Design Of Core - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

24 Mar 2017
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Personalizing the Path to Professional Success for Women

Many women hit a point in their career unsure which path to take or even how to move ahead. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) has designed what she calls the ideal “playbook” with Landit, a technology startup that offers a personalized career... View Details

01 May 2013
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Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997

Seeing obstacles women face, particularly in Middle Eastern countries, is what drove Isik Kececi Asur and her husband, Mustafa, to endow an MBA fellowship designated for female entrepreneurs from Turkey and Lebanon. “Supporting women to... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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HBS Students Mentor Kids

Boston. Manville is designed for kids from ages 5 to 15 who struggle in traditional educational settings due to emotional or physical issues. A key element of the school’s approach is the big sister/big... View Details

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

15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit

Heffernan: From one who's tried on many hats, a tip of the cap to HBS. Photo courtesy Andrew Heffernan As a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) worked in a variety of summer jobs with... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2012
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Start It Up

MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007)... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

11 May 2011
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In a Good Place

of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

Illustrations by Greg Clarke Recent alumni may not believe it, but there was a time when it was the Written Word — more so than cold calls or attacks of classroom amnesia — that struck fear in the hearts of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2000
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Capturing Human Capital

corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do... View Details

07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future

University. That was as far as the idea went, until recently. Partnering with an MIT expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle), View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Orientation Teamwork

FIRE AWAY: Each Learning Team built a catapult that was intended egg at a target 25 feet away without breaking the payload. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL It may have looked like all fun and games, but the MBA Class of 2008 orientation in late... View Details

Keywords: orientation; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Sep 2016
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Gaining Ground on ALS

Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS.... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Making Big Data Fashionable

When it comes to marketing next season’s trends, the brightest fashion brains rely on more than just last year’s numbers. They also tap into their own innate, if unscientific, intuition—what Trendalytics’ Karen Moon (MBA 2008) calls “the art View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

designed not just to maintain the School's position as the premier institution for business education in the world, but also to broaden the outlook of the leaders it trains and, as an intended consequence,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

physics. Learned how to design chips. And I came out to Silicon Valley as it was forming in the mid '80s. And I think because I was in the right place at the right time, it put me on a series of foundational... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students

leveraging HBS's strength in this area by launching a series of programs designed to connect professors to practice. The group has since sponsored workshops on the case method, interactive learning, and... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

Rosabeth, you mentioned the structure and design of the organization as possibly contributing to the current problems. What improvements can be made? Kanter: We need more external information — both... View Details