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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
find jobs in the nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be connected, the case asks, as it highlights comments by notable Israeli and Palestinian tech executives and entrepreneurs about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
Scaling up an audacious tough tech venture Climeworks is the brainchild of two engineer-entrepreneurs who met at school and shared a commitment to tackling climate change. The technology they built literally pulls carbon out of the air.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
Gretchen Howard (MBA 2002) came to HBS in part because she had a story in her mind about how her career would start: It was 2000, the apex of the dotcom bubble. She would move to Boston, study business, partner with a technologist from MIT, and build a transformative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
are to ‘define’ a new economy—what are the discontinuities and what are the radical advances that would build consensus about a new economy?” What are the earmarks of a “new economy?” What do you think? Original Column Whither the Information Economy? was the title of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
judging from per capita declines in both natural and unnatural deaths worldwide. While the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation remains with us, the 21st century challenges relate to such things as space exploration and the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
condense buying, wrapping, and shipping into a few short keystrokes. The limitless capacity of the Internet also enables Gap Inc. to serve customers it can't serve out of the limited space in its stores. Customers can purchase extended... View Details
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
the organization. It’s not enough for senior leadership to say that the company will be anti-racist, increase diversity, and improve inclusion and belonging. Middle management needs to be part of the solution to create safe spaces for... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
refine your goals and priorities as they change. Get to know your professors outside the classroom. They want to get to know you, and many are very well connected in the sustainability space. Spend your summer working at a company in the clean View Details
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
in the MBA program's elective curriculum. Bussgang recently published a case study on Codecademy's success to date, as well as the challenges it faces relative to future growth. He discusses that case and the startup space more broadly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Republic, eager to find more space in what the World Bank estimates to be a $1.2 trillion global credit gap for small to medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets. Success outside Nigeria, notes Kehinde, would send a powerful signal... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
came from a tech background after working in operations and product in Uber and ofo (a bike-sharing tech company) for four years. Alex decided to attend HBS to take a break from the hectic startup life and... View Details
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
funding mix. Another highlight was the closing reception on the rooftop of Berkeley’s stadium. As the sun set over San Francisco, it was great to connect with MBAs working in climate tech and sustainability and learn about their... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
the "Wonderland of Lights." Marshall's most booming industry these days, however, is based in the Baxter Building, an unassuming three-story brick office space in the center of town. Twenty-five businesses fill the space, but... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
company’s first shop – in the NY office. Sure, she said, where are the drawings? What phase of development are they in? As she stood in this blank space of a room, the founders (Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky, both HBS ‘10) explained,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy big, sell small
ApnaKlub—which leases warehouse space and trucks—sources the requested products from brand-name manufacturers and distributes them to the wholesalers, who deliver within a reliable time frame. “We leverage technology to bring our... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
exodus. Generational expectations about what makes a good job are changing, employees are fatigued from the year-long pandemic and there are labor shortages everywhere. Employees have had the time and space to think about what really... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
technology-adoption decisions, I’ve been examining how the virtual space can substitute for the physical space, by looking at tech adoption at Stack Overflow, which is like a Q&A website for coders. It’s... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
professionally accomplished and palatable enough for predominantly white spaces is still not enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
organization defining its role and finding its niche and space in the world will find it easier to communicate and achieve that super stretch goal. They start with a blank piece of paper. They do not have to re-design.” Alex Kahel... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett