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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

semester, culminating with an integrative final assignment that through a peer review process can lead to the development of a new case study for the class. Course Modules Introduction to Social... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)

On track: “There’s a feeling of precariousness in the immigrant mindset, so having a sensible, certain career is very big. That’s probably why my little sister is a doctor, and I studied law at Cambridge.” Shifting gears: “I think we all... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Alex Roth

For four years, Alex Roth studied chemistry at Oxford. But instead of following the traditional path to the PhD, Alex took a position with Procter & Gamble where held positions in Finance and Marketing. "I want to marry science... View Details

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Harvard Business School

curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and... View Details

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated instrumental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2014
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Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan

2014 the JRC organized an immersion for 18 HBS faculty who attended a conference, participated in a symposium, and met with local business executives in Tokyo. The experience established a solid foundation for future research and has already resulted in one View Details

01 Dec 2014
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The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

ability to enhance the discussions that lie at the heart of the case method. Participant-centered learning depends on the active involvement of every student, each of whom brings a unique background and perspective to the mix of voices... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

22 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

Panel on Pedagogical Innovations in MBA Courses

School. These innovations include subject matter innovations such as courses that focus on globalization and green businesses. They also include innovations in how courses are structured and taught, including greater integration between courses and alternatives to the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Education

11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

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John Clayton

John Clayton speaks French, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish, and his resume looks less like a CV than an atlas: He has studied in Bologna, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and worked on the sustainable-development portfolio of the World Bank on... View Details

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

in the MBA program's elective curriculum. Bussgang recently published a case study on Codecademy's success to date, as well as the challenges it faces relative to future growth. He discusses that View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

"The 'crucible' can help someone become better or more effective but the truly great were naturals." Steffen Nevermann stated the case for the affirmative, but cautioned, "To create crucibles from which leaders may emerge,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Apr 2006
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The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Diversity on Boards - Alumni

Joly, Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan Case Studies (should the URL go to HBR, HBP?) Strive Asset Management By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia. Harvard Business School View Details

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Baker Library brings the past, present, and future of business to life. | Baker Library

Baker Library Baker Library brings the past, present, and future of business to life. Search Popular Destinations Databases Case Requests Study Spaces Today's Hours All Hours Working Knowledge Baker Library... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

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Faculty & Research | MBA

Faculty & Research Our faculty are world-renowned practitioners and researchers who use their experience to bring to life leadership lessons and challenges as they orchestrate a case discussion. 272 f ull-time faculty 261 new View Details

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge. While organizational View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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