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- 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...
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Rachel Silverstein
of our community." The case method experience has delivered what Rachel had hoped for. "As an academic experience, nothing compares to being in a room with fully engaged people," she says. "Because everyone is prepared...
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
Departure on Wednesday, January 15, 2025. Course Fee: $3,500 Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student...
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- 18 Mar 2021
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Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
Chicago. About this program When most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But going blind in his early 20’s didn’t stop him from living. Becoming an...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
on the books of a company, Zulu Inc., being considered for acquisition. It comes to the attention of the acquirer that for some years Zulu has employed the same accounting firm. Directors at Acme, concerned about having their accountant review the working papers View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
of United Way of America a decade ago after financial scandals and executive wrongdoing had shaken public trust in the charity taught her valuable leadership lessons. “Restoring financial integrity to the...
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- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act can be one of the toughest of all managerial challenges—it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit...
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Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine | About
and distressing moment. I am grateful for the ways our community is mobilizing already to support one another. I want to alert you to ways you can help and remind you about a range of resources, at HBS and Harvard, you can leverage. There are many organizations...
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- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
organizations ready to take advantage of the talent surge? Just how prepared are employers? Are incentives and support systems for returnees to the workforce in place? Have we provided for the need for inclusion for those returning to a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Agarwala and Varma, developed proprietary financial planning software, and set up an online tax filing system that quickly made iTrust a leading tax preparation service. Offline, Agarwala and Varma steered...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
initiative that creates unprecedented intellectual, logistical, and financial challenges. Gifts to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation play a critical part in enabling such ambitious undertakings, which help ensure that the School...
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- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
After working in financial services for nearly six years, I realized that the skills needed to succeed for the next 20 years of my career were likely to be different than the ones required at the junior ranks. It was important that I...
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- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
Ask board members their most important duty, and they will likely say it is appointing and overseeing the CEO. Yet many boards fail to make appropriate choices, often because they don’t prepare candidates for the challenges they will...
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by Bill George
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
layoffs, though, only one person among the six panelists had retreated to a traditional consultancy in 2001. The rest—who started everything from a women-centric financial services group to a natural products company that grew from a...
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by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Bei Guo
before." "But I had no experience outside of Asia," says Bei. "An HBS MBA would expose me to the culture of the West. And it would give me an opportunity to round out my financial experience with skills in other areas,...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
many others go on to distinguished careers in financial services. Williams retired in 1986. When the Class of 1939 graduated from HBS, business and employment were still in a slump, salaries were at Depression levels, and war clouds were...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Illinois has serious financial issues, Chicagoland has far more vitality, economic activity, and interaction between downtown and the suburbs than Detroit. In terms of basic infrastructure, (water, bridges, and roads, for example), cities...
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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
3:10PM-5:10PM. Travel Dates : Arrive, Monday, January 6; Depart Friday, January 17 Course Fee: $3,500 Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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