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14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA

effective learning and shape the distinctive norms and personality of their sections. Students quickly discover that the section experience fully engages them during their first year at HBS and beyond, helping to forge lasting friendships... View Details

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Propose an Independent Project - MBA

MBA Registrar Services Propose an Independent Project General Inquiries Cross-Registration Services for Alumni Propose an Independent Project Independent Projects allow second-year HBS students to partner... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

harassment. Privacy Notice Harvard Business School understands that the privacy of its users is important. To that end, we have adopted the following notice to provide you with information about the collection, use, and dissemination of View Details

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Other Student Organizations - MBA

JD/MBA personal and professional network that begins at Harvard and continues after graduation and to support one another in navigating through the JD/MBA program. JD/MBA Representatives (EC President) Leah Yared, lyared@mba2025.hbs.edu... View Details

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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Nonprofit Performance and Innovation - Virtual Rod Santiago Central Executive Officer | Archway Community Services "I got to be a part of an incredible cohort of people from all over the world." Driving Nonprofit Performance and... View Details

22 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

Free and Open Source Software, a joint project by the Linux Foundation and LISH released in 2022, and BuiltWith, a service that scans almost 9 million company websites to understand how they’re built, including what open source code they... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

for thinking about multiple dimensions of the environment and the way they interact. Clusters are concentrations of firms in particular fields, including suppliers, supporting services and related institutions. They enable productivity... View Details

Profile

Joy Chen

which I could learn from the best and potentially have more independent agency as a young person.” Exploring opportunities, seeking inspiration Joy’s business career took her from nonprofits to financial services (Fidelity Investments),... View Details

February 2022 (Revised November 2022)
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Fondeadora

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Mitchell Weiss

Norman Müller and René Serrano, cofounders of Fondeadora, a Mexican “neobank,” had lined up a $12.5 million in Series A funding round in 2020 only to run into a major obstacle: The lead investor was Gradient Ventures, a venture firm launched by Alphabet, Inc., and... View Details

Keywords: Fundraising; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Institutions; Business Startups; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Mexico City; Latin America

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November 2012
Case

Tracy Palandjian at Social Finance US (A)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Catherine Clark and Beth Bafford

It had been eighteen months since Tracy Palandjian had left her position as a managing director at The Parthenon Group to start an ambitious venture called Social Finance US. With a mission "to mobilize investment capital to drive social change," her new organization... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

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Educators

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision." Regarding communication: "Good communication does not mean that you have to... View Details

Keywords: Management

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Donor Societies - Alumni

email pg@hbs.edu so we can welcome you to the Society. Membership Offerings Recognition in HBS publications Invitations to selected events and programs Professional, personalized planned giving services... View Details

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Policies - MBA

order to complete the application process. Due to the large volume of applications we receive, we are unable to provide feedback to candidates who are not admitted. Non-Discrimination Disclosure Information Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

employers’ past transgressions. Generational factors and burnout Leaders must realize that their workers are their greatest assets in their quest to achieve institutional goals. Instead of paying lip service to caring for employees or... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

store.” Instead, the sales associates—nicknamed “blue shirts” after Best Buy’s trademark royal-blue collared shirts—brought the injured T. rex to a service counter and performed “surgery” on the toy as they surreptitiously traded it out... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

personalization for a customer, thinking through the right shelf assortment in a store, or stocking a warehouse, it implies changes in your process.” Finally, AI’s ability to rapidly test different options demands an experimental,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

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