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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
impact in business and society. This effort is amplified by HBS’s Racial Equity Plan, which calls for the School to attract additional Black talent to all parts of the community and that has, in turn, inspired new efforts by the MBA View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
serves over 20,000 meals annually. Her new career as a professional photographer marries her love of the arts with her business skills. She has also worked as a voice actor, lacrosse and volleyball coach, admissions assistant, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good Fellowship
Fellowships are need-based grants that support the School’s need-blind admissions policy and help ensure that outstanding students, for whom HBS might otherwise be unaffordable, may enroll at the School. All students are first awarded a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
portable digital media device, designed to challenge Apple’s wildly successful iPod, to market too late? Without hesitation, Ballmer candidly replied, “Sure, it’s too late” — an admission greeted with approving applause. But that turned... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- News
A Wider Frame
When Stephen Coit (MBA 1977) attended Harvard College, the portraits he saw on the University’s walls could best be described by three adjectives: “Male, pale, and episcopal[e],” in the words of Harvard University Senior Admissions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
remember writing essays for admission to HBS and talking a lot about leadership and impact,” she recalls. “I can’t think of a better way to be a leader and have impact than what I am doing now.” Scharpf created SHE in the fall of 2007 to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU), as a panel chair at the 1999 HBS Entrepreneurship Conference, and as a member of the Finance and Management Consulting clubs. She has also worked with the Admissions Office and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
persuaded other kids to follow their lead, and who can show that they’ve got the drive and stick-to-itiveness to set a goal and chase it down. I would also mention that a key part of our selection process is that we’re set up as a need-blind View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
an area where neither Paal nor I have any background experience.” Ten employees now staff the IT department, a “hefty investment” by Gisholt’s admission but a necessary one in a business that relies so heavily on accuracy in its... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker realize “how little these... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
people lined up outside hospitals that nevertheless had an abundance of empty beds, they studied the phenomenon until they understood it. Sometimes the solution was to shift work away from swamped doctors and on to other staff. Other times, they could streamline... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
their own academic goals. “I wrote my admission essay about my time at the Treasury, and the need for people who speak the languages of public service and finance,” she says. “I wanted to have credibility and background in both government... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
after my father-in-law pointedly mentioned the difference in earning power between teaching and business. Although I wasn’t especially interested in a business career, when I secured admission to HBS, I could not pass up the opportunity.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
occur, even when everyone in the room is a successful expert, and even when interactions are anonymous,” says Lakhani. The study also generalizes to other settings where experts deliberate, he adds, from VC partners and funding committees to professional awards and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the company I had started. At this point, with a wife and six-day-old daughter, I decided to apply for admission to HBS. Attending the MBA program, living in Cambridge, and meeting young, enterprising Americans, resulted in my immigrating... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
briefly returned to Goldman Sachs after graduation before choosing a new career path as a firefighter in San Diego. He also runs an online mentoring program for high school students, PrepWell Academy, which focuses on developing real-world skills and guidance during... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
which offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Today, Year Up serves more than 1,300 students in nine cities across the nation. The book follows a Year Up class from admissions through graduation.... View Details