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23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

green business profitable is an even harder journey. For society's sake, entrepreneurs must be prepared to make that journey, says Geoffrey Jones. A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/308024-PDF-ENG Competing Through Business Models (D) Harvard Business School Note 710-410 This note was prepared to aid students in the EC course "Competing through Business Models."... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

School.How do you set up an IT governance committee? A company that decides it needs board-level IT oversight must do three things: Select the appropriate members and the chairman, determine the group's relationship to the audit committee, and View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101

not the fact that I invested 40 hours in information sessions, 60 hours in interviews, 40 hours of preparation for those interviews as part of 20 job applications and approximately 200 handshakes and 50 glasses of wine in networking... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

only because it has always been my dream school, but because of the case method approach of teaching. Having been through lecture-based classes in Asia for most of my education, I wanted to experience what a case method class felt like, and I was View Details

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

way to contribute in a meaningful way. All in front of over 90 people. Looking back, I can’t think of a better way to prepare us to be “at the table” wherever we go next. Why did you pursue a joint degree? The other important aspect of... View Details

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

not? Innovation Panel Dr. Yusuf Hamied Dr. Yusuf Hamied CEO of Cipla, explains that the government’s inability to combat deadly diseases like Bird Flu led him to pursue a new way to produce and manufacture medications to prepare the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

developed a new second-year course: Investing—Risk, Return, and Impact. Here, they talk about preparing the next generation of investors for maximum impact. This movement is a decade old. Where does it stand? Shawn Cole: Investing for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial champions have the largest stakes?... View Details

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

decade, JOE & THE JUICE had spread across the continent and was immensely profitable. But as it moved into the United States and prepared for a potential IPO, the company began struggling to retain talent and worried about how it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him... View Details

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

different times and came from many countries, the alumni who filled Burden that morning all shared an intense curiosity about where the new Dean intended to take their School. Just shy of 100 days into his tenure, Nohria came prepared... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

anticipation of international students' needs as they enter HBS. The School offers a comprehensive array of services for internationals, from help with class participation and exam preparation skills, to support and advisory services... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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, saying that "It helps to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

they have in preparing leaders versus managers? Is case method instruction due for an overhaul? What do you think? Reference: Geoff Gloeckler, "The Case Against Case Studies," BusinessWeek, February 4, 2008, pp. 66-67. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

23 Jun 2021
Blog Post

How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

with their Africa offices high on her list. For other students seeking internships outside of the US, Nyantekyi-Owusu offers the following advice: be proactive and be patient. “Be really proactive, but also be prepared to have... View Details

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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

one woman are entering the Harvard Business School (HBS) Doctoral Program this fall." 32 Edna Homa Hunt (DBA 1967) became the first woman to receive a doctorate in business education from Harvard. The doctoral program focused on preparing... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

would be proud to spend a decade of our lives working on it,” says Lee. Three years in, he is certain that the DZD team’s ambitious agenda is a worthwhile pursuit. Empowering Students to Transform Human Health To prepare future leaders... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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