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- 06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Reinventing the Future of Business
in July, launched the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). The Institute provides HBS and other schools at Harvard with a powerful foundation for accelerating research on big, multidisciplinary problems in business and society. Its success will be... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
make the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. “There is a relationship between long-term thinking, social purpose, and success,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
and motivating others. She recruited her brothers to tutor students, her Princeton alumni club to paint classrooms, her investment banker friends to help write a budget, and members of the community to organize fundraisers. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
glass, paper, and metal for recycling, as she points out; one day textiles will be just another stream. In the meantime, Looper is investing in tech to innovate its collection and near-infrared sorting processes to improve outcomes,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z
we focused on promoting technology that will be used for the good of society?” Chen says. And they are not willing to wait to have a say in that process: “They want to do meaningful work and see impact sooner. They don’t want to just be a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap
partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at Georgetown. Murday saw the potential... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fueling the Faculty Pipeline
“brought finance to life for me,” he says. In addition to being an excellent teacher, Glauber introduced Melwani in 1985 to Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972), cofounder of Blackstone, the firm Melwani joined in 2003 and where he is now senior managing director, global chief... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Frightening. Frightening if you own them - and just as frightening if you don't. I think most people feel that it's awfully tough not to make an investment in this area. My hat's off to the Warren Buffetts of the world, who have the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
read with comprehension. If you play out the next 30 years, something really significant needs to change for the whole world not to be hugely impacted by the lack of resources in this region. You need to find solutions that can work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
History and Ourselves 2008 Selected lead editor of Graham and Dodd's classic Security Analysis, 6th edition Seth Klarman wrote the book on value investing. Literally. His 1991 Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect
didn’t realize that we had shared professional interests,” Model recalls, laughing. “It was just a social thing.” Only after graduation would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model, who had a background in investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2005
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Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
contribute to the continued success of the School.” A member of the Campaign Advisory Committee, Thomas Frist Jr. and his wife, Trish, served on the Board of Dean’s Advisors from 1997 to 2003. The Frists’ sons, Tommy and Billy, work at Frist Capital, LLC, a private... View Details