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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

to remote work for the remainder of the semester, essential staff remained on campus to support the many MBA and Doctoral students who call HBS home for the duration of their program. Virtual Programming... View Details

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The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS - MBA

offer to move to Miami and work at Restaurant Brands International (Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes) in their Leadership Development Program. While I was honored and excited about the opportunity, I couldn’t picture what was next on the... View Details

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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA

make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to shape your career in impact and ESG investing? Though I worked in financial services prior to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I... View Details

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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA

an Engineering Sciences SB (Bachelor of Science). After spending 22 years on the east coast, I decided to try something new and moved to the Bay Area. I worked as a software engineer at Optimizely—a mid-sized A/B testing SaaS company—for... View Details

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When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA

resources, mentorship, and community to Harvard students working on startups. It's a great working space for my co-founder Josh Hoffman-Senn (HBS '19) and I work to on Venuefly... View Details

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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA

their time before and during the MBA program. Swanee Golden (MBA/MPP 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Princeton, New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I worked on Google’s Social Impact Team as a... View Details

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

productivity in a short amount of time,” the researchers write in their recent working paper Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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What is an HBS Section? - MBA

understand and work through cases together. The section is the embodiment of this idea. The section is also an extremely safe environment where everyone is encouraged to speak up and contribute in the discussion. That allows for a very... View Details

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such limitations on women to the contemporary spotlight. Yet, the desire... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Tsedal Neeley | About

best-selling HBS cases, including Managing a Global Team, which is the most widely used case worldwide on global and virtual work worldwide, as well as her patented software simulation on global... View Details

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

story, people would rather stick with the known, which seems safe even if it is inadequate. The ultimate art of leadership is encouraging people to let go of their fear of the unknown and plunge into the work of innovation. It’s always... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Standard Bank Group. (You can read more about Williams’s work with NBA Africa in this recent article from the HBS Alumni Bulletin.) The panel was moderated by Naana Winful Fynn (MBA 2004), a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Contact Us - Research Computing Services

Contact Us Contact Us If you happen to be off campus or would prefer to attend virtually for any reason, you can also join us via Zoom: Web Conference Link: https://hbs.zoom.us/j/479352769 Audio-only Phone Dial In: 888-475-4499 (US... View Details

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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Contemporary African Art Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview Contemporary African Art at Harvard Business School Opens February 2024 Online Exhibition Celebrating the vibrant African contemporary art scene, this online exhibition... View Details

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

trajectories of satellites and worked on the development of a carrying system for a Venus rover as part of NASA’s Adept mission. “Being able to talk to these scientists and engineers at NASA about different atmospheres and different... View Details

06 Sep 2022
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To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero (MBA 2019) and Daniela Izquierdo (MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

direction, resulting in an excessive number of brands and factories organized nationally in a Europe undergoing economic integration, and a virtually autonomous business in the United States. There were barriers to flows of knowledge,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

24 May 2018
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Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

The essay attempts to answer the question, “What consequences did the spread of the internet have for geographical location of economic activity?” Harvard Business School Working Knowledge asked Greenstein to expand on several points from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

04 Jan 2022
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Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

score low on both because business success requires a working amalgamation between technological prowess and end-user delight, and not all generations within an organization will be quick to adapt or appreciate (the metaverse).”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2024
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Unlocking the Power of Community

at work “underneath the hood,” Fung says about the underlying technologies, protocols, and infrastructure that enable the Watch to Earn experience. “But understanding that is not a prerequisite to engaging with it.” Bleacher Report used... View Details

Keywords: April White

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