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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
affected people in project cycles and policy reviews. It is equally crucial to explore new modes of governance, not only at the board level but also at the level of national parliaments. Some civil society actors are already usefully...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission...
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Lily Wu
on your internship, what did the Whitney Museum do well to set you up for a successful summer? Open and constant communication is key to establishing trust and setting expectations. I was very pleased with the outcome of my summer View Details
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- 06 Aug 2018
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Parks Management is People Management
not yet becoming clear. This guided my decision to intern with the National Park Service (NPS). My objective was to test the portability of MBA principles to practical and timely resources challenges. The great news is that, half way through my internship, I feel I am...
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The Visible Hand of History
Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which had partnered with HBS in the 1960s and which itself has a strong legacy in this field, I was particularly thrilled to imbibe new ideas and practices at work under the Business History Initiative of HBS...
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Supporting Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the not-for-profit sector. Independent Projects These provide second-year MBA students the opportunity to...
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Paul Wang
researchers was not always as great as that of politics and business. I figured I should jump into the business arena to see what it was like.” Paul joined McKinsey in Chicago, where he worked on projects...
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- 14 Jul 2023
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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
rigor to the institution.” The inspiration arrived at the most opportune time. “NPR was a formative experience in which I learned two things,” says Mizuho. “First, I discovered that I enjoyed working for a mission I believed in and...
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- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
to ensure that emerging technologies are developed and managed in ways that serve the overall public good. At HBS, I work with the Harvard Project on Workforce, which is based at HKS but partners closely...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
sure to mark your calendars for June 17-19, 2003, in Shanghai, China, and March 9-12, 2004, in Washington, D.C. As I mentioned in my last letter, the Alumni Board is a working board, and I want to give you a quick status report on the...
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- 17 Dec 2001
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Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
showed that the closer an Intel intrapreneurial effort was to the company's main processor business, the better the chance of success. For projects outside the core business, Intel "either didn't fund it or did a bad job of it."...
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Gopesh Mittal
While consulting with McKinsey & Co on industry projects ranging from education to energy utilities in India, Gopesh Mittal discovered a deep interest in one especially important field, health care. “I View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
program manager for a project there that was focused on developing and launching low-cost, small satellites as an alternative to larger and more expensive conventional satellites. The experience of working...
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Clarissa Quintanilla
trying out different communication and leadership styles, all learning how to become more effective.” Market-based approaches In her first joint-degree internship, Clarissa worked on two projects under the...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad
hosted medical, law, and nonprofit offices. But by 2019, its small suites felt dated, and developers launched a four-year, $58 million project that would bring the building into the 21st century—not as offices, but as luxury apartments...
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- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Brazil,” he explains, “but after a project in Colombia, where we worked in regions that had been affected by guerillas and the drug trade, I started to think more about countries with challenges that require...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of...
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Jennifer DeWhitt
Before entering Harvard Business School in 2012, Jennifer DeWhitt, MBA 2013, had been very seriously working at Bain—and just as tenderly working on a children's book with her grandmother. "While I was...
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- 13 May 2013
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3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture
Foot View: My second project was with the Nike women’s business, called Women’s Training. My work with this team brought me one step closer to the product and the Nike consumer, allowing me to see Nike’s...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a...
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