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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

violate gift ban rules, create a local tax obligation for HBS, create an employment relationship, create a business presence or similar. This list is not inclusive and each payment will be analyzed on a case by case basis. The final... View Details

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

recommended. One was making naloxone available over the counter. That's the overdose reversal drug. Wanted to give wide availability to that drug. And then the second thing that we recommended was a substantial improvement in what's called the PDMP, that's a... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

successful online marketplace Care.com. Marcelo, the fifth of six children, was raised in a tight-knit family. Her parents, who eloped in their late teens, did not fall into stereotypical gender roles. “My father was the one who stood by... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Affinity Groups | Employment

Participation in staff affinity groups is open to all and supports our Institutional commitments focused on fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture for all members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) community. Objectives &... View Details

23 Nov 2020
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We Rise

Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment, investors are necessarily more focused... View Details

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

1.18 Field Global Capstone 1.0 Academic Information & Policies FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) is a semester-long course offered in the Required Curriculum (RC) Year that requires students to build on what they’ve learned so far and apply it to real-world View Details

06 Sep 2005
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When Product Variety Backfires

slightly different than the other? It's enough to give a shopper, well, a headache. The belief that variety is good "is not always true," argues Harvard Business School professor John Gourville in "Overchoice and Assortment... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

20 May 2025
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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value

a summer internship, even though the company had never hosted an MBA intern before. From Inspiration to Initiative Jessica reached out directly to the company, proposing a way she could contribute. “I actually guessed the founder’s email using an View Details

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

Career Tools & Resources Students gain the tools they need for their internship and full-time search, as well as an in-depth library of resources surrounding ones professional development. Harvard Business School (HBS) Career &... View Details

21 May 2025
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Mentorship in Action: When an HBS Student Proposes a Project

never hosted an MBA intern before. From Inspiration to Initiative Jessica reached out directly to the company, proposing a way she could contribute. “I actually guessed the founder’s email using an online email verifier,” she said.... View Details

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Hiroshi Mikitani

richest person in Japan. His skills as an entrepreneur became legend in his home country and around the world. Given the challenges entrepreneurs face in Japan—a dearth of venture capital, daunting government regulations and the aforementioned View Details

16 Nov 2021
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Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

population buys online and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of benefits,” Dzodan shared about his business thesis. “The model we built for Facily is that we let people get together... View Details

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

Four businesses had, by 2012, grown to dominate the infrastructure that all firms rely on to reach online customers. Will the balance of power among the four persist, will one take command at the expense of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

forecasts, and business news that are related to emerging markets. ... View Details

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Hiring Process | Employment

Hiring Process Harvard is a large organization, employing 15,000 employees. To simplify hiring, each major business unit or school is responsible for its own. The following are details regarding the Harvard View Details

25 May 2023
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Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

research from Harvard Business School faculty and Harvard Business Review contributors. They are designed to help organizations think through the details of their interview process to achieve their... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Past Issues - Alumni

& A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani Complete Table of Contents February 2000 No Place Like Home America's Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business Financial Services 24/7 The Emergence... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

kids’ high school. “It was a business club that evolved into a mentoring program,” says Mallory. “I wanted to do something a little different, and specifically help underserved people in our community.” Mallory started looking at colleges... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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