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25 Mar 2016
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Curtis Keith, Harvard University, Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Bobby Tuohy

the VC side of the startup world. “I’m surprised by how much I’ve learned here,” Bobby says of HBS. “There’s a large volume of challenging work. But the MS/MBA cohort is like my second family; they are the single most impressive, genuine,... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

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Kristen's Cookie Company (A)

The student is starting his or her own business, baking make-to-order cookies. Basic times of each operation are laid out and the student is asked to determine the consequences for the operating system. Serves as an exercise and review of concepts such as capacity,... View Details

Keywords: Production; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry

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24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture The Twofold Effect of Customer Retention in Freemium Settings Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

Whitehead Society. Entrepreneurs Promise Startup founders, builders, and investors who promise to support the School in the future have opportunities to deepen their connections to HBS’s growing entrepreneurship ecosystem. Global Leaders... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Track (for ventures that drive social change using nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid models). ( deadlines in December and February ) President’s Innovation Challenge : The President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) is the Harvard Innovation Labs’ annual View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or launching startups and launching... View Details

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

how startups are different,” she says, recalling a slide Lassiter used of a Central American reptile known as the Jesus lizard—so called because it skims the surface of a pond so quickly that it looks like it’s walking on water. “I still... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

being a force for good and in the ability of a for-profit social enterprise to lay a sustainable foundation for our partners in Afghanistan to connect with people around the world.” “What better way to use our HBS education than for sustainable agriculture and business... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries, sectors, and continents. An Engine of... View Details

October 2020
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Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner

In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state

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01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

change, the authors provide a quick and entertaining introduction to the science of climate change. It is a concise primer for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate. Even knowledgeable readers will learn something new about climate change. The View Details

Keywords: podcasts

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

and NASA. Iansiti says in the following interview that the book provides a guide for all businesses—from startups to long-standing legacy companies—for thriving in the new digital rat race. Dina Gerdeman: Explain what you mean when you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an inexperienced founding team. Alas, the... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and artistic significance. At the... View Details

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

were Rock Venture Partners. A colleague at Google had even explored a startup idea at the i-Lab. The more I investigated the resources at HBS, the more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me. I also saw my time at HBS as an... View Details

21 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

rounds from tier-1 VCs (some already exited!) or work at leading startups and tech companies. This powerful group of people found their community within The Harvard Builders Club. We were thrilled to have our inaugural Builders retreat in... View Details

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