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05 Aug 2015
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Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine

ship. Many of those changes centered on driving readers to an online presence that would go on to win a National Magazine Award in 2013; today, TheAtlantic.com and associated Atlantic Media sites (such as Quartz, its award-winning... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Using storytelling to transform the retail experience

Stories make sales. That’s the philosophy of Jennifer Lee Koss (AB 2001, MBA 2008), cofounder of BRIKA, an online shop for modern and elevated craft. BRIKA (from fabricá, the Spanish word for factory) enhances the appeal of its... View Details

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and underserved View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leaning in for a more equitable world

included roles as vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and as chief of staff to US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots

division and in time, had a revelation: “Seeing some of the trends in organic foods, I could see a lot of interest in the return to slow food and family farming,” he recalls. “I had a feeling the ginseng market had to turn around.” + View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Jun 2022
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Sunny Side

million fund in 2018 and recently announced a second $77 million fund. “Who we are, and where we live, helps us see opportunities where others would not,” he observes. One example is Mighty, an educational platform that enables young entrepreneurs to start View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

22 Sep 2016
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Words and Pictures

sociocultural anthropology at UNC, Chapel Hill, and founded wdydwyd? — an online meme through which 2 million people have answered the question, Why do you do what you do? Some alumni have added new reflections on their original... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2008
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Join in the Centennial

join a virtual “Conversation” with HBS faculty members about cutting-edge business topics and be able to read alumni comments online — or post your own. Or learn about the monthly “Virtual Lunch” conference call discussions led by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical device company, an apartment listings app, and an exchange for users to sell their... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1997
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Thomas C. Høegh

Internet. "My next big project," explains Høegh, "will be a multimedia collaborative outdoor spectacle that will tour the globe, with performances involving local people as well as a worldwide online audience. It will be an attempt to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Aug 2016
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Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction

“Lionrock is my revenge against addiction,” says Peter Loeb (MBA 1991), cofounder and chief executive of Lionrock Recovery, the largest online addiction recovery program in the US and Canada. “This venture is part of my healing.” A... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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The Adventures of Amy Chu

Please click here to view the online comic book. View Details

Keywords: Amy Chu; art by Anderson Cabral

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

its campus, the School acted quickly to address another critical challenge, one underscored by the murder of George Floyd and other highly publicized incidents of racial injustice in the United States: How does HBS create a culture and an environment where all members... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2016
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Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time

Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Understanding how people spend their time online is essential for any organization hoping to capture and keep consumer eyeballs—yet what we know about... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

yourself wanting to learn more and spend more time? At an early, highly personal phase like this, the best learning will be experimental, not analytical. For personal giving, do you favor a community foundation (advised giving fund) or... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

US Special Operations Command commander’s reading list. + ONLINE web-only content Gayle Tzemach Lemmon takes you behind the scenes of her books on the Skydeck podcast Return to The Year in Books 2016 View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

online alumni directory. The committee's goal is to use technology to better communicate news and information to alumni and to facilitate communication between alumni.... View Details

08 Aug 2019
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Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site

In the wake of the mass shooting in El Paso, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince (MBA 2009) announced that his web performance and security company was terminating service for the 8chan message board—an online forum where the alleged shooter... View Details

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