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01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog

with frameworks, tools, a network, and hands on experience in preparation for a career in venture capital (VC), ranging from seed to growth stage. The course will help students more deeply understand the conceptual underpinnings of venture capital investing and View Details

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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Public Entrepreneurship Course Number 1623 Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam For an audio description of this course, click here . Career Focus This course is designed for students who may found,... View Details

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Terrance McGuire

then go into the venture capital business,” he said. Part of the resistance to joining a startup was the reality of trying to build a company on a shoestring with attendant salaries that were nowhere near the compensation available... View Details

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Responding to Digital Disruption

As a follow-up to his 2017 webinar and building upon his proposed recipe for digital disruption, Associate Professor Thales Teixeira proposes a new framework to help established businesses respond to digital disruptors. View Details

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Mary Gao | MBA

HBS, participate in the Startup bootcamp, and bond with my cohort of fellows Professional goals: My goal is to surround myself with smart people, be very good at what I do, and move the needle on projects that matter. Github: Mary Gao... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Flying High

idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation

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Adam Kanner

laptops. Savvy entrepreneurs often find opportunity where others find flaws. For Adam Kanner, a former vice president for marketing and business development for the National Basketball Association, the empty seats triggered a startup... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs to strip away the differences between startups that grow into multibillion-dollar enterprises and those that disappear altogether. Here, Yeh talks about the techniques outlined in their new book,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Eshan Tewari | MBA

Eshan Tewari Statistics Dunster 2021 Cohort 2 I've had a chance to work in technology from a host of different angles, spanning from ground level research to rapidly scaling startups to venture capital to journalism. In the process, I've... View Details

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Dhilan Ramaprasad | MBA

had an opportunity to see a full picture of how an IoT startup went from conception and ideation to refinement and next generation rollouts by identifying and then cultivating their own niche consumer market. The forethought, insight, and... View Details

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Rhea Acharya | MBA

Interaction, Sustainability, Privacy, Security & Trust Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: The summer before my junior year, I joined the team of 7 at J.P. Morgan's new sustainable investing growth fund, focused on View Details

24 Sep 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers

10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor. The digital healthcare startup “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey,” explains Jarzabek. Through his mother’s treatment, he saw... View Details

12 Feb 2019
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A View of the Valley

spends a lot of time managing male expectations at work and at home (with both her dad and her husband, an aspiring startup founder who was the ninth engineer at Google and has never gotten over leaving too early). Fred, the son, seems... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jun 2017
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Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO

headquarters—a move spurred in part by the CEO’s professed desire to shake up the corporate mindset: Immelt, 61, also wanted a big culture shift. He asked employees to think more like they work for a startup and less like they work for a... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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@Soldiers Field

Polaroid in the 1930s and ’40s, when the iconic company was a risky startup led by an untested entrepreneur. A “Hack Your Sleep” event offered insights into the science of slumber—a subject unfamiliar to many MBA students. Cosponsored by... View Details