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- 07 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Too Big?
potential friends, (nearly) perfected infrastructure and resources, clubs for anything you could be interested in, and a massive alumni base. I’ve experienced all of these things so far. It also gives you... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
faster than your family or business consumes them. Of course, growing families and businesses are both good at consuming assets. For many family companies we have researched,... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
experience.” Sophie Bai is the founder and CEO of B.A.I. Technologies, a biotech company based in Cambridge that holds various patented technologies to treat skin diseases. Brianna Bai is a member of the HBS... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
lower emissions) is becoming the focus of operators. Consumers are shifting their product preferences and investors are incorporating these in their asset allocations and specific investment decisions. There... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
transformed it into a multinational, $2 billion consumer products enterprise, part of which, Benckiser NV, went public in 1997. (The remainder of the company, including Coty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the... View Details
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
Life at HBS Chat with the Midwest Student Association
Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear directly from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Midwest Student Association who will share their backgrounds and how they have... View Details
- Web
Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
With the largest database of electric vehicle charging infrastructure performance worldwide—featuring information such as location, pricing, charging speeds, and consumer reviews—he uses big data and machine... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
exciting. For the other 364 days a year, consumers go out of their way to avoid commercials. Kenny: The case gets into some data about how much brands are spending on advertising, generally speaking. I mean,... View Details
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
Steenburgh's course, students give their pitches in front of peers who evaluate the performances on a number of factors, including the quality of the idea itself, how likely it... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
mainframe computer, and made the requested transactions. Playing a small role in the front lines of money management was the perfect introduction for her career leading one of the nation’s top investment... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
subject of authors interested in explaining rational or irrational behavior. We have covered the topic in our previous discussions of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Barry... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
education at the University of Tokyo Medical School. He also kept his quantitative skills honed working summers as a financial analyst in the Surgical Services Administration at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Three and a half... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
everyone in the medical space. They also knew their content should be interesting, easy to consume and eye-opening to all the possibilities there are outside of medicine. They realized the best media would... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the profession. Journalists are asking, Whom do we serve? How do we know what people think is important? Any good reader-revenue strategy has to be built around a real understanding of the audience and what motivates people to View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
understanding the group's interests but in understanding its constraints. In order to increase the amount of food sent to disadvantaged countries, the consortium had in the past partnered with American... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area... View Details