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- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
utilized by earlier stage investors.” There are also numerous PE firms with well-known brands that attract large numbers of students to campus events and into their applicant pool. In terms of location, students tend to focus on major metropolitan areas, though firms...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 24 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Introducing the HBS Heartland Club
treks for their classmates to their hometowns (Columbia, KY and Cleveland, OH). From there, the initiative began to attract not only those from the Heartland, but also anyone who wanted to learn more about what other U.S. cities have to...
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- 14 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned at SVMP
classes, the city of Boston, and more. I learned not only how diverse the student body is in terms of interests and passion, but also that business school is more than formal business education. Yes, it's a commitment to learn the...
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- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
opportunity to learn how to raise institutional capital for their businesses. In two inaugural cohorts that summer— one in San Francisco, the other in New York City —18 female entrepreneurs participated in 12 workshop sessions organized...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients such as Prudential, Colgate,...
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- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
city vacations. “When you like one lake, people infer that you hate cities,” Barasz says. “And when you hate one lake, people infer that you love cities.” In the second study, 297 participants read a scenario about a consumer named Jane,...
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- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Its user base is not really growing, but 70 million users is nothing to sneeze at. So why doesn't MySpace get the attention it deserves? The fascinating answer, acquired by studying a dataset of 100,000 MySpace users, is that they largely populate smaller View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
club, and held its first off-site retreat for members of its six Alumni Forums. "We also started the Dallas Explorers Club," adds Schmitt. "It's a way to build awareness of Dallas as a multicultural city by exploring different...
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
binary black-white racial classification and facilitated the incorporation of—previously racially ambiguous—European immigrants into the white majority. We exploit variation induced by the interaction between 1900 settlements of southern-born blacks in northern View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences....
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
to explore how MMAC can expand and deepen this important private sector partnership to accelerate the area’s 1400+ Black and Brown-owned businesses, helping create new family-supporting jobs and reduce the racial wealth gap. Why did you choose this internship for the...
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where all children can fulfill their potential Radha Ruparell 24 Aug 2017 When I was 12-years old, my parents took me to visit the rural village in Gujarat India where our... Channeling Business Leadership into Civic Impact: HBS Alumni and the View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in their partner’s city. Seoul was among a roster of 16 View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
my husband’s German grandparents lived as refugees during and after World War II. We were able to walk the streets they walked. It wasn’t a part of the city you would normally visit as a tourist, but it had a profound impact on us.” Check...
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Julia Hanna
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
be rebuilt. This was about healing. The city needed its music back. The audience, most in tears, gave the orchestra a five-minute ovation before the first note was played. And as the last chord of Ravel’s Boléro hung in the air, some...
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- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills
decide to spend two years of your life. You want to know you can be happy and successful even if it’s not in cities like San Francisco, New York or Chicago, which have very large and vibrant LGBT communities. What has surprised you about...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
experience—ideally, designing and/or developing technology-intensive products.” Is there a competitive advantage to pursuing a degree program like this in Boston? “Boston ranked first among 25 U.S. cities in a study conducted by global...
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