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  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions

Meet four Class of 2018 students who share the career criteria that drove their internship searches, and how their respective organizations aligned with their passions. Accepting a summer internship at Nike, Ross Galloway wanted to View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
  • March 2015
  • Case

Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

By: Michael Chu, Vincent Dessain and Kristina Maslauskaite
An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Low Cost Private Schools; Investment Fund; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Transition; Investment; Development Economics; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; Education; Education Industry; Asia; Africa
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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Straddling Two Worlds

Gollust, Tierney & Oliver to explore his other interests, including travel, soccer, and teaching. When he returned to work, he stepped back from his previous duties and launched a new, smaller-scale investment business. “I'm now View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • May 2023
  • Article

Gentrification and Retail Churn: Theory and Evidence

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Erica Moszkowski
How does gentrification transform neighborhood retail amenities? This paper presents a model in which gentrification harms incumbent residents by increasing rental costs and by eliminating distinctive local stores. While rising rents can be offset with targeted... View Details
Keywords: Gentrification; Neighborhoods; Impact; Local Range; Transition; Civil Society or Community; Welfare; Economic Growth
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  • 13 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • News

Jumping In, Fighting Bias

marketing, and transitioned to an entirely new industry, accepting the role of CMO at Sequoia Capital. She made the decision after drawing on the advice of a handful of personal advisors, including Judy Zhu (MBA 2009), founder and CEO of... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 10 Apr 2025
  • Webinars: Career

Virtual Fireside Chat: Planning for a Successful Career Break and Return

Whether you're actively considering a break or simply want to be prepared for the unexpected, this conversation will provide valuable tools and strategies for navigating your career with confidence. View Details
  • 8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 01 Jun 2017
  • Career Events

Career Reboot Camp in Boston

Career Reboot Camp in Boston! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward towards a... View Details
  • 8 AM – 5 PM PDT, 31 Mar 2016

Career Reboot Camp in San Francisco

Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward towards a career with more satisfaction View Details
  • Profile

Folafolu Folowosele

A self-proclaimed “global citizen,” Fola Folowosele found the transition from Nigeria to Williams College full of surprises. “It was my first intense winter,” Fola says. “You think you’re prepared, but then you experience it. I’d run from... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort

feat to undertake and that sometimes a transition away from being a family business must take place. These ideas resonated with me and I decided to share what I learned with my family – my comments were well received, and while I’m not... View Details
  • Web

The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation | Information Technology

Culture, and Transition at lululemon Professor Michael L. Tushman, Ruth Page, Tom Ryder Terror at the Taj Professor Rohit Deshpande Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk - Making an Impact Professors Richard Ruback and Marco Di Maggio, Dave Habeeb,... View Details
  • Web

Success Academy Charter Schools | Information Technology

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon Professor Michael L. Tushman, Ruth Page, Tom Ryder Terror at the Taj Professor Rohit Deshpande Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk - Making an Impact Professors Richard Ruback and Marco Di Maggio,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Embrace the Corona-Blur

isolation of current times has made this kind of self-care even more crucial, Taylor reminds us. Jordan Taylor is the cofounder of Medley, an executive coaching program that provides small-group experience, discussion panels, forums, and workshops. Next: Take Time to... View Details
  • September 2007
  • Case

Still Leading (B4): Lee Iacocca—Driving Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce
Lee Iacocca, a successful CEO of an auto company, devoted himself after retirement to several social causes. Describes issues in the transition. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Transformation; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Civil Society or Community; Auto Industry
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Crucible: Relocation

Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson When we discussed the concept of crucibles at HBS, my best guess then—based on my dating record and polycystic ovaries—was that I might struggle with finding a life partner and with fertility. As I re-emerge from my first real... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Seeing glass in a new light

Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company sold out of product in 2013.... View Details