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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
service to others. In the intensely competitive world I live in now, that’s good grounding to have.” Why VC is so much fun: “The entrepreneurial energy is irresistible. Working with startups, and investing in smart people with boundless... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
“Here’s a smart guy who had an actual home inspection, so why didn’t he have visibility that these systems were about to fail on him?” It’s standard practice in commercial transactions, and there also are capital reserve requirements for... 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 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
opportunities. Startup life is exciting, but full of uncertainty. You need the best information possible to make smart choices. The Startup Lottery is for anyone who wants to maximize their likelihood of success. View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 16 Jun 2023
- News
On the Move: Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016)
I actually had a trip to the Middle East during my first week on the job. Much of the prep was simply getting smart on the stakeholders and learning the nuances of the sport, as I was previously in basketball and hockey. What’s exciting... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
smart enough to let him do that experimentation. Eight years elapsed before that became a commercial product. It’s amazing that Nestle, that had two big existing franchises in coffee—instant and stove top—was willing to risk those... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
the schoolyard.) He traces his disciplined approach to the financial world and some of his financial smarts as a hedge fund guru back to chess. And he’s quite certain it was chess that brought his grades from a D average in high school to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in smart contracts helps businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
recent totaling $36 million. "We identify people who are smart and passionate. We invest in them and provide strategic and tactical support to ensure their success." Helping others do their best work, in fact, is what drives Joanna... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
generally. There are potentially even greater savings to be realized in improving building efficiency, he notes, through energy audits, retrofits, and smart building software (the DOE estimates energy waste in the average US commercial... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
philanthropically supported newsrooms to really get an understanding of their audience, to really hone their product, to find the product-market fit. Philanthropy doesn’t necessarily know how to drive for those outcomes, either. If you have a View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
annual SXSW Pitch Event in the Enterprise and Smart Data category. “Inventory in commerce is a really big problem from both an environmental and a financial perspective,” Theuerkauf notes. The problem is especially acute in the fashion... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
While there is a lot to be said for being lucky rather than being smart, I’ve learned that being smart means putting yourself in the path of luck at the right time. Investing and life are a lot like surfing that way: One mostly needs to... View Details