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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Leger’s manager at the World Bank encouraged her to apply to Harvard Business School and earn her MBA. “I found my time at HBS to be incredibly fulfilling—academically, intellectually, and socially,” she recalls. “My best memories of HBS...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
managing a New Jersey regional operation. Eleven years ticked by, and Parker grew restless at work, a sentiment encouraged by his wife, Alita. “Even though I had a successful career at IBM, she thought I could do more,” Parker recalls....
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Meet the Latino Student Association
experiences in the classroom, which is why we need more Latino leaders at HBS. As an organization, we are dedicated to strengthening the LASO community by fostering a pipeline to HBS, building an encouraging experience once students...
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- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
plans, we find collaborative engagement of the functions to be a consistent process feature and operational norm encouraged and maintained by integrators. In particular, the information processing nature of the sales and operations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how HP engineers...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Entrepreneurs are routinely encouraged to form partnerships—don't dare do it alone. But new research shows the potential danger of getting too close to outsiders—particularly investors—when proprietary information can be leaked to...
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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom
the Executive Education program Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual, organizational behavior expert Frank Barrett encouraged executives to embrace Davis's mindset, reducing their reliance on the tried-and-true in the effort to allow...
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
Whose investment capital will help us, and whose money might undermine our chances of success? To what extent do commonly used performance metrics kill innovation, and how can we develop metrics that encourage new growth? Can acquisitions...
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
equity As we engage with leaders at the forefront of addressing racial equity, this report delves into the effectiveness of current strategies, identifies ongoing challenges, and pinpoints crucial barriers that must be overcome. It provides an in-depth look at what is...
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Recruiting Students - Annual Report 2014
nearly $32,000, about half the cost of tuition and fees for the year. $32k Average MBA Fellowship During the fiscal year, donors established 28 new fellowships and added to many existing fellowship funds. Many of the donors of new fellowships gave the funds to View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred...
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Thomas Frick
- 22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug
then one day in 2008, Stata contacted Giler to encourage him to check out this wireless-electricity startup he had invested in. "It's a good case for networking," Giler says. He returned to the campus a couple of years ago to discuss a...
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- 19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneur, and two other cofounders, Keshavjee launched Honey Care Africa (HCA)—with Jiwa as director—to encourage beekeeping as an opportunity to enhance farmers' incomes. "From its inception, HCA has had an explicit triple...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
to be in show business, so at Columbia at least I was in the right theater, if not the right row. Then came my big break: a benevolent Lampoon friend of mine who worked for David Letterman called to say that his show needed writers and View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Wellesley is a place that creates a new normal, and it has built a very strong network of strong, inspiring and encouraging women. What’s something you’ve done that you’re proud of? I spent a year traveling on my own after college – I...
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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
Employers will come to us and say, ‘we’ve gotten the impression that we need to get our arms around this in some way. Our competitors are doing it.’” Prokanga’s unique recruiting focus encourages employers to consider flexibility as part...
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Jeremy Burnham
purchasers would be key. The team regrouped, modifying their exchange model with a twist: The old shoes wouldn’t be used to make new shoes, but interesting trinkets instead. The trinkets (such as wallets, pouches, and key fobs) and the discount would View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
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Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology
to many ongoing initiatives, including a partnership Henry led with Airbnb that will provide standby housing for local residents in the event of a natural disaster. To encourage deeper community engagement, Henry has led a number of...
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Rohan Kekre
a useful reminder of why I was interested in economics in the first place, and makes all of us more effective researchers. Advice for Prospective Students I would encourage you to seriously spend time doing research before starting. This...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice. That’s the premise of his new book, We the Possibility, which encourages governments to think like startups. For Weiss, who served as chief of staff to Boston’s mayor and...
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