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HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations &... View Details

23 Jun 2003
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Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

managing the relationship. "Rather than going after the entire volume, break up the needs into different parts, and try to initiate a relationship using one component, selling only this one component," he advised. For a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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held on campus. “I fell in love with it immediately," she says. “At first I wondered, ‘How on earth do you learn through the case method?' But I was enthralled; something about it helps you develop confidence, whether you're View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media

March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler

In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details

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18 Feb 2019
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What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Georgia: SE Summer Fellow Niki Patel (MBA 2024) Niki Patel 14 Aug 2023 Investing in Education to Help Meet the Needs of Learners Everywhere: SE Summer Fellow Angel Njenga (MBA 2022) Angel Njenga 05 Aug 2021 INITIATIVES focus on societal... View Details

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Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University, 1937-1970

Feeds: Alumni Baker Library New Books Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS Working Knowledge MBA Admissions Harvard Business School Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

programs. However, when the first of his three children, Joey, was born with cystic fibrosis in 1974, O'Donnell knew he would soon have to move into the private sector. The initial medical bill alone, after all, was for $32,000. By 1976,... View Details

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

HBS will establish an Initiative focused on advancing racial equity . The new Initiative will serve as the center of gravity for research, course development, convening, and outreach related to race in... View Details

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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve institutional processes,... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

the lives of most White people much worse. Take single-family zoning. Legislating that only single-family homes of a certain size can be built together was a radical experiment that initially aimed to separate Black home buyers from White... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

Michigan, and graduated from Oberlin College, initially wasn't sure she'd like living in Manhattan. Now she is perfectly at home in the West Village with her husband (and former HBS sectionmate) Nicholas McGrane, a specialist in private... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

felt I no longer needed the cash buffer. I used 75% of my savings to pay down my student loans. In the two years since graduating, I have repaid the loans more aggressively than I initially planned. I had expected to take a minimum of 7... View Details

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

initiative to build a sizeable collection of images documenting the company and its subsidiaries around the country. Photographers included exceptional artists such as Russell Aikins, Robert Yarnall Richie, Fred Korth, and Fritz Henle. A... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

general who was a wine buff. In 1970, after nine years as a fighter pilot, he traded his cockpit for a seat at HBS, where he gained the credentials and expertise to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. Initially rebuffed by financiers on... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

race to Demo Day where teams pitch their ventures to investors and entrepreneurs. Read More Rock 100 Initiative Rock Center support for entrepreneurs extends far beyond graduation. The Rock 100 initiative... View Details

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

can only be justified, if the rise in exports enhances the effect of other policies that ultimately increase competitiveness. If that happens the initial export subsidies can be eliminated over time. These policies are thus like... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

requested at the time of the initial gift in terms of the types of solicitation processes that the donor would be receptive to was adhered to for many years. However, time and circumstances ultimately changed the preferences of both the... View Details