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- 05 Apr 2016
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A Business Plan with Spice
saffron fields of Afghanistan as cofounders of Rumi Spice, a company which imports one of the world’s most expensive foodstuffs and markets it to top chefs. “Connecting Afghan farmers to the international marketplace is something that's...
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- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Jakurski, MBA 1973 Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Thomas A. James, MBA 1966 Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder...
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Andrew Dervan
operations in a General Electric jet engine facility. "I think of the operating room from the perspective of a doctor," Andrew says. "But wouldn't it be great if I could learn from GE, if I...
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Luis Cervantes
International in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, the largest private-equity firm in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. Although the positions gave Luis “a broad operational view” and hands-on...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
The common language is ASCII, a binary code consisting of combinations of ones and zeros. But your brain doesn’t operate this way. Instead of ASCII, your brain understands sparse distributed representations (SDRs). SDRs are also zeros and...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Introducing the HBS Heartland Club
In the traditional sense of the term, the Heartland has referred to any U.S. state that doesn’t touch an ocean. At HBS, the Heartland Club’s focus is even broader. Our focus is on specific regions in the United States that are underrepresented in the HBS student body....
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Krishna Mahesh (MBA ’05) not only traveled the longest distance to arrive on campus for the final round of judging in the inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest, he also figured he had the longest shot at winning. The seven finalists, representing five domestic and two...
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- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
settings, reflects risk neutrality in choice among low-magnitude mixed gambles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-056.pdf PublicationsConstructing the International Economy Editors:Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
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Keeping the Missions Under Control
human space flight activities. What that means is that all operations that take place for human space flight, real-time operations, and development fall under my purview. “The skill set that I have to have is very broad, and what the HBS...
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- 05 Feb 2015
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Crossing the Atlantic
ironically, my decision to go back into consulting resulted from the incredible experiences I had at a tech startup this past summer in Zambia. Those three months in Africa gave me the opportunity to fulfill my goals of working in a tech and e-commerce startup, getting...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"We were never in any imminent danger, but there was always this question mark, a feeling that something big could happen," reports second-year MBA student Daniella Ballou, who spent last summer in Liberia as an intern with the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle Endeavour for a 14-day mission to the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
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Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety...
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- 12 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
company evolved into India's first smart electric scooter. Operating manufacturing facilities in Whitfield, Bangalore, and Hosur, Tamil Nadu, Ather Energy has established Ather Grid, India’s largest two-wheeler electric charging network....
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- 22 Jan 2019
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Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
done.” Similarly, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), home of Tim Hortons, Popeyes, and Burger King, “has a very meritocratic, performance-based culture,” says Naira Saeed (HBS MBA 2017), Tim Hortons’ Director of View Details
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations...
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- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international business because consumers associate premium chocolate more with Belgium or Switzerland than with Venezuela....
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Sean Silverthorne
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Executive Education course Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) because, “To lead such significant scale and growth, I needed leadership training and support to reduce operational complexity and drive the organization...
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