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Jon Schechter
remotely from Boston. “The nice thing about my track,” he says, “is that if I decide to do my own entrepreneurial venture, the school has lots of support for that: the Rock Center, the i-lab, or independent work with a professor.” Jon’s... View Details
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How to Register & Key Dates | New Venture Competition
virtually to a panel of judges in this round. 4. Semi-Finalists Only Deadline February 28, 2025, 12:00 noon EST Semi-finalists will be chosen from the Super Saturday Virtual Pitching round. This is a remote judging round (Feb 28-Mar 14),... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
pleasure. Some 75 years ago, Tim’s grandfather began spending summers in a remote section of Ontario, Canada. He homesteaded a three-acre island for $90 in the Upper French River and built a house on the property, which was and remains... View Details
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Navigating Recruiting with Diverse Abilities: Advice from Alumni
Leadership Fellows Program offered clear guidance on the expected cadence of the work and when to expect periods of high pressure or long hours. With clear expectations, she felt more prepared to navigate the role as a professional with diverse abilities. Seeking out... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://hbr.org/product/southwire-and-12-for-life-scaling-up-a/an/714434-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-053 Freemium Pricing at Dropbox Online storage company Dropbox provided remote storage over the Internet of any type of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
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Field Course: Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
questions you would like the class to answer in PowerPoint format, posted on Canvas. Students are reminded of the Class Absence and Remote Attendance Policy . Grading is based primarily on class participation and quality of business plan,... View Details
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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog
in front of these trends? New labor models. Will remote work and the gig economy lead to fragmentation of the employment relationship? Will it change the geography of firms? We will consider firms managing the choice between contractors... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
commitments. Second, depletion of existing natural resources means firms will have to develop resources in increasingly remote locations subject to higher levels of sovereign risk such as Chad and Azerbaijan. And finally, the combination... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
launched a mobile money service, eZ Pay, only 13,000 customers signed up. The CBSL later allowed customers to register without having a bank account and also allowed for remote customer registration through a mobile phone. With these... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rocket launches. “When SpaceX began, everybody laughed and wondered how this billionaire guy could come up with a company that was even remotely relevant,” says Gautier Brunet (MBA 2015), a former rocket engineer who works for Seabury... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
continues. Similar to the NFL, this hiring has to take place virtually. And the shortcomings of virtual hiring in the business world are not dissimilar—technology fails, the impersonal nature of remote interactions, and the challenges... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
stakeholders around a noble purpose; how to unleash human magic and create outcomes that defy logic; and how to become a great leader by pursuing a noble purpose and embracing one’s humanity. Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
virtual work can be and remote internship and full-time options broaden the pool of potential candidates. Your HBS Recruiting team, including Recruiting Relations Manager, Katja Frey, and Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the scene for what happened next, because we took an hour long flight over vast remote green plains with barely any village in sight and landed several miles from a fairly large clump of ultramodern buildings, which looked like a Florida... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
political processes from which they were once excluded. Another asset big corporations enjoy is the power to protect programs once they are put in place, and the strength to thwart the status quo. With this power comes impressive reach as well, access to even the most... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more likely to select high ability individuals from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
capture economies of scale. In addition to controlling purchasing, merchandising, and distribution, these managers even control the lighting and temperature at Wal-Mart's 3,500 stores by remote computer. Of course, the spans of control... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons