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- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
financial and accounting professionals, regulators, corporate executives, educators, fund managers and environmental sustainability advocates around the topic, according to the organizer, HBS professor Robert G. Eccles. Eccles, a pioneer...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Comings and Goings
46% (New York City: 24%) (Boston: 11%) Western United States: 16% (California Bay Area: 8%) Central United States: 15% Europe: 9% Asia/South Pacific: 6% Southeast United States: 4% Latin America: 2% Other: 2% Career Choices Financial...
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- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government...
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Consulting
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
changed with the times, what improvements, if any, have they experienced in customer satisfaction and financial performance? Shapiro: Unfortunately, we did not formally maintain relationships with the many companies that we used as field...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric devices in tuberculosis (TB) treatment...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
markets." The War For Talent Professor Ashish Nanda teaches Professional Services as well as Leadership, Values and Decision Making. His research focuses on managing professional service firms. Current...
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by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Patrick Connolly
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to broaden my intellectual...
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- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on...
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Jill Radsken
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
sales, podcasts, and webinars and other learning programs. Chief Information Officer Ron Chandler, with extensive experience in IT leadership, technology design, and management both in academia and in professional and financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
of the public and private realms and their impact on financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole. Faculty-led sessions will delve into four key areas: Innovation, Technology, and...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
something," and identify ways to change the business. Also on the technology front, Stevenson urged companies to consider using hosting services and application service providers to manage...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
counselor at a children's center confirmed her interest in family care but also made her realize that she preferred to approach the field "from a business angle." In 1988, she left Leo Burnett to follow her heart. Small soon discovered the fast-growing field of...
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Linda Goodspeed
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Leroux was elected in 2008 as Chairman, President, and CEO of Desjardins Group. In order to compete effectively in a demanding and changing financial services industry and survive the global View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings....
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by Working Knowledge editors
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
to his home country of South Africa and established Allan Gray Investment Counsel, a firm dedicated to meeting clients’ needs, including delivering superior returns through rigorous company research. While many financial institutions then...
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
Policy team. In that role, I developed and analyzed Lyft policy positions on future of work and emerging technology issues such as machine learning, data sharing, and financial technologies. Connecting with the tech community at Harvard...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
innovation sectors of the economy,” she says of the new position. Working as COO “synthesizes my past experiences,” she adds, citing her early career as an investor at General Atlantic; her recent work as a limited partner at Fremont Group, a family investment firm in...
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- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income...
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Taxation;
Cost Accounting;
Cash Flow;
Interest Rates;
Economic Systems;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Statements;
Valuation;
Accounting Audits;
Financing and Loans;
Legal Services Industry;
Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
responsible for overseeing care delivery Financial executives who direct cost management for health care delivery organizations HR executives from large organizations who manage health care for employees, collaborate with health care...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
industry, but in every industry and in our society.”—Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), co-founder and managing partner, StarVest Partners Other studies—as well as anecdotal evidence from VCs—show that women are more likely to underestimate themselves and the View Details