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Africa - Global Activities 2020
and then returned to their home country to work at Peak Investment Capital—a possibility enabled by the HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO: Africa) they each received. Above all, they share a passion for wanting to build businesses in... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
African nations, as in the United States, a key role of government is the funding, construction, and maintenance of the public infrastructure that benefits everyone. This obviously is not being accomplished to an adequate degree by government alone in either place. Why... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
sensors, like smart watches, and telemedicine, which is a companion to these sensors. Both have become more powerful and more acceptable to consumers and to the health care industry, which has resisted these innovations for a long time. I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
is in charge of Organic & Non-GMO Product Marketing at Indigo Agriculture And Eisen has just launched Plant Snacks. Given all this change, building consumer trust is critical. As Conklin observed, “there is so much misinformation out... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
How to Create a Presence Without Being Present
of MBA resumes. Reach out to student clubs Not surprisingly, HBS MBAs assume a great deal of responsibility for their own outreach. You can meet them in the middle by building relationships with the HBS clubs relevant to your industry.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
meetings to where people spend time: Facebook.” Today, San Jose is piloting livestreaming meetings on Facebook Live, resulting in “twenty times the amount of engagement.” Building on the success of the videos, Henry led a partnership with... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School
career building activities. For me personally, the biggest benefits I’ve derived from the WSA have been social; I’ve loved meeting highly intelligent, fun, friendly women who share similar career ambitions. As a member of the WSA board, I... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to retrofit buildings to reduce... View Details
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
started out exploring options ranging from Venture Capital to activist hedge fund investing and joined several clubs like the Entrepreneurship and VC/PE club to learn more about these industries and start to build a network. When it came... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
for yourself, how buildings can have an impact on our health, and how leaders can have an impact on today's biggest issues. A list of the titles, authors, and their abstracts are included below. American Business History: A Very Short... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
have to be a success story. If your company is doing a turnaround and you want to hire smart MBAs to help right the ship, that will draw students in.” HBS students are eager to make an impact and to join leaders with a genuine purpose.... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Tariro Goronga
what? Do I hang in there and do something I don’t like for forty years, or do I cut my losses and start all over again?” Tariro chose the latter path, but made sure to build flexibility into his career plan. “I was looking for something... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
nascent company could find enough smart people in Indianapolis to build the business, a notion that infuriated Hicks, a lifelong Hoosier and staunch supporter of the Indianapolis business scene. “My... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
apply so that more will be admitted, above the 25 to 30 percent that typically are found in an entering MBA class. Bulletin: Besides women, who else would you encourage to apply to HBS? Fadule: Put simply, we want smart people with the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
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Ruzwana Bashir
knew I wanted to work with smart people and learn about how to build a business.” After graduating, Bashir moved to London, joined Goldman Sachs and later the Blackstone Group with the intention of a... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
"I want them to think about government service," he says. "Whether you like the government or don't like the government, somehow we need to get more smart people into the government." “I can't tell you how difficult... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
Chinese steamed bun with hickory-smoked pulled pork, pickled daikon relish, and Asian plum barbecue sauce. How to: Build a Brand Know what you want to build. “Food, music, and art are the three pillars of our brand. Those are things that... View Details
Keywords: April White