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01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

December 2010
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VCPE Strategy Vignettes II

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope

These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, a senior partner must decide how to manage an over-extended colleague and how to reduce the risk of the firm's portfolio; the second... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Portfolio; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Risk Management; Stocks; Problems and Challenges; United States

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources allocated to those low-volume conditions. View Details

14 Feb 2024

Virtual HBS Information Session for Claflin University

Calling all Claflin University students! This virtual information session will outline the enriching journey of the HBS MBA program, the admissions process, and financial aid journey. View Details

26 May 2015
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Breaking down barriers

During her career at Morgan Stanley, Lauren Wagner Boyman (MBA 2006) helped revolutionize the industry by enabling financial advisors to use social media. (Published May 2015) View Details

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

today's complex financial environment, dealmaking is blending into a merger of negotiations and auctions. The Potential Downside of Win-Win What happens when a wonderful agreement ignores the needs of consumers? WORKING PAPERS... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Ricardo De Armas

feminine-care products in Latin America," says Ricardo. "Then, in a senior position, I managed material and productions costs for our baby-care business. Finally, I was involved at the intersection of marketing and marketing research as View Details

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Fred Smith

Association senator was confirmed when his fellow classmates elected him to be one of the '08-'09 co-presidents. As he prepares for his new role this summer, he will be actively engaged in the Financial Leadership Development program at... View Details

15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader

ideal way to marry my science background with my business aspirations.” However, cost was a concern. “Contrary to what many people think, the biotech industry—especially a tiny startup like mine—doesn’t pay well.” Fortunately, HBS offered Kim substantial need-based... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Lighting the Way

high-ranking executive positions. One of those 67, Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997), is working to grow that number. An executive vice president at Wells Fargo with nearly three decades in the financial industry, Anderson hopes that her legacy... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Developing Insightful Global Leaders

practices and share knowledge with ever-widening audiences, in the process striving to address society’s greatest opportunities and challenges. Alumni and friends from around the world provide the financial support and guidance that help... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Martin V. Marshall Remembered

Doherty (OPM 13, 1988), Marshall is survived by a sister, three sons, two grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Gifts in his memory may be made to the Professor Neil H. Borden–Rosanne Borden Marshall Financial Aid Fund at HBS.... View Details

Keywords: obiturary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)

quickly due to the evolution of technology.” Breakfast: A banana, toast with jam (no butter), orange juice (“I like to squeeze it myself”), and Lavazza coffee while reading iPad editions of Corriere della Sera, the Daily Telegraph, and the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; technology; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

31 Jul 2014
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Making Private Equity Public Knowledge

reached out to personal contacts in the industry, spending nights and weekends getting free lessons in industry skills like diligence and financial modeling, carefully building his path to private equity. "I was very fortunate to have... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2004
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Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

where he opened a lucrative financial practice. His downfall came in 1989 when a business acquaintance invited him to join in a bond-trading scheme involving the state of Oklahoma. In addition to skirting the intent of some laws, Kuhse,... View Details

Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books

which they unwittingly limit themselves. Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know by Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan (Jossey-Bass) Baker Foundation Professor McFarlan and his coauthor provide a guide to how board members can work with a nonprofit to... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

"Although Levitt's article was primarily concerned about the globalization of the product market, this paper expands the domain to three areas—the labor market, the financial market, and the product market—and investigates the... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

With the exception of New York University, HRPBA boasted the greatest number of female students in business administration. Individuals like Margaret Earhart, an activist for workers' rights as well as a faculty member, helped to sustain the program with her View Details

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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad

real estate partnerships, and he brings the practical perspective of an investor to the matter. Converting a neoclassical building in a neighborhood with the sort of retail and cultural amenities residents clamor for often makes financial... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

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