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15 Sep 2015
Blog Post

On the Road: HBS in Israel

school, and get to truly understand what an amazing place HBS is. In Israel, I continue in the same manner, and hope to see enthusiastic, unique individuals make their way to Boston to enrich the HBS program with their experience and... View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Medical Center Boston Children’s Hospital Brigham & Women’s Hospital Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chicago Prostate Center Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute Intermountain Healthcare Johns Hopkins Joslin Diabetes Center... View Details

30 Mar 2022
News

Giving Hope and Comfort

comfortable home in the Boston area, and their children didn’t want for material things. The Feingolds had long been active in their community—Jeff had volunteered for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island in college, and the... View Details

02 May 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

career after graduation. On the social front, I organized concert outings in Boston and embraced my DJ hobby by becoming our designated Section I DJ. These experiences not only energized me but also helped me gain unique perspectives that... View Details

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

cardinal preferences than the Boston mechanism independently of whether individuals can submit a complete or only a restricted ranking of the schools, and 2) subjects with a higher degree of risk aversion are more likely to play... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Science Complex—four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011—the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard's 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. New Management Skills Needed Both in the scale and scope... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

deserve. Martha Lagace is writer based in the Boston area.. Image credit: andresr - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Book Excerpt A Platform to Rule All Others From:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

Boston program and planning for its fourth class at the home office. The case should enable students to identify emerging challenges, evaluate Rock Health's funding model, debate the effectiveness of its incubation service, and assess its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

for assigning children to schools in Boston and New York and for facilitating exchanges of kidneys. Computers enable the design of "smart markets" that combine the inputs of users in complex ways: In kidney exchange, they run... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

retire and live through that transition.” That curiosity led to Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You. Coauthored with Lotte Bailyn of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Marcy Crary of Bentley University, and Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

for all local government employees in Ontario, Canada. Their portfolio of long-term, direct infrastructure investments is diversified across multiple sectors, including energy, transportation, and government-regulated services. Caelin's role prior to HBS was an... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

AASU Holds 25th Annual Conference "Our Silver Past and Golden Future" was the theme of the 25th annual Career/Alumni Conference of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), held January 30 to February 2 at HBS and the Boston Marriott... View Details

28 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni

year into his first post-HBS role at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Francis spoke with his manager about occasionally requiring extra turnaround time for certain tasks as a result of his Dyslexia. In response, BCG paired Francis with a... View Details

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at over $750 billion. McGuire... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More recently, Rhenisch, now a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

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Jeremy Andrus

the building on skateboards. When there’s overnight snow on the slopes of the nearby Wasatch Range, morning meetings are rolled back to accommodate the quest for fresh powder. And if you happen to visit Skullcandy on bring-your-dog-to-work day, be sure to give the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

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Commencement 2011 Address | About

As I stand here today, giving this Commencement address, I have to pinch myself to believe it is actually happening. When I came to the United States in 1984 to attend graduate school — at that other noted institution in Boston on the... View Details

March 2016 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop

On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details

Keywords: On-demand Economy; Sharing Economy; Technology Startup; Technology; Growth Strategy; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); California

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21 Sep 2016
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How HBS Changed My Life

Professor Clayton Christensen on how disruptive innovation is the causal mechanism behind growth and prosperity of nations. Without HBS, I would not have been able to develop the voice to speak at an event alongside fellow HBS alumnus and Global CEO of View Details

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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Account of the Credit Mobilier Investigation . New York: Continental Publishing Company, 1873. Full text available online with Google. Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads: A Study in the... View Details

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