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01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

company’s meeting space and first official address. “That’s more important for a company than you think,” Goble says. Additionally, he benefited from the financial support of the Rock Summer Fellows program, and in the fall of that year,... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

on Boards (WEoB), designed to support, educate and inform one another of board opportunities. That powerful organization now has over 220 members—all women who completed the WOB program. Each year, members of WEoB return to HBS to share... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

little about your background and what your interest in climate-related issues is. I am currently in my second year of the joint MBA/MPP program with HBS and HKS. I started my career as a generalist at McKinsey’s Hong Kong office and... View Details

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

of discretion that an investment advisor has on their client’s assets, interaction may require substantial work at both the investment advisor home office as well as with individual clients. Based on our interviews, securing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

your life, particularly early on. Gerald Schwartz: I think the real influence in where I grew up was where my father was. I had a wonderful relationship with him. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked this year’s recipients of the... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally,” says Tabellini. “It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t.” Despite the national reckoning in the United States after the killing of George Floyd by a white police... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (B) Supplement to HBS No. 118-007, "Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (A)." Chief Human Resources Officer Tore Høylie was proud of REMA... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

boom. Retail investors—who buy shares directly through websites like Robinhood rather than investment firms or employer-sponsored plans—snapped up stocks that appeared to have poorer prospects under traditional metrics. Remember the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

disclosures with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While many companies have been trying to build more inclusive workplaces, only half of S&P 500 companies had gone as far as naming a chief diversity officer as of 2021,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2021
News

The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

class 2023 admission letter, again, with my name on it. I figured the admission office had made a mistake and that the packet was supposed to have gone to someone else, but somehow they mixed up my name and address on it.” Bai, with... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

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When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA

start my own thing – with the rough concept of AirBnB for event venue spaces (e.g., host a birthday party in an art gallery, a wedding in someone's barn). Fortunately, there are a lot of resources for aspiring entrepreneurs at HBS. For... View Details

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10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - MBA

daily, had a mid-term statistical-analysis project, had a final modeling project, conducted two presentations, and had a final exam. Despite the accelerated format, it was still a full graduate-level class. 8. Being a small group has its advantages Our first case was... View Details

03 Jan 2023
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How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

introduction to Ms. Hesselbein in 1988. Case preparation, appearances in my classes, and writing for her later publications then followed. "As Hesselbein put it, 'the power of language is so important in this job.'" Welch and Hesselbein View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

09 Apr 2019
News

Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed

In a series of posts on LinkedIn, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, has written an extensive examination of modern capitalism. “I believe that all good things taken to an extreme... View Details

Keywords: capitalism

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

along with it—in essence, defining the way that applications should interact with its preexisting software components. It extended the model to its application business, sharing increasing amounts of code between products like Word and... View Details