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28 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

She advises banks that “Students want more networking events as opposed to formal presentations. They like the interpersonal connections they can form in the 1:1 or small group interactions.” Specifically when recruiters can connect... View Details

14 May 2014
News

(Re)moving the Needle

early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

what an “ideal VC” is. When I first told my team I was applying to business school, the immediate response I received was a bewildered “What! Why?” “What! Why?” indeed. I was at a fast-growing tech company with an amazing culture,... View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

research-based course. Our objective is to provide students with perspectives and insight into the eighth largest economy in the world. Although it is dominated by SMEs (companies with annual revenues of below 50m make up 82% of the employed population, and account for... View Details

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

industrial commons, which represents the collective capability to sustain innovation. Pisano: Is there a future? Yes. It’s not too late. There’s still a manufacturing base in the United States, and it’s quite large even though it’s a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

been winning the competition repeatedly. As Working Knowledge reader John Sandvik put it: “A scale tipped to either side is not ideal the balance already is far in favor of the largest businesses, and some of the changes they have managed to make to our laws are the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

leverage non-market, non-pecuniary resources,” Wu says. For example, a startup can benefit more from advice and mentorship from a successful person in their industry, or in-kind donations of legal or financial services, than they can from a mere infusion of cash. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

18 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

be a trailing spouse for two years. Settling in, I was so irritated by not doing much." At a social event, she met a Yahoo! executive managing an Arabic portal the company had recently purchased in the region. Amira came on board... View Details

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

the survey at alumni.hbs.edu/skydecksurvey. Beyond the survey, if you ever want to drop us a note, you can find us at skydeck@hbs.edu. We’d love to hear from you. Ok, now for today’s show. Cloudflare is a web performance and security View Details

26 Aug 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and later as director of investment banking at Guzman & Company, was more concerned about... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

standalone products or services, but between platforms. Many of the most successful companies are those who build multisided platforms (MSPs), which spawn large ecosystems of users and suppliers of complementary products and services. Why... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Dan Fenn

Approaching Sound of Change"; and "The Myth of the Successful Businessman." As I thought about this piece, I recalled the many lively stories of interesting alumni: the publisher of the Old Farmer's Almanac; the uranium prospector turned stockbroker; the entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: Dan Fenn

15 Dec 2015
News

Lovepop Woos The Sharks

our whole team was going to be focused on making sure the website was up and fielding customer service calls. We were all hands on deck—we even had a whole bunch of extra people come on to help us out. We just set up a whole response center in our office, and we... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Ink

This is one of her later ones in the Gamache series, but a good read whether or not one has read earlier ones.” —Don Licking (MBA 1962), on Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny Quoted “We live in a world where foresight is increasingly critical. Too many View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

a small one. See hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7271.html. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World by Joseph L. Badaracco (Harvard Business Review Press) Leading responsibly is crucial in today's uncertain world. Badaracco,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved ex ante allocative efficiency across the entire firm-size distribution. However, the US deregulations also led to a dramatic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field that took in $25 million in revenue in 2005. Revenues for 2006 were projected to reach $40 million. This... View Details