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- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
your MBA skillset prepared you to be successful in this role? The HBS MBA program has given me essential tools to tackle complex and broad problems. It taught me how to deconstruct large problems into manageable components and how to think outside the box to come View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no longer exists as required... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
throughout the year on four specific areas, and I'd like to summarize each committee's work. Communications Under the leadership of John Hoffmann (MBA '64), this group focused on segmentation, design and content, and delivery. The... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
Photos courtesy of Minal Mehta When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
remember, I actually worked in startups for almost 10 years before moving to bigger company roles. So longer term, I’d love to bridge back to the startup world by investing in and joining the boards of early-stage companies in the VR and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016)—talk careers, HBS, and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Meghana Dhar (MBA 2016) Shiv Gaglani (MBA 2016) Guram: “Clearly it means that I should continue my strategy of procrastinating right up to a deadline; I turn 30 in May. But on a serious note, to me it means that people believe that the... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Where did you go after you graduated from HBS? “I spent three and a half years working at Google on mobile advertising and have been at Yahoo, also working on mobile monetization, since October 2013.” What are the most important things... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
When did you and your cofounder come up with the idea for Bubble (Bubble is a visual programming tool that empowers anyone to build software, apps, and websites without writing any code)? Josh Haas, my cofounder, came View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
HERMAND-WAICHE What's the story behind Adore Me? "I had always wanted to start a company in the United States and after three years at McKinsey & Company, and following my graduation from HBS, I felt ready to take the plunge. Prior to... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
and ranked. In February 2018, tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, purchased a majority stake in BestReviews.com. What inspired you to launch BestReviews.com? Ben:“We both grew up reading Consumer Reports regularly and... View Details
- 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 View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
investment banking to become a seventh-grade math teacher at Harlem West Middle School, teaching for three years before taking positions in school leadership at Success Academy Midtown West and Harlem Central Middle School. The experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
new and see those early wins that come along with gaining initial traction for a concept you believe in. The challenges are that, because SAMPLEit is a startup, things don't always go up and to the right. Occasionally, there are setbacks,... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
module that requires student teams to design and launch a microbusiness. Biederman and several sectionmates came up with HourlyNerd, a platform that dynamically links talented business professionals with companies that need ad hoc... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
me, this meant not doing as much extracurricular activities as many other students—and being very selective about what I did do (I was one of the writers for the ‘HBS Show’ in my second year and worked on a business plan for a nonprofit).... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 31 Jul 2016
- News
You Rang?
venture capital—to ask how they were doing it. Their answer? Help. So the pair hired a woman from Craigslist to assist with chores like grocery shopping and picking up the dry cleaning, splitting the expense. Intrigued neighbors asked if... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
human dynamics are strong, magic can happen.” Can you describe your first cold call and how you responded? “It was first-semester RC year in TOM, with Pian Shu. I hadn’t spoken in a while, so I expected it might be coming. Even so, it did... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
plan. “We are now wrapping up the second stage, called pre-production, which includes finalizing the treatment (equivalent to a script in a narrative film), casting, location scouting, and, of course, fundraising. “In short, we are ready... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
base. In the winter, nothing was better than curling up in front of a Spangler fireplace—the warmth, the hot chocolate, the large weird art on the walls, the comforting flow of foot traffic—it made studying almost too enjoyable.” What... View Details