard friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States,” he said in a 2014 article from the “First Five Years” HBS alumni profile series. “I found that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
provides and make the city cleaner, safer, and healthier. “We haven’t really changed the way we collect trash in decades,” Tisch says. She aims to fix that. Over the past year, Tisch has leveraged a combination of administrative and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
inhabitants of Seoul, a sprawling metropolis packed with boutiques, nightclubs, and skyscrapers. Kim left Korea in 1974, at age 11. Educated in the United States, he returned as COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one industry after another," Bower... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
beginning was that the only way DTC physical goods make sense, as a venture-fundable, multiple-X return on your investment business, is if you can achieve the strong lifetime value (LTV) to customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) ratio that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
“Here’s a smart guy who had an actual home inspection, so why didn’t he have visibility that these systems were about to fail on him?” It’s standard practice in commercial transactions, and there also are capital reserve requirements for such situations. There must be... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone
enough. With kidneys, for every five people that receive a transplant in the United States every year, one person dies waiting for one. We’re working on two solutions. First, we need to get better drugs that allow organs to function... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
tore down the whole infrastructure that I’d created to keep myself safe from my demons, and then it never ended.” What she could not have anticipated is that, when her world cracked wide open, it would also create a path for her to find her View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Sep 2023
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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
- 26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger
46 employees, and an estimated value of $25 million. Today, Walker & Dunlop is a publicly traded company with a market cap close to $5 billion. While Walker has led massive growth at the company, he realized several years ago that the way... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie
and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross