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02 May 2023
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Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team. Before coming to HBS, I lived in New York City where I worked in integrated marketing for VH1. During my View Details

30 Jan 2012
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Shopping Around

Europe. In an interview published in the July 24, 2011 London Sunday Times, the U.S.-born Calabrese, who taught business and marketing to high schoolers in Charles County, Maryland, before a late-1970s career change to commercial property... View Details

Keywords: real estate; shopping; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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Thirst for knowledge High energy Both intellectual and street smarts Creativity Willingness to change Inquisitive Writing, communication and time management skills What makes it challenging to work in View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Alumni Achievement Awards

everything away from you except your education. I spent 20 years in the financial markets in Brazil, in a very exciting period in its history. By the time I was 52, I still had work to do, and I was... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

operations. His time in Colombia opened his eyes to widespread poverty. “I took the time to learn about the people, the environment. I found that people worked with the cartels because they didn’t have other... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

commercial solutions to social and environmental problems." The goal of the study was to help IC, whose members collectively invested $80 million from 1992 to 2001, the time horizon of the study, develop a fact-based understanding of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

includes econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on advertising agency costs and intermedia competition in the U.S. national advertising market. He has also studied the changes over time in the concentration and geographical... View Details

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the best career decision you ever make is to take a pay cut in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto

alliance, a restructuring, or entry into a new market or product category) arise relatively infrequently. Q: Is there a place for the advocacy (or "contest") approach in real time and in some... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Kevin Nazemi

Kevin Nazemi chose Microsoft after graduation from MIT for the chance to turn a small market presence into something much bigger. “When I arrived, our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product had almost no traction in the U.S.,”... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and Charity Pre-Industrial Credit in... View Details

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

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Intraday quotes

Where do I find intraday quotes for various types of securities? In Bloomberg: For Equities: Type the stock's ticker symbol then hit EQUITY, type QR and hit GO . You can change the date and the time interval. For Indices: Type the... View Details

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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

product manager, salesperson, or sales manager. The course is geared toward entrepreneurial settings, specifically execution required by the founder. However, the best practices are applicable to larger company requirements as well. “The #1 skill HBS alums wish they... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score

Miller Photo courtesy James Andrew Miller Having spent much of my time since graduating from HBS working in television or writing books or movies, I’m often asked why I went to business school in the first place, and whether I regretted... View Details

Keywords: James Andrew Miller; Organizational Behavior; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

identify characteristics of stocks that an investor who is worried about bad times should buy— a “rainy day” portfolio. Diversity in Innovation Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang discuss a systematic and persistent lack of female,... View Details