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01 Mar 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented circumstances. How do you View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

long-term success. But the world is changing rapidly—and this old one-and-done contract no longer applies. The skills and knowledge we need to manage and lead today’s organizations are in constant flux, and there is a growing need for long-term learning. View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas; HBX; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - 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

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

minimal viable product (MVP) for our mental health startup idea, and to achieve that, I decided to level up my technical skills through an intensive coding program for three main reasons: 1. Entrepreneurial empowerment2. Future of business3. View Details

22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

training program, and now just became employee number one at Microsoft's development center in Nigeria. And he's an amazing person, I mean with or without Andela, he would have been fine. When you meet him, you'll know, he's on a mission.... View Details

June 2020
Supplement

Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)

By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang

This (B) case expands upon the journey of Career Karma’s three founders by presenting a fictionalized Investor Meeting scenario. View Details

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08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

your unique bridge and “network your tail off!” Both strategic parts of the process would be key to Mbanusi securing a summer internship at DBL Partners, one of the largest impact investing funds in the country; a winter internship with Illumen Capital, an impact... View Details

24 May 2022
Blog Post

Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

director of state operations, he was charged with keeping priority projects on track and handling any related crises. A year and a half into his job, the pandemic hit, and he became the point person for the state’s COVID response efforts.... View Details

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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“Overnight,” Ming says, “we experienced a complete channel shift in terms of ticket purchases, school registrations and donations; with a corresponding lift in revenues.” On a personal level, Ming experienced a shift herself. “A lot of... View Details

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Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog

promoted within, and retained by the organization Know how to design organizational processes, such as hiring procedures and training programs, in ways that complement the organization’s formal incentive systems Have the analytical tools... View Details

27 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

generalizations on these macro-trends and think top-down, HBS classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager train us to think bottom-up. We learn how to test hypotheses quickly, and how to use new tools to solve old problems. 5. Skills are... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

saying odd things such as, "Gee, I've never had a black professor before." One day, another of the older professors took him aside. "This person was different from me in every dimension you can imagine," said Thomas.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

24 Mar 2023
News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his View Details

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

arrogant the fact that they practice their training and present useful contrary views?) What do your personal experiences tell you about these questions? What has worked for you? What hasn't worked? Why?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2011
News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African Americans receive fewer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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