Virtual Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2016
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Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish

Charlton Ames (MBA 1970) is chairman and vice president of business development for Sea Run Holdings, a virtual firm in Maine that develops innovative biologics and therapeutics from the blood of farmed salmon. In this video he explains... View Details

04 Feb 2016
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From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl

and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

at the Bridgespan Group, a management consulting firm that works with nonprofits. Competitors and judges alike showed their mettle in quickly adapting to the challenges of an all-online competition. “Even in this year’s View Details

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

research was going, and in the conversation that followed the pair quickly realized the extent to which their work overlapped. If they could combine findings from across their assorted research projects, they could fit together a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor and senior associate dean for international development. More than half of the HBS faculty are actively involved in international research. While they often work with a specific global center to pursue... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point

Ton pointed out. Said another student, “They can give their opinions, work as a team, and the boss isn’t necessarily the most important person.” Added a classmate, “They hire people who want to be there for the work, not for the pay or a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

experience during childbirth over a decade ago inspired me to focus on women's health, and I feel this recognition signifies that women’s health is increasingly coming to the forefront. I deeply appreciate the support and interest in the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected

like Mattel, Baby Einstein, and Sesame Street, as well as up-and-coming indie authors that expose children to new cultures, characters, and stories. Caribu also builds its own content. For example, users can visit a museum together through View Details

04 Feb 2022
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Hour by Hour

Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often without transferable skills or training. The cycle wasn’t good for... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Keeping the Beat

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I definitely don’t think that virtual will ever cannibalize the real thing. I genuinely don’t see that happening. That’s some people’s fear. But I do think the benefit is... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

area small businesses that “were in serious trouble” due to COVID. Kane and Bockmann quickly pulled together a plan, formed a leadership team, recruited about 60 alumni volunteers, and set up virtual coaching sessions that initially... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2021
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Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Managing a Master

Luther King, Jr. The music is superb and the evening unforgettable. It is another in a series of triumphs for an artist who seems destined to become a legend. Edward C. Arrendell (MBA '80), a Boston-based consultant at the time, was in Seattle, Washington, View Details

Keywords: Jeff Lazar

25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero and Daniela Izquierdo (both MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Mar 2008
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You’re an Old Fuelie

Hyde, a New Yorker, now devotes himself to keeping that same 1960 Fuelie active and purring and documenting the history of Corvette racing, heretofore a virtual tabula rasa. Hyde and other fans are working... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)

folks who have worked at pure-play digital companies. Both love the brand equally, but they have different ideas about what is possible for the brand.” The bleeding edge: “Is a place every company should want to be. Selectively. For... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2010
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Making a Difference

Three stories in this issue will introduce you to remarkable individuals who work in strikingly different fields but who share a common passion — the pursuit of ideas that are changing the way others think and act. Gayle Lemmon (MBA ’06),... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity

foundation of our work with students is relationship-based because they need social-emotional support,” she explains. “We also created the Community Connections Program, which is designed to keep us purposefully and thoughtfully connected... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Feb 2008
News

The Right Stuff at HBS

us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Brighton kids and coach celebrate a job well done. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice... View Details