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Doha Tantawy

When her father opened a radiology center in Cairo, Doha Tantawy "found a real inspiration to do something different and get out of my comfort zone. I wanted the know-how of building something from scratch." Her initial post-graduation View Details

Keywords: Retail/Hospitality; Consulting

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Andreas Jaegle

and find my own path.” Interested in “pushing myself into more challenging environments,” Andreas went to an international boarding school at age fifteen. Then, rejecting an opportunity to study law in Germany, pursued his undergraduate... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

in 2011 to the first Antares team assigned to MeraDoctor. Serving as US ambassador for negotiations on a treaty governing international telecommunications, Kramer headed the US delegation to a world... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In light of these puzzles, we read our findings as suggestive but tentative. Ethnic Scientific Communities and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2004
News

MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement

excitement and anticipation of new lives about to begin beyond Soldiers Field. The day’s program started with the conferring of the Student Association Faculty Awards for excellence in teaching. Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal (Business, Government, and the View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Farre-Mensa, Joan, Deepak Hegde, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

prolific outpouring of twelve books as well as a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Awards for best article of the year in Harvard Business Review). In addition, he was one of the chief architects of Business, Government, and the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

accuracy of daily sales forecasts. We collaborated with an online apparel retailer to assemble a dataset that combines (1) detailed internal operational information, including data on sales, advertising, and promotions, as well as (2)... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Jay Khil

get international assignments – that’s what encouraged me to think about business school as a way to move up and prepare for a international career.” Forced to expand horizons... View Details

Expanding Horizons

field. Working with faculty on MBA and doctoral courses offered me a more global understanding of international business history, and I became more proficient in the methods and debates that define the field. In addition, the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

will come as no surprise that some of the broader issues addressed last year have carried over; these may well be with us as we head into the 21st century! Committee assignments have been made around three broad issues: Information... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

attempting to get the right people in the right positions at the right time.6 McCall asserts that the management skills and intuition that enable people to succeed in new assignments were shaped through their experiences in previous View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

Web

Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

new market, and manage a portfolio of diverse brands. Highlights Sharon MacLeod, former Global Vice President, Dove Men+Care Tina Edmundson, President, Luxury, Marriott International Brian Perkins, CEO, Budweiser Brewing Group UK &... View Details

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Real Property - Course Catalog

in the industry. Content and Organization Conceptual Framework: The course is divided into five modules with additional exposure to international real estate. The first module covers the analytic framework for real property development... View Details

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis

to onboard 17 Summer Associates around the globe, they focused on engaging their current Actis employees in the process. In a typical year, each Summer Associate would be assigned a line manager and team buddy who could assist with... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Other Financial Services

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details