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New on Skydeck: @reddit COO Jen Wong (MBA 2004, @onewong) talks to @harvardhbs classmate @patrickjmcginnis about how she grew revenues without compromising community. Recorded live at Spring Reunions. Link to episode in bio.
HBS is actively leveraging generative AI to enhance teaching and learning. “We want students to become able, inventive, and responsible leaders in their application of these tools, and we’re inviting their use of them while they’re at HBS,” says Professor Mitchell Weiss, chair of the MBA Program’s Required Curriculum. “There’s a role for the School and its faculty to play in helping members of the HBS community see how transformative these tools can be.”
Read more about GenAI at @harvardhbs and how gifts to the HBS Fund are supporting the School’s commitment to shaping the future of business—and business education—in a digital world at the link in our bio.
At @harvardhbs, David Perpich (MBA 2007) did a field study with five other people about happiness. “The basic takeaway was that when you’re doing what you want to be doing, your actions and values are most aligned,” says Perpich. “For me, that means working with talented people on a challenge that serves a higher purpose.”
Read more about what attracted Perpich to entrepreneurial ventures and media, the throughline in the Times’ products—from reporting to recipes—and what gets him out of bed in the morning at the link in our bio.
At least 100 commercial-to-residential projects were underway in major American cities at the end of 2023, according to the property data firm CoStar, with another 200 in the planning stages. Policymakers have greeted the trend with enthusiasm, as it seems to offer a single solution to twin real estate crises that were amplified by the pandemic: More and more white-collar employees are working remotely, a trend that has left city centers with a glut of vacant office space—according to CoStar, as much as 1 billion square feet nationwide. Meanwhile, demand for housing, especially in the country’s most economically vibrant cities, is far outstripping supply, causing rents to soar and shutting families out of homeownership.
“People love the idea, and I have always loved the idea,” says Laurie Gould (MBA 1996), a partner in Massachusetts-based VIVA Consulting who focuses on affordable housing. “We have these downtowns that are underutilized.”
Yet what sounds like a ready-made fix isn’t as simple as it sounds.
Find out why at the link in our bio.
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee rather than an undercover investigator trying to suss out other employees who are guilty of committing fraud, theft, or some other workplace misconduct.
Read her full story at the link in our bio.
New on Skydeck: @reddit COO Jen Wong (MBA 2004, @onewong) talks to @harvardhbs classmate @patrickjmcginnis about how she grew revenues without compromising community. Recorded live at Spring Reunions. Link to episode in bio.
HBS is actively leveraging generative AI to enhance teaching and learning. “We want students to become able, inventive, and responsible leaders in their application of these tools, and we’re inviting their use of them while they’re at HBS,” says Professor Mitchell Weiss, chair of the MBA Program’s Required Curriculum. “There’s a role for the School and its faculty to play in helping members of the HBS community see how transformative these tools can be.”
Read more about GenAI at @harvardhbs and how gifts to the HBS Fund are supporting the School’s commitment to shaping the future of business—and business education—in a digital world at the link in our bio.
At @harvardhbs, David Perpich (MBA 2007) did a field study with five other people about happiness. “The basic takeaway was that when you’re doing what you want to be doing, your actions and values are most aligned,” says Perpich. “For me, that means working with talented people on a challenge that serves a higher purpose.”
Read more about what attracted Perpich to entrepreneurial ventures and media, the throughline in the Times’ products—from reporting to recipes—and what gets him out of bed in the morning at the link in our bio.
At least 100 commercial-to-residential projects were underway in major American cities at the end of 2023, according to the property data firm CoStar, with another 200 in the planning stages. Policymakers have greeted the trend with enthusiasm, as it seems to offer a single solution to twin real estate crises that were amplified by the pandemic: More and more white-collar employees are working remotely, a trend that has left city centers with a glut of vacant office space—according to CoStar, as much as 1 billion square feet nationwide. Meanwhile, demand for housing, especially in the country’s most economically vibrant cities, is far outstripping supply, causing rents to soar and shutting families out of homeownership.
“People love the idea, and I have always loved the idea,” says Laurie Gould (MBA 1996), a partner in Massachusetts-based VIVA Consulting who focuses on affordable housing. “We have these downtowns that are underutilized.”
Yet what sounds like a ready-made fix isn’t as simple as it sounds.
Find out why at the link in our bio.
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee rather than an undercover investigator trying to suss out other employees who are guilty of committing fraud, theft, or some other workplace misconduct.
Read her full story at the link in our bio.
New on Skydeck: @reddit COO Jen Wong (MBA 2004, @onewong) talks to @harvardhbs classmate @patrickjmcginnis about how she grew revenues without compromising community. Recorded live at Spring Reunions. Link to episode in bio.
HBS is actively leveraging generative AI to enhance teaching and learning. “We want students to become able, inventive, and responsible leaders in their application of these tools, and we’re inviting their use of them while they’re at HBS,” says Professor Mitchell Weiss, chair of the MBA Program’s Required Curriculum. “There’s a role for the School and its faculty to play in helping members of the HBS community see how transformative these tools can be.”
Read more about GenAI at @harvardhbs and how gifts to the HBS Fund are supporting the School’s commitment to shaping the future of business—and business education—in a digital world at the link in our bio.
At @harvardhbs, David Perpich (MBA 2007) did a field study with five other people about happiness. “The basic takeaway was that when you’re doing what you want to be doing, your actions and values are most aligned,” says Perpich. “For me, that means working with talented people on a challenge that serves a higher purpose.”
Read more about what attracted Perpich to entrepreneurial ventures and media, the throughline in the Times’ products—from reporting to recipes—and what gets him out of bed in the morning at the link in our bio.