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Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care, Q2 - Course Catalog

make tangible progress on their business plans and seek advice from course mentors. Q: Can I take the class if I just have an idea, but I have not started yet? A: Innovating in Health Care (Q1) is a... View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

the men’s basketball team and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in finance. While at St. John’s, Laitsas loved stepping onto the court at Madison Square Garden in New York City, a place he describes as “the Mecca of sports.” At the same time, he found himself drawn to... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

Foundation. Through these conversations, she was able to discuss her interests in Dick’s Sporting Goods’ social impact work and their brand marketing. Key Learnings & Advice As Krantz reflected on her summer internship with Dick’s... View Details

Keywords: Retail

23 Jun 2021
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How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

the advice I’d received and it gave me pause, I knew what I wanted.” Exploring the Startup Landscape in Africa Well before the COVID-19 pandemic found her finishing out the 2019-2020 school year in Ghana with her family, Nyantekyi-Owusu... View Details

26 Jan 2017
News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

and Organization The course meets every other week so that students can provide updates on their progress and receive feedback from the teaching team and their peers. During the weeks when we do not meet in-person, students are expected to make tangible progress on... View Details

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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 07 Jul 2023 Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting... View Details

16 Mar 2022
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Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

seeking out Investment Banking internships that paved the way to his first full-time Investment Banking Analyst role at UBS Investment Bank. After UBS, Laitsas spent five more years in investment banking, culminating in a Vice President,... View Details

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set of prescriptive advice about the topic to practitioners, and why (despite its recurring nature) that advice seems to have limited... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2016
News

Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs

and Lisa Falzone, cofounder and CEO of Revel Systems on a panel discussion entitled “Entrepreneurship: Gender, Adversity and Success” at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston on Monday. Hyman recalled that her foray into seeking venture... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Birchbox; Rent the Runway; Hello Alfred; Retail Trade; Finance

01 Oct 1998
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Value Added

slivers of the value chain," he says. "Firms will then leverage that specialized expertise - in credit-card processing, for instance - in world markets." And inevitably, as business evolves and industries undergo fundamental change, companies will continue to View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

As a child, Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) had a big dream – to one day design engines for Ferrari. While naysayers told him to be realistic, Memme took that advice to mean he would need to pour himself into this goal for it to become a reality.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

14 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise

roles on the HBS recruiting platform, but most of them required previous experience in either management consulting or investment banking, neither of which I had. While business school can be a conduit to your life’s work, it’s not always immediate. However, it’s... View Details

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

(with Sumantra Ghoshal), Michael Porter, and Pankaj Ghemawat. “I enjoy the variety and intellectual challenge of the problems that managers confront” More seasoned managers seeking pragmatic guidance on day-to-day decision making can turn... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

interactions, Frost and Norton are also exploring the social implications of people seeking relationships online and the possibility for technology to influence the initial tone and trajectory of relationships. One obstacle they noticed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

appears to owe more to management fads than to serious underperformance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54369 Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M.... View Details