women in tech - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)

listening—is one of Ratio’s key differentiators. We are finding ways to connect with groups that are of particular interest to our clients, such as women in investing positions.” “The impact of millennials,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Jun 2011
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Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund

Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved from the View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

25 Aug 2022
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Hair Today

When Britney Winters (MBA 2016) tuned in to this year’s Super Bowl, she was more focused on the halftime show than the game itself. When that moment came, Winters watched as Grammy Award–winning singer Mary J. Blige rocked 40 cascading... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; hair; beauty; Houston; Super Bowl

01 Mar 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)

athletes. That’s crazy if you’re truly trying to represent 50 percent of the population. One of the biggest compliments is when little boys ask me for my autograph. They respect and look up to me—hopefully that will change their perception of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2005
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Last Look

been highly constrained lives.” He adds, “These young women were pretty much stranded in a pathetic little encampment of (former) U.S. Navy prefabs — known as ‘Tortilla Flats’— plopped down about where the... View Details

Keywords: HBS history; history; photograph; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

and send it to the company via a prepaid shipping box in exchange for cash. After that, Gazelle resells the tech to individuals, wholesalers, and international buyers. So far, so good: To date, Boston-based... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2006
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Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

disclosure. Women Find New Path to Work Recently retired professor Myra Hart’s New Path program helps HBS alumnae reenter the work world. Here is a look at what participants learned about life, work, and the rapidly changing world of... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

business lending market. This ambitious book grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the dynamics of innovation cycles, and the policy implications for regulation. Air-Crazy, Too: More Fascinating... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Poverty and Security

At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details

Keywords: IMF and World Bank Group; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

Technology Ventures. I think taking that class was one of the most important things, other than BEI and the Energy & Environment Club, that I did while at HBS. The class can help those interested in the energy sector learn lessons from... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart

David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. He asked his tour guide... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

intimate and immediate,” she said, noting that 1871 is home to 500 early-stage tech startups. “We’re a place to bring together all of the stakeholders—venture capital, universities, and corporate partners,” she said. Mark Tebbe, who... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

companies. You aren’t going to apply them to your core business that’s growing at 10 percent a year, but you could apply them to that area that is small but growing quickly with the potential to be the leader in a new market. It doesn’t... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual

trying to do good can forget that people are the best experts on their own lives. Crucial to actually helping people is listening to them and understanding what they think they need. So many education efforts have gotten into trouble by believing that there is a silver... View Details