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24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

with engineers, to beta testing, to launching for customers, all in 10 weeks. And I found exactly that during my summer at InsightSquared. Who was crazy enough to hire me? Sam Clemens, the Chief Product Officer there, and a HBS alum. How... View Details

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

roadmap. Engineers and product managers love it when they’re “left alone.” Take the time to do deeper customer discovery and requirements gathering. Customers might be more open to participating in beta tests, new feature rollouts, focus... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

differentiated brands deliver a competitive advantage, and learn how to build and manage their brand to stay ahead. Design Thinking and Innovation Could you tell me a little more about the AI Course Assistant chat bot? You can think of the View Details

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Harvard Business School

global chair and CEO of CNBC Television and CNBC.com, was a group president at Liz Claiborne, Inc., and served as a member of the Executive Board at Credit Suisse. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business... View Details

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Alphas

How do I find current and historical alphas? For historical alpha see, O'Neil Database Ref. HG4916 .O45 in the Stamps Reading Room. Historical quarterly data on alphas. Baker has the last quarter annually from 1983 to 2011. To find a security's alpha, in... View Details

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Datastream | Baker Library

Equities, Economics and Futures data. Use the LSEG link within WRDS to access these datasets. Learn More Delisted securities: prices Bonds: data Financial databases: certification and training Alphas and Betas Still need help? Our expert... View Details

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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

Care (Q1) . This course enables you to fund your seed round, obtain non-dilutive funding, and/or enter in formal beta site commitments with highly likely customers. In 2025, teams obtained $5 million in seed funding and won the HBS Shark... View Details

06 Sep 2016
News

Connecting Past and Present

Family health was the impetus for Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958), founder of one of the world’s largest genealogy resources. “My family carries the beta thalassemia genetic trait,” a blood disorder. When my nephew was diagnosed, and we then... View Details

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Eligibility & Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Project Grant program is intended to support expenses related to the research and analysis component of Independent Projects. The program does not support business start-up expenses such as: beta program development, organization... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

around value pricing versus current competitor pricing models. Use some of your large beta customers to tell your story. Those customers willing to invest time in a beta often want to be seen as innovative... View Details

Rudina Seseri

community involvement. Rudina has been published in TechCrunch, Forbes, Quartz, VentureBeat, GigaOm, and other leading business publications. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Economics and International Relations and holds an MBA from... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

25 Aug 2014
Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

enterprise-focused and still in beta mode, but Ushahidi’s greater mission of technology for development—“tech4dev”—is worth writing more about. The company uses cloud-based technologies—your smartphone, your computer, and even SMS, to... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Oct 2002
News

Pearson Hunt Remembered

Hunt was born in 1908 and raised on Staten Island, New York. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1930, completed the first year at Columbia Law School, and then studied economics for a term at King's... View Details

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2016
News

Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers

simply have the best products. Today’s young entrepreneurs realize that success requires customer connection right at the outset.” In the course’s beta version rollout, Cespedes, Roberge, and Eisenmann carefully tracked students’ learning... View Details

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Shana Hoffman

and through the Rock Accelerator Award, the company won a $5,000 grant to test its beta model with potential users. By being part of HBS, Shana has had access to Harvard Medical School, where gerontologists have helped her incorporate... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Faculty News

books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of... View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

remote-controlled quadcopter,” hitting 163.5 mph. September 2017 DRL High Voltage, a drone pilot simulator, graduates from beta testing. The video game hones skills in preparation for flying an actual drone. DRL drones cost between $500... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1999
News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

president of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Japan, based in Tokyo. Porté serves as a trustee of the American School in Japan and of Camp Rising Sun, an international leadership camp. A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard... View Details

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