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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
little bit deeper, you understand that some of those students are paying for their sibling to go to college or helping their parents pay the rent.” Fellowships: A Tradition of Philanthropy To get a better view of students’ situations, in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
compared to those of their single counterparts. For this month, we have decided to dive deeper into the perspective of those students. A large part of the business school experience is building connections and forming lifelong... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
stores in the fall of 2021 and through an ecommerce channel in early 2022. The switch has better aligned the company with the wave of interest in sports tech and connected health, Cass notes, and distanced it from the more saturated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
her comfort zone, going straight from her Political Science undergraduate degree to Wall Street. When she accepted the Foreign Exchange Sales Analyst role at Bank of America, Gomih’s friends and family were a bit perplexed, but as Gomih... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
starting to learn to talk, walk, read. Then you're going to high school. And you're probably starting college, and then, you're starting to work. So the starting quarter. And that's somewhere I would say if you want to use age ranges between 0 and 30. It gets extended... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
business & environment opportunities and risks. BEI helps to connect current MBAs with these alumni for learning and careers. We recently spoke with one such alum about his career journey. For the first part of his career, George... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
bit more comfort with taking the risk of working for a company which most (at the time) thought was destined for failure. Lindsay: 2+2 really gives students more freedom and flexibility to follow a non-traditional path. Many 2+2ers have... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
ready for prime time when it came to the retail shopping experience. Most people were still on dial-up Internet connections and interminable waits to finish a transaction created a significant barrier. Beck was undaunted. “I... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
their parents owned a business when they were growing up. So we can see that there's an influencing mechanism at play here, and that there's a substitute for it as well." Follow The Money The distinctions are a bit more subtle when... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
arrive at the hotel’s Habana Vieja (“Old Havana”) location to ensure that guests of the high-end hotel can enjoy the luxury of a morning shower. The Kempinski, says Benedetti, is not connected to the city’s water system—unable to rely on... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
time periods to offer a comparative perspective. “I think we’ve discovered a bit of a niche here,” she says, noting that there could even be parallels to discover in the experiences of present-day refugees. “It would be great to expand... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
created in a moment of conversation and connection that wasn’t about ease, speed, and convenience. What are the big questions for legacy retailers trying to find a way forward in this new space? AM: How to remain relevant. Most retailers... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
panel discussions, and industry networking, to help participants navigate the board selection process. “Women on Boards was the only course I found that addressed and connected all the components in a holistic way.” Martinez was one of 67... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
evokes values in a way that connects a person’s day-to-day work to the values or the purpose of the organization. And you say that this is a fundamental task of leadership in a deep purpose company. What is this transformation like for... View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
each year in personal and corporate taxes (excluding social security and Medicare taxes) is only a bit over $1 trillion. Spending must be cut. The recent report of The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform suggested a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
big. For example, when Maples was first getting started, ventures like Twitter and Digg fit into his “primary hypotheses” related to the transformation of the Internet, “from an Internet of pages to the Internet as a platform for View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
that is not a profession? Phil Clark's comment characterizes the first line of thought. As he put it, an "elite B-school degree is seen as a ticket to connections to 'take care of (oneself),' not necessarily to provide value to any... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett