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20 Sep 2021
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

professionals and institutions in building better financial futures. The Sustainable Investing team is focusing on a variety of environmental, social, and governance projects, including the launch of a new $1B fund called Decarbonization... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

The Exchange: Micro Management

the next step in growing their business.) These borrowers are already organized in groups, so there’s a community of people that knows them very well. We do a variety of formal and informal interviews to understand who they’d feel... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

participants attended a variety of talks, panel discussions, and seminars, including sessions led by Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Kathleen L. Valley. A highlight of the conference was the presentation of professional... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

tend to focus their energies more intensively on one of these goals at a time." On and Off Buttons In Bulletin interviews with nine HBS alumnae, many of whom attended the Charting Your Course program, a variety of reasons were mentioned... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms. Stripping away these routine trades, which comprise... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

biotechnology leaders need to understand clinical trial management. Likewise, with a growing variety of new product introductions requiring pre-market testing, managers and analysts in many business sectors will benefit from understanding... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

beholder. You either learn what it is from your parents or you'll never get it." Instead, professors use theory and examples to teach future business leaders why value is important and how to create an organization that fosters value creation. Students are exposed... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

lack of certainty concerning qubits themselves. That’s because SEEQC’s control chips are inherently qubit-agnostic: While they currently support the company’s own superconducting qubits, they should work with all the other varieties of... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

and with Marietta’s support, recently completed her undergrad degree. Pine Mountain’s approach is holistic: In addition to offering more than a dozen environmental education courses for schoolchildren that integrate science, ecology, and Appalachian culture, it holds a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

in a variety of ways, Khalsa says. "First of all, the roughly 15 percent of the staff who are Sikhs come to the office centered and focused after our morning spiritual practice, which gives us the clarity to make better decisions," he... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

precisely pin down the safest loans to back. If platforms limit the amount of information available, the playing field is more level and a wider variety of investors have a better shot at choosing cream-of-the-crop loans. Not your... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting

perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is familiar means that establishing and promoting shared expectations can become more complex. To reduce friction and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace,... View Details

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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report

succession planning. These two aspects of today’s business landscape may appear separate, but they are inextricably linked—especially for board leaders. Diversity across backgrounds, including age, class, and race, can be crucial to helping organizations apply a View Details

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

navigate and shape an environment in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions and financial service providers including banks, nonbank financial... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

doesn’t scale and AI enables more access. It allows inclusiveness because you can do things in much cheaper ways, but solutions need to be designed thoughtfully.” For McKenney, the diverse backgrounds of the students in the SIP and the View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of business and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

that being an entrepreneur was empowering. "While discrimination and sexism are still realities, if you own your company, you can have an impact," she says. After graduating from HBS, Lambert held a variety of positions, working as a... View Details

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

instructors have gone so far as to copyright their varieties of yoga; others in the yoga community say it is a religious and/or spiritual practice and as such should not be claimed as intellectual property. Purchase this... View Details