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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
available for these projects. JH: Naina Lal Kidwai continues to do her work at the intersection of business, government, and the environment, serving on numerous boards in addition to continuing in her role as chair View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
very, very long string of mainly zeros and very few ones—and the ones have meaning. “If you look at the words ‘fir’ and ‘fire’ in ASCII text, you’d say they have a lot in common because their letters are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
not hesitant to use the words discriminated against. When only 2.3 percent of venture-backed founders are women, when only 1.5 percent are LatinX, when only 1 percent are Black founders—clearly there’s... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
hope for was to survive the year. “I’m not a math kid,” she told herself at the time. “And that’s fine.” But then a surprisingly good grade on a test prompted a word of encouragement from her teacher. “He... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
understanding of the mission of Harvard Business School" - to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. What makes that mission special, considering that other business schools make similar... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
RACI (pronounced “racy”). Each letter stands for how someone relates to a project: responsible for doing the work, accountable for the success of the work, needs to be consulted on the work, and needs to be informed on the status View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
aren’t going to confuse a Ford Explorer with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, for example, so it’s not necessary (or possible) to own one name across all classes. “On the other hand, if you see lots of use of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Photos by Chris Taggart Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Russian TV in which he addressed some 90 million bemused viewers in his version of their native tongue. Notes Tobias, "Sure, it meant I had to pronounce words like pryedopryzhdyeniye> while reading from a... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
diverse talent to business school, we must demonstrate in both deed and word that business on a wide scale is a powerful change agent and that the avenue to being part of that change is through a business... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
linkages between behavior and its consequences, words and actions, prescriptions and reality.” How do we restore those linkages? Are shareholders, particularly large institutional shareholders, in a position to do so through, for example,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Concluding a successful tenure at Mazda, Mark Fields was appointed on April 19 to head the Premier group, a London-based unit of Ford Motor Company, which controls Mazda. The Premier group, a $23 billion company, includes brands such as... View Details
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
is where I want to spend my career. I’m lucky to have found my passion so early and I’m even luckier that HBS has provided me with the technical skills, networking skills, and the resources to propel my career and hopefully be successful in creating more sustainable... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
promote, in word and deed, the salutary effects of entrepreneurship. In keeping with that objective, in October 1945, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the first HBS-based professor to be named a University... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
complicated: the use of many words per sentence that featured a high percentage of complex, multisyllabic words, requiring a higher level of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
Summing Up Do not read too much into a possible relationship between the development of information technology and the incidence of "upside-down" management. That's the overwhelming message from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
happening inside the mind of someone with an eating disorder is that person thinks I've lost control. That person thinks I'm fat. And everything is filtered through a lens of, I'm not good enough. There aren't a lot View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
Downtime: “The mountain biking in Park City, Utah, is phenomenal. I also love to golf and play tennis. Doing any of those makes me happy.” In the zone: “A common mental prep technique I’ve used is repeating three View Details