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- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
effects of the HBS case-method on his approach to secondary education, Ellison said, “I often frame new concepts around a useful real-world problem in need of a solution. For many years, while teaching students about mortgages in View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Lipstein
A high-school economics class sparked Jeremy Lipstein's growing interest in all things business-related. "I liked the way it explained the behaviors of individuals, firms, and governments," Jeremy says. At Colgate, he continued... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
everything. There’s so much predigested information out there, but that’s not where creativity comes from. There’s much more to life than what goes on in the classroom or the boardroom. And yet, the classroom is important. I still use what I learned from Ron Frank in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
impossible for me to answer this question without sounding hyperbolic, but the reality is VR has the potential to dramatically transform how we live, work, and socialize. Today, VR’s consumer experiences are mostly related to games and... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after... View Details
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Kamya Jagadish
please send Kamya an email. Full-Time Employment Experience Presidential Innovation Fellow at US Department of Transportation, Lime (data science), Meta (product growth) Internships while at HBS: LA Cleantech Incubator (summer ’23),... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first job. “It was a clarifying View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
vehicles from Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, KeySpan, and Solectria. Speakers included Segway inventor Dean Kamen (OPM 7, 1982), state and federal officials, scientists, and entrepreneurs. “We hope to foster economically viable alternatives to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
Álvaro Rodríguez (MBA 1995) cofounded the largest venture capital firm in Mexico, which is focused on companies that serve the country’s growing middle class. He is also a recipient of the 2019 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview he talks about the critical... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets such as the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—entice and intimidate. When managers are asked what is special about emerging markets, they typically point to rapid economic growth, potential competitors, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Stephen H. Baum (MBA ’65) with Dave Conti (Crown Business) What made Jack Welch, Gordon Bethune, and Cathy Black extraordinary leaders? Based on interviews with more than two dozen CEOs and a career of serving and observing CEOs as a business adviser, Baum finds ten... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
included in a late-stage trial a component that is publicly available,” explains Blum. He notes that studies of the samples by independent researchers could help identify biomarkers for the disease’s causes and progression. Not Just Science and Business With degrees in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
worker productivity, equality of opportunity and economic mobility, even economic growth—are consequently all eroding and threatening the economic, civil, and political life of our democracy. Of course, Adam... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
more than mechanistic structures that defined work roles and regulated economic action. Mayo, Roethlisberger, and their followers saw organizations as social systems characterized by ideals, values, and, ideally, a purpose. An individual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young