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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World—co-authored by HBS Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, HBS project director Shirley Spence, and writer Russ Banham—shares more than 200 stories of HBS graduates who have taken steps toward...
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Andrew Kinard
It's not uncommon for HBS students to attribute their interest in business to a turning point in their lives. But in Andrew Kinard's case, that point was as precise as it was violent: a blast from a roadside bomb in Iraq that left him without the use of both legs....
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
“I think it's a combination of two things,” he says. “First, people have the time, because they're stuck at home. Second, there’s a lot of economic uncertainty, and people are worried about their job security.” In this interview, Mullane...
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Jen Mele
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
MBA program of the Athens University of Economics and Business, where he creates and teaches courses in management and cross-border business. Indeed, in a life filled with accomplishment, these interactions with young people are...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong...
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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933), one of the first...
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Deborah A. Farrington
assets under management, in the U.S. In an industry where just six percent of the partners in venture capital firms are women, finding a successful firm run by a woman is more than unusual. But unusual is nothing new for Farrington. Having View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage,...
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- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
time, had been a Harvard Radcliffe Program graduate and made me aware of it and encouraged me to apply. I'd always had an interest in business and business management, but there just weren't that many places to go if that was your...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
future fleet, Henderson and cofounder Mike Carter, graduates of the US Merchant Marine Academy, have developed a marine battery system based on a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery. Called the Leviathan, it fits inside a shipping...
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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
companies to recruit qualified managers. “We help people who are looking to return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, the high GDPs, and the need for management talent, but who aren’t sure how to go about...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
once the SEC makes its moves. It's the first time the pair has worked together. After they graduated from high school, Callaghan pursued undergraduate studies in economics at Harvard College. Two years after...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy,...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
to honor Keen's graduation from HBS in 1997. While recognizing his achievement, a grandfather figure told Keen to remember his roots and be wary of the outside world's worship of money. "It was a little embarrassing," Keen told me,...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
its desirability to customers, and its economic viability.” Is Harvard an incubator of entrepreneurship? “Harvard ranks among the world’s top university incubators of entrepreneurship. SEAS trained Bill Gates; Mark Zuckerberg; Dennis...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Teaching Teachers
Casado says, students of fellow CPCL alum Michael T. Bendixen visited the FEA from the Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, to meet with faculty and graduate students and learn more about the university's approach to...
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