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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

leads BiGS’s efforts to build a strong intellectual community of scholars studying business’ role in society and supports the development of new research initiatives at BiGS. Sarah Gazzaniga Programming Manager Sarah Gazzaniga serves as... View Details

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author Health Care View Details

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

opportunities for me in terms of learning and contacts in Boston,” he shares. Sasago also found support in Boston’s Japanese business community and from fellow ramen enthusiast Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020), who became his business partner. During his first-year summer... View Details

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Global Activities 2020

including the launch of his fashion e-commerce company, Darza. Immersion Offers Students Insight into Development in Sri Lanka In the School’s first immersion in Sri Lanka, HBS students and faculty learned firsthand about China’s Belt and Road View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Initiative Leadership Robin J. Ely Organizational Behavior 13 results Related Faculty Lynda M. Applegate 9 results Jill J. Avery Marketing Julie Battilana Organizational Behavior 21 results Max H. Bazerman Negotiation, Organizations &... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Unrestricted 8% Other 7% Special Initiatives 6% Research 5% Building Operations Consistent with the long-term goal of preserving the value of the endowment in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable stream of available... 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

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and Latino heritage, LASO... View Details

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

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Business in Global Society - Alumni

Institute for Business in Global Society , which is accelerating and amplifying the School’s work on issues at the intersection of business and society. An Ambitious New Institute Professor Debora Spar explains the goals and initial... View Details

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History - Entrepreneurship

yearlong program supports 20-25 Rock Summer Fellow teams with up to $1,500 in seed capital, matched mentors, and facilitated workshops as they race to Demo Day where teams pitch their ventures to investors, entrepreneurs, and their classmates. Read More Rock 100 View Details

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

01 Jun 2024
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Competing in the Age of AI

Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
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A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

Tunnell recalls that “as a liberal arts undergrad, I wanted an education that drew ideas from a variety of disciplines, people, and perspectives.” Noting “it wasn’t easy to jump between schools” during his time at Harvard, Tunnell says he appreciates Dean Nitin... View Details

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

a freelancer who had worked for the Atlantic and was held hostage in Libya in 2011. Bradley gathered interested parties—Gillis’s parents, journalists, lawyers—to brainstorm how they could help, and their initial success led him to bring... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Dec 2020
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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

01 Feb 2021
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Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

involve initially educating the senior leaders, as these are the folks who can open the right doors, make the needed resources available, and align the D&I process with all of the business objectives. Additionally, leadership must be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Jul 2017
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It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

course was completed.) In their initial efforts to boost Pho Hoa’s revenues, increasing lackluster alcohol sales seemed a good place to start. But Raiche and Zhu quickly saw the problem: The servers (largely recent Vietnamese immigrants)... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

at Kwinters, the hot-dog stand in my local mall, where I learned how to cook five varieties of hot dogs, managed cash, cleaned the oily fryers and greasy hot-dog containers, and earned minimum wage. It was a great initial lesson in how,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Accountants initially viewed the new agency with suspicion. To gain their cooperation, Landis sagely positioned the SEC as an institution that would increase an accountant’s independence from corporate managers eager for favorable audits.... View Details

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