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- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
need to ask of themselves and the companies they are targeting, and why they need to think of themselves as hunters. READ MORE DM: I want to talk about this book, The Startup Lottery. Throughout it, you apply this analogy of the theater.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View
company or a small company,” he says, “you’d always run into this obstacle of scaling talent.” It seems like an obvious need, Mirza acknowledges. “But it’s usually an afterthought. There was no planning for it, no tools for it.” Mirza is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
circular system is a lofty ambition, and for all its efforts and public commitments, the industry is criticized for not doing more. But a host of emergent technologies, like cloud computing and AI, are unlocking new circular business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Global Ambition
network to donate 10,000 pieces of personal protective equipment from China to the United States. Chew, who is particularly drawn to the tech sector, joined Xiaomi in 2015, a Chinese technology company that he helped take View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
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A Lonely Crusader
2002, Ackman shorted MBIA’s stock and bought credit default swaps betting that the firm would tank. Then he went public with his bets and a 66-page research report detailing his case. What happened next would have broken a man possessing... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
tough. It was tough. Julia Hanna: When he graduated from HBS in 1970, Gerry Schwartz (MBA 1970) passed up the offers he got to work on Wall Street to join a land development company in Florida. It seemed like a quick, sure path to... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
the world as it is, not the world as we wish it were. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle with these technologies. There’s a multilateral hunger for the United States to take a leadership role in establishing and enforcing norms to mitigate risk, whether they’re... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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A Taste of Tradition
Kikkoman Corporation, whose roots stretch back to the seventeenth century, when the Mogi family began soy sauce production in Japan. The company was incorporated in 1917 as Noda Shoyu Co., Ltd., went public... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 23 Jan 2024
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A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
solid waste is managed in the Big Apple. “I think you have with her a very creative and innovative public servant,” says Steven A. Cohen, an authority on waste management in New York City who is the former director of the Research Program... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in 2019. Egyptian digital payments... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
add up. To Young, that speaks to a broader need for government intervention in situations where intentionally discriminatory policies have caused real estate markets to fail. “Government has to play where the market doesn’t,” contends Young, who argues that the View Details