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- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- Profile
Lisa Cousins
management consulting, and wanted to move to a functional role in a company to deepen my industry knowledge and management skills. I knew that HBS, through its international reputation, strong alumni... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
elsewhere.” Leveraging the HBS alumni network, Rachel secured an internship between her RC and EC years at naviHealth, Inc... a digital health company. This internship allowed her to make an impact at the organization by working on View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding, and Vikram Oberoi, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
ultrasound technology—had fumbled with a book that fell to the floor during the exam. Oishi got a peek at the title: Ultrasound for Beginners. Second, she realized that she couldn’t make it back to the hospital in two weeks for the next checkup. A McKinsey View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
moment, they would appreciate what we’re trying to do and laud it versus feeling like something was taken from them: They would see their parents managing people and striving to accomplish things. I believe all those things that matter to... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood concept of India as unable to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of successful books. Last year, Neil released The Happiness Equation, which began as a nine-month... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
change. Thus, for a capitalist system to evolve in an effective developmental sense through time, it must have two hands and not one: an invisible hand that is implicit in the pricing mechanism and a visible hand that is explicitly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
working on? A: I'm working on several cases right now, most of which deal with the pharmaceutical industry and the ways in which pharmaceutical firms manage through the political dilemmas that often confront them. I'm also beginning to... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Industries - 2006 (TN) Harvard Business School Note 207-097 No abstract available. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (D) Harvard Business School Supplement 207-087 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
with us and explained more about the drivers of The Story of American Business and the book's implications for managers and leaders. Martha Lagace: Please give us a bit of backstory to this project. Nancy F. Koehn: The New York Times... View Details