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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
itch. This year, for the first time, the program expands to four individuals whose lives and experiences show what different roads the entrepreneurial journey can take. “Students are hungry for the kind of perspective they can get from... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get there View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
clubs get exclusive access to our corporate sponsors - top investment banks, consulting firms, technology companies, and general management companies - more than one week early. This year, we hosted our first ever virtual Diversity Career... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
solely a product problem. NB: I imagine that doing a good job of picking that mainstream market is a function of the entrepreneur's own experience in an industry and his or her intuition about the future. Lassiter: Certainly in the cases... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School during the war, HBS instituted a number of programs with the military. From 1941 to 1943, for example, the Quartermaster Corps set up a Reserve Officers Training Corps at HBS to train officers in the preparation of military supplies, the View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark that became the Voice Project.... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
research and courses on sustainable cities, infrastructure, real estate, and his most recent collaboration and co-authored book on Healthy Buildings with Dr. Allen. It is our hope that this SIP serves as the first step among many in... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
developed markets are looking to expand around the globe. The course will provide institutional understanding as well as apply strategic and analytic tools to make important decisions. Course Content and Organization: The first module... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
you put together. The basic motivating pressures for change inside the boardroom, I think, should be, "How do we do a better job? And to do a better job we've got to use the limited time we have efficiently, and we've got to get the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
in the developing world, Jeffrey Ballinger was the first to criticize Nike's labor policies in Asia. When he arrived in Indonesia in 1988, the country's daily minimum wage was about $0.86. By 1997, it had tripled to just over two dollars.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
regard, Aiken feels that women often face a different challenge than men because they are too often "put into staff positions rather than line management jobs in order to 'protect their success,'" which, she adds,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
pondering the best way to spend the summer between my first and second years, I decided early-on that I wanted to see what life was like with a .gov email address. Further, I wanted to find a job that would... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
thus far has been my section retreat during the first semester (shout-out to Section B!). Having a weekend to get to know 90+ new friends outside the classroom made me feel more at home at HBS. Before attending HBS, every student I talked... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
Subverting Career Trajectories
alternatives out there for us—otherwise we wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here in the first place. The toughest part of HBS for me has been reminding myself that although the MBA feels like a detour in the short-term, in the... View Details
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Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
said. But both statements presented problems: First, she’d been told earlier that she was having a girl and, after weeks of fantasizing, had even picked out a name. Oishi suddenly remembered a moment during the first procedure when the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
young venture's chances of successfully reaching maturity. Indeed, even annual growth measures may be too aggressive for certain opportunities. Align Behaviors To Your Growth Plan George suggests leaders think of growth along four dimensions. The View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
first number mentioned in a negotiation often has a big impact on subsequent talks. It's nice to get the benefit of that "anchor" if the number is in the right ballpark, but if you're unsure what the range might be in a likely... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
on their experience in offices that would prepare them for the presidency, and how they became president. A filtered president is one with a high amount of relevant experience, an unfiltered one with little or no such domain experience. George Washington, as the View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
asking that question through research on the controversial issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), agricultural products that are genetically altered to increase yield, incorporate pesticide properties, or exhibit other beneficial qualities. (Calgene's Flavr... View Details