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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every interaction with our system is logged, and this data is used to give students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
wants 15 percent of the equity and would take out a loan from your parent company to buy his shares, the loan to be repaid with dividends from those shares. Would you make him a partner? On a cold winter day in Boston, your car battery is... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
started in her early years. The influence of her mother, an artist, and her father, a mathematician-turned-businessman, inspired Leahy to explore both passions throughout her life. Her parents also encouraged her ambitions and were strong... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
teenage sons.” By example: “My parents didn’t teach me their values around work and family—I absorbed them through their example and expectations. My mother was a nurse who was always helping others, and my dad chose to work as a doctor... View Details
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
General Mills products saw significant increases. In fact, Nature Valley Granola Bars sales declined as children stayed home for virtual school. With parents not packing lunches and children eating at home, the portable snack bar business... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
view the process as being as rational as possible. These criteria will be guidelines, not rules, as final decisions will always require subjective judgment. Involve outsiders. Parents can attest to how hard it is to be objective about... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
him an early awareness of the stark economic discrepancies between residents living in luxury high-rises just a few hundred feet from those surviving in slums. “The statistical unlikelihood of my parents meeting, along with those visits... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program
Thanksgiving!Last, but not certainly not least, meeting Mr. J.W. Marriott, Jr. is an experience that I will never forget! In our brief discussion, he told me that learning operations from the ground up is invaluable for my development, noting that he started out in the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
of the rankings in a year before its parent company was acquired but ranked toward the bottom post-merger, the merger would seem to have a negative effect on quality. To that end, Sheen enlisted a team of research assistants to chart... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
both its financial objectives and the parent company's strategic needs. “In most programs, the demands on the corporate venturing team are considerable” The large-sample evidence also suggests that these incentives really do matter. Gary... View Details
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Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, programs and outreach. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
a brand that resonates with children and parents — and even grandparents — alike. While the company has experienced significant volatility in recent years, LEGO has maintained its position in the top five toy brands for the last twenty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have some fifth graders working on trigonometry and some reviewing basic arithmetic. The teacher no longer spends class time lecturing,... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there is greater scope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
down from mentors or parents and, in the process, create a dividing line between those who inherently know how to navigate a workplace environment and everyone else. After working as a career advisor for first-generation and low-income... View Details
- Profile
Kimball Thomas
way for HBS parents to get together and have fun with our families. And Wendy loves the Partners Club – she’s one of the two partner reps for my section.” View Details
- Profile
Damali Brown
undergraduate. "A lot of the distinguished speakers who came to visit Spelman had MBAs, many of them from Harvard," she says. "I equated excellence early on with having an MBA from HBS." Reflecting on her background, Damali observes that while... View Details
- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
programs I had literally no savings and my parents were not going to help me. Going to graduate school meant I was going to have to take out loans and go into debt. What made it even more overwhelming was that I really wanted to do a... View Details