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How to Post | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

applications to the same organization. Organizations hiring more than one student should contact the Social Enterprise Initiative for appropriate framing of projects. Project selection is based entirely on... View Details

01 Oct 2014
Blog Post

A Summer Internship: Sparking Curiosity

choose classes of interest. I discovered a newfound curiosity in healthcare this summer and decided to change my course selection to include Healthcare IT. Since my project at Danaher brought me in close... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing

interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog

associates, or VC interns/scouts; (2) actively pursuing a VC job post-graduation; (3) having already secured a VC job post-graduation; or (4) starting their own VC fund. Note that one of the goals of the course is to expand access and inclusion to the field of venture... View Details

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William Donaldson | Baker Library

institutional fund manager required higher quality research on firms’ projected stock price performance than was available on Wall Street at the time. Bill and his partners Dan Lufkin and Richard Jenrette promptly launched DLJ to meet... View Details

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Statistical Resources - Research Computing Services

An introduction to Quasi-MLE Poisson An introduction to censored, truncated or selected data An introduction to survival analysis An introduction to count data models An introduction to GMM An introduction to Hausman-Taylor model An... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket

remake the traditional grocery store model. TakeOff’s micro fulfillment centers won’t host customers, so a supermarket-sized selection can be squeezed into a 90 percent smaller building footprint. And since mobile robots will retrieve... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research

have invested years in developing their careers and selecting an area on which to focus their research. People need predictability — not in the research ideas they pursue, but in basic human issues such as pay and employment. It may be... View Details

Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Generative AI for Business Leaders Course Number 1301 Professor Suraj Srinivasan Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project Course Overview Generative AI (GenAI) stands at the forefront of a technological revolution, poised to... View Details

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

simultaneously creating economic and societal value. Through project work with a diverse range of business partners, from established corporations to burgeoning startups, students will have an opportunity to gain practical insights into... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

from solar and wind farms. Project development of major transmission lines to handle alternative sources must intently focus on stakeholder alignment across public and private sectors to speed project... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech

22 Sep 2016
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Words and Pictures

photograph and provide editorial (and life) advice to the authors of the selected essays. The project has been integrated into the MBA curriculum: New students view and respond to a Portrait View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Jan 2020
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A Wider Frame

Portraiture Project launched, Coit (with a successful career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist behind him) was selected to be the project’s artist. Since then, he has contributed 26 portraits that... View Details

21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home

estimates indicate that global diaspora remittances amount to $550 billion a year. Homestrings investors choose from among funds or projects in Africa selected because they meet economic, social, and good... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Centennial Goes YouTube

cool Institutional Memory project that brings a whole new dimension to the HBS Centennial celebration. For NPR listeners, think StoryCorps comes to Soldiers Field, but with a twist. In addition to audio recordings, the View Details

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

10 Sep 2020
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Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

partners. Beginning with using machine learning to help select the healthiest embryo to transfer during IVF, the company hopes to eventually build a suite of tools to help fertility specialists deliver the best possible care to patients.... View Details

28 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo

HBS with a virtual event to invite students to learn more about the company and summer internship opportunities. From there, students are invited to apply and applications are reviewed by Shehata and a team of Product Managers. Selected... View Details

Keywords: Technology

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia