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- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Yahoo, the challenge is to catalyze growth at an Internet company with tremendous assets. I’m learning every day how to inspire people to challenge conventional wisdom, use data to drive decisions, and tackle roadblocks proactively. I’ve learned to View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
benefits from regulatory and enforcement agencies if something goes amiss. For example, showing that a firm took pains to educate employees on legal regulations can potentially reduce fines by up to 95 percent. Ideally, the code of ethics... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
It's easy to run a company in an up market. OK, sort of easy. But a down market is something else again, and what a roller-coaster year the past year was, said six entrepreneurs in a panel discussion at the 2002 Dynamic Women in Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS Midwest Tour
Beijing, we also host gatherings at cities across the US. This summer Admissions Board member Kelly Quinn returned to her roots to help spread the word about HBS in the Midwest. 1. What was your favorite part of the trip/city? Returning to my roots in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
America were buzzing about Clocky, a clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping when its alarm went off. At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
he formed last summer, ClickRebates.com, which in January rolled out its first product, ClickDough. The friendly, easygoing Yeh describes ClickDough as an "infomediary." He explains: "People sign up with us... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
research, she spoke with various Entrepreneurs in Residence at the iLab. One of them, a venture capital investor, helped her get a handle on her ambitions by asking her a key question: “What are you most passionate about? When you wake up... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement
I step into the next chapter of my career. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and work toward a future where healthcare is not a privilege, but a right—for everyone, everywhere. To the Harvard Health Care... View Details
- Profile
Joe Stenger
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? The U.S. Air Force requires pilots to stay on active duty for 10 years after training, so I ended up serving for 13 years. I’m already the oldest student in the MBA program and,... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Art of Naming a Start-up
as an afterthought, caught our eye: “sonation.” Even before we looked up the definition, it sounded right. Its meaning made it even better. Sonation is the sound produced by birds not through their voice, but from other structures like... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
views, respecting their opinions, and acting on their needs and their wishes to the extent that it's possible. And the fifth category was a grab bag of things. But the most important aspect here was collaborating—that the team leader View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
built his business up that way, and he prospered. But everything came abruptly to an end in China during World War II. We could very easily have just faded to oblivion as a company, but my father took over, moved the company to Hong Kong,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
Seven months later, I find myself living in San Francisco and riding to work in the back of a self-driving car. The Internship Search My internship search consisted of blindly trusting the advice that “the coolest internship postings pop View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
For the last decade or so financial institutions have relied increasingly and excessively on short-term financing, risky business that could quickly go south when a souring economy made it impossible for firms to roll over their... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
revenue and growth, and every division’s key performance indicators on diversity roll up to the company’s balanced scorecard. Everyone gets paid out if the company meets its diversity goals. So if the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix it, the city View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid. But I found that one of the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
says he loved the idea of boosting domestic energy production while recycling existing sources of CO2, because he had come to HBS looking to merge his interests in business, energy, and the environment. The son of a commercial fisherman, Dawe grew View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
economies, and accounting/control. Thanks to the support of our colleagues in Executive Education, this five-module program will be rolled out in New York City starting in January. The reunions subcommittee was chaired by Janet Clarke... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
researchers say. “The private equity firms have truly had to roll up their sleeves and become very, very active in their portfolio companies,” Gompers says. “And there's only so much time to spend in a given... View Details