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HBS Fund Council - Alumni

Volunteer HBS Fund Many alumni dedicate their time and energy to securing donations for the HBS Fund, which plays a vital role in sustaining the School’s core priorities and fueling new ideas and initiatives. HBS Fund Council The HBS Fund... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

co-workers can help those employees improve. “When you are exposed to different ideas or a different way of working, it can change your own behavior,” says Christopher Stanton, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

pivot into venture capital and impact investing to ensure that communities like mine – Black, queer, and disabled – have access to capital to build products and services that include us by design. However, starting a company with an idea... View Details

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Bradley built and led the enormously successful firms that emerged: the Advisory Board Company (ABC) and the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). In 1999, having sold CEB, Bradley purchased the Atlantic, the monthly magazine that has explored American View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

organizations fail to train new members and pass knowledge down. Business leaders have an opportunity to create a new vision for working that values ideas and innovation, but only if they can take what they've learned and look forward—and... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

anything at HBS. I came in with a plan and an idea of who I wanted to be post-HBS, but giving myself the time and space to explore, ask questions, and try new things turns out to be the best thing I ever did! HEALTH CARE Rhea Choudhury... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

corporate strategies and business execution, as well as what CEOs and boards can learn from successful and unsuccessful activist interventions. Using a mix of cases, guest lectures, and discussions with activist investors and corporate executives, the course will bring... View Details

13 Jul 2021
Blog Post

A View from the Horizon

probably what I’d do, too. But my sister had a different idea for my future. She pushed me to go to college instead—and I listened—which is how I ended up studying accounting at Boston College. But even though I was on a path different... View Details

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

stores were sold out of fresh food. I first learned of this from a classmate, Shyamli, who reposted the story and asked if anybody had ideas about how to help. But then more stories and experiences started to come into sight. My mom told... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

e-commerce. The grocery and packaged food spaces were untouched and opportune for e-commerce applications. He shared that exploring a space and carving out an idea requires you to seek out feedback from various perspectives. Acquiring... View Details

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond. The following excerpt describes strategies and tactics to overcome another party's counterproductive behavior and keep the deal on track. These are ideas that... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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VCPE Database Comparison

at 10K). Nice Idea Generation screen area to show use cases of Cap IQ. However, interface is not intuitive View Details

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History - Entrepreneurship

businesses. Most graduates wait until they have a high potential idea they are truly passionate about. Often, such ideas come through in-depth experience in a market and exposure to unsatisfied customer... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

22 May 2018
Blog Post

How to Engage a Search Firm

percentage of available positions are filled in this manner. Here are some ways you can break through the barrier. If a firm has contacted you in the past, begin with them—they at least know about you. It is always a good idea to have a... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

studied had little idea of how they could make their time more productive. Sadun hopes that the information will be equally helpful for boards in evaluating the performance of their CEOs. "It's a way to monitor where the efforts of... View Details