Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

policymakers avoid a repeat of that painful episode. Greenwood, Hanson, and colleagues have identified the signs that potentially signal trouble. Three years of rapid growth in credit and asset prices increased the odds of a crisis to 40... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

31 May 2018
Blog Post

Yes, Introverts CAN Network Successfully: A Brief How-To for People Who "Hate" Networking

introverts," Shepherd acknowledges. But they can take comfort knowing that, in most cases, they won't actually reach their contact, but an assistant or a voicemail. "Either way, leave a message. View Details

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Pravin Kumar Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results How GNE Will Help my Organization Reach its Full View Details

02 Jan 2018
News

Bringing Teachers to All of America

education system that's very unequal across the United States. I you're born into a low-income household or you're born into poverty, it is dramatically harder for you to reach your full View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Bounce Back

B2B companies can take advantage of this opportunity by inserting ads that are relevant to their subscribers or potential customers. Is email better for reaching certain demographics? Our recent survey found... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club

my internship at Chelsea Football Club on May 23rd, while I was on the HBS Japan trek, just a week before my start date. Set a goal for yourself, develop a detailed plan to achieve it, execute it diligently, and always believe in your... View Details

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

& Asset Stewardship team where she spent summer 2020 as an intern and Prime Coalition, a catalytic climate VC where she interned for six months during EC year. “It’s a lot of work reaching out to your... View Details

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

of study at the business school and why HBS has a potentially critical role in how the world addresses poverty. Q: How has microfinance influenced your approach? A: Turning interventions into commercially... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

virtual work can be and remote internship and full-time options broaden the pool of potential candidates. Your HBS Recruiting team, including Recruiting Relations Manager, Katja Frey, and Corporate Relations... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting

align with their skills and interests. These self-driven efforts often lead to meaningful, high-impact internships that wouldn’t exist through traditional recruiting channels. If your organization is contacted by an HBS student with a... View Details

29 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches

reaching out to those in your current network by email to check in with them, requesting email introductions to new connections, and sending emails or LinkedIn messages to individuals you admire and want to... View Details

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

asks. “To me, that's where business comes in. If you want to create a meaningful impact with your ideas, you have to be able to devise a system that can allow your product or service to View Details

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

capital firms will need to deploy near-record amounts of capital, the due diligence process will take significantly more time, Gompers says. Potentially less favorable terms. As the pandemic grinds on and funding becomes View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a venture View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

trying to solve. If your way of thinking about potential customers doesn’t uncover information about who buys and why in each segment, all you have is a power point, not an actionable basis for product,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

said. The potential influence on drug development in particular, and medicine in general, is enormous, panelists agreed. Today's drugs can reach some 400 to 500 potential... View Details