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04 Nov 2019
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A Home for Startups

providing and supporting the collaborative work environments so that all the member companies can thrive and realize their visions and missions. The idea is that, when people with different backgrounds and different ideas come together, the View Details

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

to have more strength and energy than most people, and could work longer on more problems at once. She somehow could keep her charm and cheerfulness in crises when there was a deadline to meet. The magic produced in her laboratory often... View Details

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Natasha Pereira-Kamath

months and months became years, the magic of perpetual power faded. My perspective changed; a switch flipped. Whenever I return to visit my grandparents, blackouts are no longer an adventure but an annoyance, and worse, a danger to the... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Taking up the issue of climate change

As chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is in the business of creating magical worlds that captivate audiences. He also is passionate about the real-world issue of climate change and its impact on future generations.... View Details

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Oded Navon

always gives me something to strive for. What’s the best thing about your home town? The High Holidays are a magical time in Israel. Specifically, on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, the entire country, which is normally in a big hustle,... View Details

08 Nov 2016
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Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

building. The challenges inherent in entrepreneurship get me up in the morning, and spike my adrenaline when those magical moments of achievement happen. So, I definitely want to be involved with building and selling products. My pre-HBS... View Details

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The Experience | Information Technology

time. Participants see the classroom like never before. They can dig into conversations with instructors and one another. They can focus on rich multimedia presentations. They can debate, discuss, participate, and feel the magic of the... View Details

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Roniesha Copeland

legend, Magic Johnson. “He talked about his urban development enterprise,” Roniesha says. “He partnered with businesses that put storefronts in neighborhoods they previously didn’t think would be profitable. His talk gave me a window into... View Details

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Valerie Bockstette

I plan to build trampolines. Remember jumping on one as a kid - the more you jumped, the more support you got - and like magic - you rose higher and higher, as though you could bounce forever? I grew up on such a trampoline. No, my family... View Details

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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

photographers and advertisers "aimed to animate the inanimate commodity with the appearance of life and sometimes explicitly with magical powers." 21 As advertisers and photographers attempted to transform everyday objects into the... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

my daughter’s opinion. I call her up, and she can see through my eyes what I’m seeing,” says Ross. “The uses are endless. It’s really as creative as you are. Where Glass becomes magical is when you get to see things in a new way.” But... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology

01 Dec 1997
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Peter Wendell (MBA '76)

infrastructure of capital and advisory talent. "You have this magic chemist's brew of people, ideas, capital, and hard work that you stir in a beaker and presto," he says, gesturing toward the consolidation of firms that surround Sierra's... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

delivered directly to your car? Frist and classmate Nick Alexander (MBA 2015) began to explore an answer to that while they were still at HBS, spending one cold afternoon observing hurried customer interactions at a gas station in Cambridge. “Getting gas was far from a... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

01 Dec 2018
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Ready, Set, Launch

magical event—a solution that matches the problem,” Eisenmann says. “And after you have that solution, you can step on the gas pedal.” Return to Tomorrow, Transformed View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Action Plan: Horse Sense

but still, the lower the odds, the better chance you have of being successful.” But go with your gut. “You don’t need to be an expert to look at a horse. That’s really the magic of our business—there are people who have luck when they... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; horse racing

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Executive Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “The magic of image making is that the spectacularly thin layers — almost merely layers of concepts — evoke in... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life

stakeholders may or may not find ‘good enough’ in the short term but that pay off for everyone eventually. Decision-making at deep-purpose companies becomes an exercise in ‘practical idealism,’ a discipline of honest and often messy problem-solving. Rather than... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Smriti Jayaraman

Thirty years ago, my dad spent long nights watching Star Trek marathons, mesmerized by the teleportation and video-messaging magic the 1960s sci-fi series was known for. Perhaps it was this relentless fascination with technology that led... View Details

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Kam Phillips-Sadler

magic about the classroom experience I’d never experienced before. Only HBS had the combination of dynamically engaging class settings, world renowned professors and course materials, and a feeling of invincibility that would come on the... View Details

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