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- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Frida Polli (MBA 2012) is the CEO and cofounder of pymetrics, which uses neuroscience-based games to help match people to their perfect careers. In this episode, she talks... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
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Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Red Lobster Dan Morrell: Kim Lopdrup (MBA 1984) is a turnaround expert. Early in his career, he helped revive Dunkin Donuts’ American coffee business and then... View Details
- 24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In mid-June, weeks after protests against racial injustice spread globally, the Leadership Now Project—founded in 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy—released the... View Details
- 05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
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Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Reverend Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009) got a call that the NFL’s Chicago Bears were looking for a part-time chaplain. He was brought in to address a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
things like, ‘If you have a criminal record, you are welcome to apply for a job at Code for America.’ And we do advocacy, too, and help other organizations understand that they shouldn’t be ruling out applicants just because they have a criminal record. These are... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
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The Story Behind the Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV producer in DC before coming to... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
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Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think it's okay to want to dent the universe, but I think it's best if you're an entrepreneur to think about something that's in the present that needs to be solved right... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Anada Lakra (MBA 2021) left her native Albania to attend Yale, she had studied English for a decade and felt pretty confident in... View Details
- 04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terry Finley turns race horses into investment opportunities. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York, Finley buys promising colts... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her... View Details
- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details