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20 Oct 2023
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

heels. I was also raised seeing my sister come out years before me and open the door for how siblinghood and queerness could intersect. I’m grateful every day for a family that... View Details

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Indoor Spaces | About

Indoor Spaces Many indoor spaces inside the buildings of the Harvard Business School campus have been named in honor or in memory of donors, alumni, faculty, and friends of HBS. Anderson Classroom The... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

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Develop Your Career Vision - Alumni

Careers Develop Your Career Vision Careers Develop Your Career Vision Your career and life vision is unique and evolving. It encompasses what you want to be doing holistically – from work to View Details

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

friends was having the most fun? The answer by a wide margin was the people in the stock market. They were playing in a mini-bubble of microcap stocks and getting out before it exploded. I played, too. It... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

20 May 2024
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Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

what you do, and showing up with a sense of purpose.” Roberts credits his family as his primary influence. As the youngest of three, with a sizable age gap between him and his... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

M. Shapiro George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Tom Clay Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Joshua Lev Krieger Høegh Family Associate Professor of Business Administration... View Details

25 Apr 2023
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How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey

spirituality even means for me. This was such a refreshing way to start off the year. It felt like going on a retreat (in the middle of the HBS campus), where I could think about what I wanted to get out of the rest of my HBS experience (and life) View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

outcomes such as higher retention and better engagement. Read the Report Featured Videos Joseph Fuller Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Joseph Fuller Joseph Fuller Measuring... View Details

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Patent Terminology: priority date

What is a priority date and why does it is matter? Priority date refers to the earliest filing date in a View Details

02 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

human involvement and human contact. People are saying, “It’s just a job.” So if it’s just a job, I might as well go get another job. But when it’s your friends who are working there, it’s not just a job.... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

10 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

Suddenly, the minimum wage debate is on high boil. Perhaps spurred by growing concern over wealth inequality, minimum wage proposals are heating heat up in cities from Chicago to Albany, and in states from South Carolina to Florida.... View Details

Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

graduated from Harvard College. Her grandson Ordway P. Burden (AB 1966, MBA 1968, HLS 1971) represented the fourth generation of her family to be educated at Harvard and was attending HBS when the... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

October 2023 (Revised January 2025)
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Ӧzyeğin Social Investments: A Legacy of Giving

By: Christina R. Wing, Zeshan Gondal and Brittany L. Logan

This case explores the work of Özyeğin Social Investments, founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin, one of Turkey's most successful entrepreneurs. With a focus on education, health, gender equality, rural development, and disaster relief in Turkey, Özyeğin Social Investments and the... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Family Business; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Turkey

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25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

whose causes and consequences remain unclear. 23 The housing price downturn in 1926 led to a rise in the foreclosure rate. Foreclosures were the cause of considerable hardship in the 1920s, but public attention focused on the plight of... View Details

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

an airplane. “Social media has changed consumers’ expectations with the way they communicate with brands,” says Leslie K. John, Marvin Bower Associate Professor. “I have friends who have had a bad customer experience, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

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