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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog

evaluation of specific investment decisions and opportunities across a wide array of public and private markets. Students learn how to evaluate any investment opportunity and, just as importantly, how to enhance value and how to build a deal flow, while developing the... View Details

08 Mar 2017
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Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose

electrical systems went all the way back to my childhood. I think I bumped my knee one time, and my grandfather used an ohmmeter as a faux healing tool and said, ‘see when that needle moves, that’s going to make you feel better.’ And, of... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services

twice-monthly job newsletter ACS publishes, the 25,000-member alumni career advisors' network, career liaisons in specific fields, HBS clubs, and a range of information-technology tools at the Cole Room for researching potential employers... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

to teach them the established rules so they could be effective players in a masculine culture. By contrast, Ely, Ibarra, and Kolb propose a new set of principles to drive women's leadership programs (WLPs): Situate topics and tools in an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Partners - Managing the Future of Work

jobs, experience, qualifications, and skills employers are seeking. Burning Glass’ tools are playing a growing role in informing the global conversation on education and the workforce by providing researchers, policy makers, educators,... View Details

Portrait Project

Monica Sharma

It began with a pack of Legos from a McDonald's Happy Meal. A few plastic blocks were meant to be a helicopter, but I quickly transformed them into a multipurpose vehicle — a boat and time machine. To me, Legos were not inconsequential 1x2 inch plastic blocks; they... View Details

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Brian Elliot

rights, privileges, and protections my siblings and peers enjoy. I want to die an equal citizen of this country. "But if I am only for myself, then what am I?" Nearly three billion people live on less than $2 per day. I want to use the View Details

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53563 The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond By: Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru Abstract—Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

transforms them from "box-checkers" to "frame-makers." Frame-makers understand how important it is to attach the tools they create to C-level business goals, such as linking them to the quarterly business review. Frame-makers stay... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

15 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap

intention-action gap with tools such as effective marketing which communicates their sustainable practices in a recognizable and transparent way. The CEM project offers a unique insight into the issue from the perspective of leading... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books

the realities of China today, this book presents Perkowski’s insights about the challenges and potential of Western involvement in the country’s great expansion. Turn Strategy into Action: Strategic Project Management Tools for Leaders... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA

encouraged to contact their faculty members to discuss their plans for absences following the birth. Faculty understand, of course, that plans may change. All absences resulting from the birth should be reported into the Student Absence Notification View Details

01 Sep 2018
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The True Value of a Tweet

So instead of using it to persuade and project your message onto people, Twitter can be a tool to learn about your customers, as another way to get information about what they’re thinking. SG: And also new product ideas: Are people... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

29 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact

energy investment group. Those two seemingly separate worlds coalesced into one; I was able to use the tool kit I’d built over the years from my private sector experience in consulting and traditional banking in a space where I felt I was... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

studies and intimate conversations with startup founders, LTV students examine management challenges in early-stage startups and the range of experiments that are conducted during this phase of development. The course takes the perspective that a startup is an... View Details

Howard R. Hughes, Jr.

Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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Mariama Keita

to bring to market, what prices to set." The Business, Government and International Economy (BGIE) course has been "life changing," says Mariama. "There can be a pessimistic attitude in Africa. But learning about fiscal policies gives us access to... View Details

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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

it seem available." 22 Photographers explored inventive interpretations of subjects for artistic and commercial ends. These aspirations coincided with those of advertisers who understood the value of high art as a persuasive sales tool... View Details

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