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28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

voter participation, and strengthening the pipeline of leaders entering political races. For Ballou-Aares, this mission is personal. Growing up with a single mom and limited resources, riding the subway back and forth to public school, she experienced a system that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

where Minnick serves as chief commercial officer, is one of several actors in the so-called “new space” sector that are pursuing commercial opportunities beyond our atmosphere. Long a provider of real-time geospatial intelligence to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

players work with incumbents, and I would say the best approach is to help them realize that the world is changing, and there’s an opportunity here to participate in their own disruption. At a high level of the automotive sector, both... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity.... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk

facing society and the economy, and this is one of them. We feel we have an ability to make a positive difference, and an opportunity to learn in the process. Porter: This really starts with the idea that the School has a unique platform... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

As we begin the new academic year, I welcome the opportunity to share the exciting initiatives and activities under way at Harvard Business School. All our efforts are designed to pursue with excellence the School’s mission: to educate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small... View Details

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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America the Difficult

their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can’t. In effect, these distorted environments burden local firms, create opportunities for institutional arbitrage for... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Alumni Runner-up prize with Magma Trading, a stock market for block-size trades that he calls “the Costco of trading.” Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) (Europe region) took the $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize with his pitch for WeMaintain, a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

Earth. This book is an invitation to live in another story, the story of sustainable abundance. Cleantech Sell: The Essential Guide to Selling Resource Efficient Products in the B2B Market by Tony McDonald (MBA 1989) Cleantech Sell... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for View Details

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

earthquake, they were still so hospitable. It was a great opportunity for me to think about how to help them.” She returned to the United States, committed to making a deeper dive into social enterprise work. She landed at the Initiative... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

impact on how they dealt with me during and after my illness." Today, Haberkorn is on the boards of three companies-Armstrong World Industries, a leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings, and cabinets; the Enesco Group, a View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

popularity of this case about an unglamorous product in an obscure industry. “I think its durability comes from the opportunity to discuss the basic management issues it raises — the value of Lincoln’s clear and consistent approaches to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

markets, a trillion dollars in foreign exchange move through the markets each day. The telecommunications revolution is a huge factor, as is the vast increase in cross-border migration and air travel, notwithstanding recent events. As a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

leading a class of 32 HBS students in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) on the Tech Startup Ecosystem in the UK and Europe. The featured panel of UK-based HBS alumni entrepreneurs, who shared actionable insights on how to overcome challenges amid View Details