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08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

Florida on February 23 for "HBS in Palm Beach: Breakfast with Dean Datar." Then on March 14, the Dean will travel to New York City and on March 21 to Los Angeles for evening events with alumni in those regions. Additional international... View Details

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

utilized by earlier stage investors.” There are also numerous PE firms with well-known brands that attract large numbers of students to campus events and into their applicant pool. In terms of location, students tend to focus on major metropolitan areas, though firms... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

24 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Introducing the HBS Heartland Club

treks for their classmates to their hometowns (Columbia, KY and Cleveland, OH). From there, the initiative began to attract not only those from the Heartland, but also anyone who wanted to learn more about what other U.S. cities have to... View Details

14 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

classes, the city of Boston, and more. I learned not only how diverse the student body is in terms of interests and passion, but also that business school is more than formal business education. Yes, it's a commitment to learn the... View Details

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2016
News

Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

opportunity to learn how to raise institutional capital for their businesses. In two inaugural cohorts that summer— one in San Francisco, the other in New York City —18 female entrepreneurs participated in 12 workshop sessions organized... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients such as Prudential, Colgate,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

binary black-white racial classification and facilitated the incorporation of—previously racially ambiguous—European immigrants into the white majority. We exploit variation induced by the interaction between 1900 settlements of southern-born blacks in northern View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

organizations, including nearly three years in the New York City Mayor’s Office, Michael Alan Williams (MBA 2018) found his first post-MBA opportunity with The Kresge Foundation. “It was entirely serendipitous,” Michael says. “I intended... View Details

February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details

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13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Oct 2015
Blog Post

LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

decide to spend two years of your life. You want to know you can be happy and successful even if it’s not in cities like San Francisco, New York or Chicago, which have very large and vibrant LGBT communities. What has surprised you about... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

experience—ideally, designing and/or developing technology-intensive products.” Is there a competitive advantage to pursuing a degree program like this in Boston? “Boston ranked first among 25 U.S. cities in a study conducted by global... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-testing by sabbaticals

both physically and mentally. He used the time to transition from city life in San Francisco to country life in Sonoma County. He proposed to his girlfriend, helped plan a wedding, and plotted a career transition from hospitality to... View Details

Fast Answer

Private companies: fast growing

financials you can also add % Revenue Growth YoY to your screening criteria.

Use published lists: American City Business... View Details

12 Dec 2015
News

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

Earlier this year, HBS professors Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca, working with doctoral student Dan Svirsky sent 6,400 rental requests to Airbnb hosts in five cities using distinctly white or distinctly African-American names. In the... View Details

8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 26 Oct 2018
Career Events

HBS Career Reboot Camp in New York

Career Reboot Camp is coming to New York! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS faculty chair for the program. Childress, Grossman, and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

15 May 2019
Blog Post

Instagram Takeover - Arts Society Trek in NYC

co-president of the Arts Society, Graciela Arango, takes us to New York City for the Annual Arts Trek. Graciela Arango is a first-year (RC) student originally from Panama City, Panama and received her undergraduate degree in Science and... View Details

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