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- 06 Sep 2013
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More Seats at the Table
business expertise, women also bring a very different set of emotional skills. Stewart points to studies that have found that women directors facilitate the discussion of difficult issues by forcing boards to confront the tough questions....
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sea of Dreams
he wasn't given the proper safety equipment. But Heinandez was unable to complain or find alternative employment because of his legal status: He was an undocumented worker. The financial crisis of 2008 added new dimensions to the story. Von Allmen View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor category––with multiple products View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Minister) Dr. Manmohan Singh. Up until that time, government controls on production (referred to as the “license raj” or “permit raj”) created a stagnant environment for competition and entrepreneurial activity. MBAs who came home during this period View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
at the company’s core. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers. The publicly traded company has won numerous honors, including Fast Company’s World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care; MIT...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Upstart Startup
In 1999, Wall Street bankers Randy Altschuler (MBA ’98) and Joseph Sigelman (MBA ’97) founded OfficeTiger in Madras, India, to serve as an outsourcing shop to perform secretarial services for Wall Street financial firms. Today, the...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
functionality contained in a search engine. Instead, each project was assessed by a panel of industry experts, who rated the performance of the resulting product relative to others that targeted similar customer needs at the same time. Overall, the authors View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 11 May 2015
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Washington, DC Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
The Honorable Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979), honorary chair of the HBS Campaign and a founding member of the Global Leaders Circle, delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Washington, DC Regional Event, May 11, 2015. Alumni and friends of...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
the day—the evening drop has melatonin, for example—and we're now rolling out a line of medicated lozenges." A Higher Authority When Steve Silk took over at Hebrew National in 1999, the company had lost $6 million in the two years since ConAgra acquired it from the...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
delivery entrepreneur. Our faculty included the Swiss government's former top health official and HBS professors Hamermesh, Huckman, Quelch, and Rangan. “In global health care, we've found that a key driver of innovation is...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Oakland to inquire about franchise opportunities. Founded during the Depression by William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Dreyer’s had established a Bay Area reputation for premium quality and inventiveness, dating back to the debut of its Rocky...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
seen interest in energy issues come and go, usually pegged to the price of oil. In 1985, Reinhardt, then a first-year MBA student, arrived at the School eager to join the Energy Club only to find it disbanding for lack of interest. Six years later, the United States...
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- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
teacher. Of course, that was a path for me where I really found who I was at my core. And I want to share that with others and allow them to discover who they are. And then, of course, the eating disorder recovery coaching practice has...
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- 30 Oct 2020
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Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups
2012. WHOOP, founded by Harvard College students at the i-lab in 2012, announced this week that it has raised a $100M Series E round at a valuation of more than $1 billion. "We will continue to make WHOOP the best product experience for...
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- 01 May 2013
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William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Bowes believes has exhibited all three of those qualities throughout his career as an entrepreneur and an HBS professor. “I have great respect for Howard and all that he has done for the School,” says Bowes, noting that he sees Stevenson as a View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Advocating for all children with autism
convinced by the growing science showing that vaccines were not the cause of autism, she left the group and founded the nonprofit Autism Science Foundation (ASF), where she serves as president. Based in New York City, ASF focuses on...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
tightrope on which Apple found itself: It wants to promote a sense of privacy among its users, but that runs into some of the claims that the government is making against them with regard to public safety. I don’t think I would’ve...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story
for running and raising modern families, who previously founded the Y Combinator–backed Poppy and spent a decade building consumer businesses at P&G, Adidas, and Starbucks.
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