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The Challenges Ahead in the field of impact investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

working... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve View Details

17 Feb 2015
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HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

San Francisco has always been a beacon for people who want to change the world. From beat poets to hippies to gay activists, each wave of counterculture immigration has put its stamp on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

07 Nov 2020
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Gender differences in COVID-19 perception and compliance

16 Dec 2019
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Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

rewarding to have the opportunity to help shape public policy in a way that’s beneficial to them." Yet social norms are a significant factor when it comes to the success... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

environments that shaped the commercial opportunity. The UK offered a framework that provided an incentive of around 50 percent of your income. Israel offered a feed-in-tariff... View Details

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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - 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

16 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 16, 2007

low capitalization, younger, unprofitable, high volatility, non-dividend paying, growth companies, or stocks of firms in financial distress, are likely to be disproportionately sensitive to broad waves of investor sentiment. We review... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

The senior leader has to have the understanding and the confidence in his conviction. WK: Has a deference to the science of management gotten in... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

photography, Machine Age photographers created elemental shapes and abstractions of industrial production that extolled the functional beauty of worker and machine. In an image produced for View Details

10 Jul 2000
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Privatization and the New European Economy

ownership to the private sector and become regulators—a position that will, in fact, give them more power to shape the competitive environment of industries not only in their... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

10 Sep 2021
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Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

technical understanding of how race and racism have shaped the most pressing problems of our time. How effective was the course? Morgan: The... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

Since its founding in 1908, HBS has viewed business as a powerful means for improving society. More than a century later, says Dean Srikant Datar, “the role we can play in tackling systemic challenges has become more important, whether in View Details

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

abnormalities. The natural and social sciences are interconnected, and I am fascinated by how their intersection shapes health and treatment of disease. This summer has reaffirmed my commitment to using my... View Details

January 2010 (Revised December 2011)
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Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China

By: William C. Kirby and G.A. Donovan

With the recent announcement from the Chinese government that the country's healthcare system was going to undergo reform, Jiamei Dental Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15 year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Expansion; Health Industry; China

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04 Mar 2002
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Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

... leadership of (especially people) assets." The timing of this "bull market," Chris Wolfington writes, may be accounted for by "the wave of managers who were hired at fast growing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Tell Me Who You Want Me to Be: The Role of Collective Endorsements in Leader Identity Development

By: Christopher G. Myers

Research examining 'leader' as an individual role identity has gained prominence in recent years, yet our understanding of how individuals develop these leader identities in organizations is still relatively limited. Drawing on a qualitative interview study of leaders... View Details

Keywords: Identity Construction; Talent Management; Selection; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Organizations; Identity; Singapore

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog

AI and Anthropic as well as specialized companies like Videa Health, Metaphysic and Instadeep that are applying AI to more specific problems (Dentistry, Movie/TV production, Route optimization etc.) We also look at the power of algorithms... View Details

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

Risky Behavior During COVID-19, a National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper released in August. Lessons from the pandemic’s first wave News of a deadly virus hitting View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

11 Sep 2015
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What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

Having the JD/MBA community has fundamentally shaped my time at Harvard. The group represents a collection of the most passionate, dynamic... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna

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