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04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

Mentoring? There was negligible response to last month’s column. Either there was little interest in the topic of reverse mentoring or potential respondents may have been discouraged from responding by Stac,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Molly Welch

tremendous impact on human problems -- but that its impact would depend on how systems are developed and the problems to which they are applied. I came to the joint MBA/MPP program interested in more directly shaping the governance and... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

business training to evaluate technologies that challenge the conventions of discovering, producing, and consuming the materials and resources that drive our everyday lives. This includes mining and refining... View Details

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

What we learned about BTG Bioliquids and biofuels We left our visit with some key considerations and food for thought. First, it was interesting to witness how threat and opportunity are merely different sides View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

Such conflicts—real or perceived—are most apparent when a faculty member is grading a student’s work, but they can also exist when there is the potential to grade future work, to vote on degrees, or to vote on disciplinary matters. Although the HBS Conflict View Details

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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

How to use Capital IQ. Capital IQ is an information service that is particularly relevant to those who are interested in investment banking, investment management, private equity, and corporate/business development.Login to View Details

18 Oct 2023

Life at HBS Chat with the Central & Eastern European Club

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 Central & Eastern European Club who will share their backgrounds and how they... View Details

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

and beliefs." Respondents raised several interesting questions. In referring to author Barbara Kellerman's typology of followers (isolates, bystanders, participants, activists, and diehards), Kim Allen... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

business interest other than merely competition. In the US, all but a handful of states allow them, but with a variety of laws and legal interpretations. Making the arguments... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

board in terms of planning. It was a real transformational moment for me personally, and it began to transform the company. Hanna: It's interesting to me hearing you talk about the David Halberstam book and... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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... View Details

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4 Tips for MBA Students with Families - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

investigation was scientific and technical, "the aesthetic purpose is to make available a new medium of expression to the numerous individuals who have an artistic interest in the world around them." 59 In... View Details

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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

– In addition to being a standalone certificate program, Economics for Managers is also one component course of the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program , which also includes Business Analytics and... View Details

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Get Involved Thank you for expressing interest in Rock Center programming. Your engagement is critical to the success of our student programs and initiatives. The purpose of... View Details

19 Jul 2023
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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

media space; it’s competitive and interesting – especially when you really believe in the content they make.” Mizuho spent her internship summer deep in reflection, “struggling to move out of finance and... View Details

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Research Summaries

Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success. His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.

Social Capital... View Details

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