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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
things were slightly different. At school you could just be right and that was great, and at work you needed to do things in a way which could be implemented. So it's not just being right, it's being practical about other people's preferences, about the View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
Commencement 2019 Address Play As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, May 30, 2019 Graduates of the Class of 2019, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and welcome. Commencement is perhaps...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
struggling retail stores; and turn them into a national chain. Cenedella worked as a senior vice president at HotJobs after graduation and became fascinated by a difficult problem in the job-matching industry. Job ads garnered hundreds or...
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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
social and economic value. Q: The field of social entrepreneurship is relatively new. Do you find an increasing thirst among students to make careers in this field? A: Absolutely. MBA interest in the field has increased dramatically in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother living in the projects in Cambridge, Harvard seemed untouchable,” she explained. However, years later, Dozie surprised herself by walking into an Aldrich Hall classroom and into a life-changing experience. She had earned a degree in View Details
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Entrepreneurship
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
describe some of the church’s projects? The central components of Allen’s outreach are economic and community development, housing, and education. Our first project was a 300-unit, senior-citizen housing complex completed in 1978. We have...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient...
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by Carla Tishler
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
an appendix detailing 10 math facts numerate people should know. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students entering advanced data analytics courses, as well as data analysts and C-suite executives just starting out, The Numerate...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
economics course, the premed student — whose third language is English, after Russian and Armenian — was instantly heading in a new direction. “I just fell in love,” she says. “I did some research on education policy and its impact, and...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the...
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Daniel Penrice
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
in the world. Productivity was stagnant and economic growth had slowed down significantly since the 1990s. What should Velasco do amid growing public discontent? Was it really in Chile's best interest to keep saving the copper wealth?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the 1960s, he felt himself drawn toward nonprofit activities. Upon graduating from HBS, Lazarus took the advice of a classmate and joined the Peace Corps in Panama, where he worked to develop a business training and education program at a...
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Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
payment of $1,” Baer laughs. “It was probably the first and last single-figure contract in broadcast history.” After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, Baer parlayed the experience, contacts, and notoriety he gained during his...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53540 2017 Swedish Economic Forum Report 2017: Svensk konkurrenskraft The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard 2017 By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
have been pleased with his legacy in this respect. Its possibilities are exactly what he wanted for himself. Kiechel Photo courtesy HBP Walter Kiechel III A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School as well as HBS, Walter Kiechel...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
action,” she adds. Of course, many alums will continue to follow the more traditional path of doing well professionally before taking up social entrepreneurship in later life. A generation of economic prosperity has made it possible for...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
really helped me to also begin to integrate more and more, and feel like I could actually just be one of them. Hanna: And you went on to Northwestern and to HBS, and yet after you graduated you came back to Nigeria. And I just wondered if...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and...
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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
India was hiring in 1960s were all English-speaking and English-educated graduates from St. Stephen’s College and other elite schools of India that were more like British schools that Prince Harry would go to. That was surprising to me...
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