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- 17 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
2+2 Students Discuss the Value of an MBA
years (maximum of four years) working in a professional position in the public, private, or nonprofit sector. We encourage students from STEM and humanities disciplines to apply, but the 2+2 Program attracts accomplished students from all...
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- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
encourage employees in an acquired company to "preserve and internally disseminate the knowledge that made the smaller (acquired) company attractive to the larger one." Vladimir Pavelko expressed his support for such a bonus,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Petra Moser and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine whether prizes encourage innovation and, if so, how. We compare changes in U.S. patents per year for technology areas where U.S. inventors won prizes for exceptional innovations at the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708051 UnME Jeans: Branding in Web 2.0 Harvard Business School Case 509-035 This case introduces emerging Web 2.0 social media in virtual worlds, social networking sites, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
encouraging the growth of domestic business and multinational corporate investment. In many ways the use of the word "development" is misleading because it implies a process that is noncontroversial: Who after all can be against...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- Portrait Project
Tamara Lynn Nall
the lights on when the slow music starts! Consult to young entrepreneurs in my local community... Establish an endowment for African-American students at HBS... Be optimistic during the best and worst of times, standing true to my morals and convictions I want to live...
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Meg Whittenberger
more hardship than most people face in a lifetime, and every day she confronted the grueling trial of living in a world that expected her to fail. I reflected on my own contrasting privilege and my own insecurities, and I doubted if my View Details
- Portrait Project
Mina Park
me and encouraged me to see how much more fun and valuable it is to be different. Out in the world again in less than three months, I will never again be the first Asian in an English school in Africa or one of the 0.5% student moms in...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
the Skills Gap Project, the college debuted a new health-care curriculum designed to meet the skill needs of a nearby medical center. Their next project: encouraging other HBS alumni clubs to tackle the issue in their communities. “We can...
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April White
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require...
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- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
around the world adapt and lead. Climate jobs have never more robust or exciting. From transportation to tech to agriculture, regardless of your experience, I’d encourage all MBAs to make climate a part of your next role." Nathan Nemon...
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- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
high-impact boards and also to bolster the ecosystem of nonprofit networks so they can share, exchange, and collaborate on best practices.” More than 1,000 people attended the summit over the two weeks, and participants were encouraged to...
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Margie Kelley
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
its community. This transparency builds trust with all key stakeholders and is something that I believe the corporate world could learn a lot from.” Internally, Gower has focused on increasing morale among the council’s workforce, which he says was quite low when he...
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Jennifer Myers
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Michael W. Toffel Abstract Process-improvement ideas often come from frontline workers who speak up by voicing concerns about problems and by taking charge to resolve them. We hypothesize that organization-wide process-improvement campaigns View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Paul Sternhell
I did not imagine that I could be a successful student until a fourth grade teacher showed me a better way to study. My leadership capabilities went unused before friends encouraged me to run for club officer positions in college. If you...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Leadership for External Relations
terrific opportunity to encourage alumni support of HBS at a critical time in its history," notes Schroeder. "HBS has a stellar reputation, a world-class faculty, and a Dean with a compelling strategy for moving forward into the next...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Message to Our Readers
the latest developments at the School. This spring, watch for a survey in the magazine asking for your opinions on business developments over the last 75 years, with the results to be published in the December issue. As always, we View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
School’s Young Leaders Program, which encourages contributions from young alumni by lowering the giving threshold for certain funds. Although his career path since HBS has been in investment management, Popa, a vice president at the Los...
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