SATs - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

applicant quality and quantity. Overall, athletic success has a significant long-term goodwill effect on future applications and quality. However, students with lower than average SAT scores tend to have a stronger preference for athletic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Ready for Departure

billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to reimagine the passenger... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

17 Jul 2020
News

Support System

midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond

Harvard. “The sense of urgency can be overwhelming, but it’s also empowering,” says Nash. “We need policy and government to bring innovations to scale, but business is where innovation begins.” We sat down with Jennifer Nash to ask her... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

to be paid. Hodgson, who is president and CEO of the parent company and a former entrepreneur-in-residence at HBS, sat down with the Bulletin to talk about how these unlikely entrepreneurs used their differences to their advantage, a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Watch Video We recently sat down with entrepreneur and HBS alumnus Robb Fitzsimmons (MBA 2016) to talk about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - and the ways it will benefit future leaders of technology ventures. Here's what he... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

MaterialsMicrofinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case Harvard Business School Case 808-104 CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at least 5' 10" with 1400... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

point during the spring semester of our first year, I realized that my section was having a long-term conversation. We weren’t just discussing the cases in each class, we were having a conversation that had begun the first day we sat... View Details

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

happen.” “Deep foreboding” is the opposite. How could the present moment be both? The paradox exemplifies what we heard at these events. Speaker after speaker called this year “a crossroads,” an “inflection point,” a “precipice.” As I and hundreds of others View Details

22 Jul 2015
News

Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

economic growth, which identified the tech sector as an area of potential growth. The key factor in attracting technology companies would be the strength of the talent pipeline, VEDP determined. The near-final draft of the comprehensive plan that View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jun 2016
News

Ink

Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

social, cultural, and legal environment. Given the prospect for continued movement toward competition and the propagation of "best practice" management ideas on a global scale, is the question largely academic? What do you think? Original Article In recent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

method sat on the opposite side of the pedagogical spectrum that I had experienced in my academic life, and I really didn’t know what to expect. My first year had provided a comfortable landing with the joint degree cohort, where I had... View Details

17 Sep 2024
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

professional and personal outlook? HBS’s case method thrives on diverse opinions. When I first sat down in Aldrich 008, the classroom for my section, I heard so many different accents and opinions. My sectionmates hailed from over 30... View Details

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

quantity. Overall, athletic success has a significant long-term goodwill effect on future applications and quality. However, students with lower than average SAT scores tend to have a stronger preference for athletic success, while... View Details