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- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
the other schools within Harvard. His challenges include attracting the best faculty and students, creating linkages across the university, and determining a strategy that will make Harvard engineering as well known as its other schools.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Mushroom—and I made my way through it and was thrilled that it was over. It was my first cold call I ever got at HBS. And then we had our three-minute break before our next class, and I walk into the next class and the professor says, “Scott Schulman, View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
explained, adding, "I also feel an overwhelming obligation to take good care of the money given to me by investors. The resources in this domain are so scarce—I want to succeed so more money will flow into the sector." "I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups
without breaking the bank. The median base salary for an HBS summer intern at a startup was $7,000 per month in 2023. Startups need a recruiting budget and must go through a formal recruiting process All of HBS's recruiting resources are View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
who originally challenged Chu to apply his experience to these issues, stepped up as an angel investor for Project Antares, named after the brightest star in the night sky. One of the challenges of the project, says Chu, will come in... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA
team. Before HBS, he co-founded Overtime Sports Group, providing free youth football camps to marginalized youth in Cleveland, with mentorship from NCAA Division I and NFL athletes. He also served as program director for the Herman J.... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
do the job well, and people will offer you more responsibility. Commitment. Demonstrate that you are excited about your job, and people will invest in you. Compatibility. Prove that you can get along with... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Web
Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
space onto which companies could imprint or stamp their name and address. “We will send you Fancy Advertising Cards, no two alike,” the Union Trade Card Company announced, “With or Without Advertisements on them, for only Twenty-five... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
weekly Tupper Lake Free Press about an idea for a regional nature museum in the heart of his beloved Adirondack Mountains, he picked up the phone. Clifford, who still goes by his childhood nickname “Obie” when he’s in Upstate New York,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
analysts, he or she must believe that an analyst's report is something more than a disguised sales pitch. So banks have ordinarily insisted that analysis and sales were separated by a so-called Chinese wall which left analysts free to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
America. But that didn’t mean Rice put his nonprofit on hold: he simply worked two jobs at once. “Looking back, I’m not sure that would be my recommended course of action,” he says with a chuckle. “It’s risky to the day job; and it puts major constraints around View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
concern. While operating in Chapter 11, the company pays no interest on its pre-petition debts, freeing up cash that can be reinvested in the business. Moreover, any new money that the company borrows during bankruptcy must be repaid... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
explanation was offered most provocatively by Tony Wanless, who commented that "B-schools are university cash cows, and the only way to justify their fees is to go where the mass market wants it to go. So they concentrate on what View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
create a lot of tension.” Desai hopes the conversation about reparations will ripple out from the HBS classroom. To help make that happen, the School is offering for the first time a free pdf of the written... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
And HBS seemed to have sort of released me into the nature. So I went free and traveled more. April White: What is it about traveling that is so interesting to you? Zhang Mei: You know, travel for me, it's endless learning. In Chinese,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
resources they need. Getting those resources will help the entrepreneur build a more valuable company. However, getting those resources is far from a free lunch. To get co-founders, investors, hires, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Focused and pragmatic, she is deeply committed to across-the-board success at a school where 93 percent of students are African American, and 65 percent are from economic backgrounds that qualify them for free or reduced school lunches.... View Details