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21 Aug 2024

HBS Information Session in Boston

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details

Samuel I. Newhouse

At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

08 Jun 2017

HBS Women’s Information Session in New York City

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective students who want to learn about the community of women at HBS and the MBA Program. The event is designed for women, but all are welcome. The event... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Year in Review 2017

edited by April White; illustrations by Jonathan Carlson RETAIL: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping MANUFACTURING: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech ENERGY: A Future of Lower Energy Prices MEDIA: Courting the Cord-Cutters EDUCATION: Investing in the Next... View Details

12 Sep 2024
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Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

approximately 600,000 citizens and 68,000 businesses, private homes account for 50% of the combustible waste provided. Waste is also occasionally imported from countries as far away as Italy, as the environmental impact of waste incineration at Amager Bakke is more... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 Jul 2024

HBS Information Session in New York

We are excited to invite prospective applicants to an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed to help you learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The session will include an admissions presentation... View Details

23 May 2024

HBS Information Session in Zurich

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details

31 May 2023

HBS Information Session in Warsaw

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include a fireside chat with Professor Paul A. Gompers and... View Details

31 Jul 2017

HBS Information Session in Johannesburg

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation by Chad Losee, Director of... View Details

25 Jul 2017

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington D.C.

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are particularly encouraged to attend. The... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

HBS Clubs and Associations

completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

07 Oct 2016

HBS Military Prospective Student Day

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA), MPSD is an opportunity for members of the military to experience Harvard Business School. Throughout the all-day event you will have the opportunity to visit a class and interact... View Details

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

closed question–based surveys. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50727 June 2016 Journal of Finance Local Currency Sovereign Risk By: Du, Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We introduce a new measure of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan

Having grown up in Pakistan, Tarim Wasim (MBA 2005) and other Boston-based students and professionals started the Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) in 2003 to support the best local nonprofits. Wasim, a Baker Scholar at... View Details

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Di Bai

Growing up with parents who worked for China's state-owned enterprises, Di Bai has personally witnessed the transition from a planned to an open-market economy. "For local companies, the change has been difficult," Di says. To... View Details

22 Jun 2023
News

Book Smart

David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was particularly keen on using it.... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

On a Mission to Have an Impact

travel. Allow them to really feel like they are living like a local and connecting them with people from local communities as they travel, to get a much better sense of what places are really about. “I think... View Details

16 Jul 2024

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington, D.C.

admissions panel followed by a fair to learn more about each graduate program and meet local alumni. Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30 PM. We hope to see you there! View Details

09 Feb 2023

HBS Information Session in Lisbon

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to meet View Details

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