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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

firms and the program often led to businesses employing women in new areas. 28 The program initially matched students to two full-time job assignments. The first, an unskilled position such as a production line worker, sales clerk, or... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

phenomenon, he suggested, may be that American models are themselves in need of increased scrutiny. The wide variety of governance models presented was matched by a diverse array of panelists and discussion leaders drawn from fourteen... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

Value Assessment, and sustainability data from the Vigeo Sustainable Country Ratings. These were matched with the company's official language and strong/weak orientation toward the future, and several... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

cast of historians, management researchers, and others. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Tarun Khanna and Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Sudev J. Sheth, I was thrilled as participants explored, tested, and celebrated... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

01 Dec 2014
News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

no conservation staff or lab to perform the work, so documents in need of treatment had to be sent to contract conservators. But that changed with the renovation and expansion of Baker | Bloomberg, completed... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

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Europe - Global Activities 2021

continues to escalate—between 2011 and 2019 alone, more than 6 million people applied for asylum in the European Union. But in writing what would become the chosen paper—an examination of the online platform Just Arrived, which matched... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

cleanliness and are staffed with teachers who use a proprietary curriculum to create an educational environment. Customers pay a significant premium for convenience—as much as $13 an hour for infant care versus $4 an hour or less for... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

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Print View - Course Catalog

to the course. Purpose : Take your negotiating ability to the next level by matching wits with some of the world’s greatest dealmakers and diplomats as they work through their toughest deals. Examples: In... View Details

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

seeking out candidates, Memme’s story is a prime example of how candidates with varied backgrounds can be an ideal match for your open roles when given the opportunity. Memme’s engineering background allows... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 1996
News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

is that the School dramatically increased its investment in research and course development: from $10 million in 1980 to more than $50 million in 1995. HBS faculty members cite the former Dean's long-term vision, his skill at matching... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link central and eastern Europe’s software houses... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2003
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

four committees is particularly relevant to you, let me start with an update on the recommendations made by each committee, representing a year’s work by these very committed volunteers. The Alumni Communications Committee, under the... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details