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Your Career Resources - MBA

toward your professional development post-HBS. A Dedicated Team CPD is committed to helping both students and alumni realize their unique career visions. With more than 30 career education professionals on the team, we work together to... View Details

April 1998 (Revised June 1998)
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Road Well Traveled, The (Condensed)

Presents the conclusions of a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business concept, 2) sales and marketing, 3) finance, and 4) building a staff. The entrepreneurs surveyed include 24 in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

April 1996
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The Road Well Traveled: A Note on the Journeys of HBS Entrepreneurs

Based on a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business concept, 2) sales and marketing, 3) finance, and 4) building a staff. The entrepreneurs surveyed include 24 in consulting, 17 in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details

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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

from China, affording valuable networking opportunities to participants from the region and to those from organizations initiating or expanding their presence in China. An Exceptional Learning Experience When you participate View Details

July 2021
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Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich

By: Oliver P. Hauser, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak and Michael I. Norton

Four experiments examine how the lack of awareness of inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to... View Details

Keywords: Income Transparency; Income; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Knowledge; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Society; Policy

Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past several decades. In this study, we investigate the short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution... View Details

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

people. The world tells us how things have to be, and we don't push back enough. Q: Do you plan to use this book in the classroom? How would you like to see this book used in corporate organizations? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details

June 2010
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Digital Link (A)

The Digital Link (A) and (B) cases present the struggles of a small public technology company to get and maintain analyst and investor attention during the "dot-com boom" of the 1990's. The case can be used in MBA or Executive Education classes. The (A) case takes... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Institutional Investing; Public Ownership

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October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora

YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India

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Creating Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets has conducted lengthy and impactful interviews with business leaders across the emerging world on topics including innovation , leadership , family business , business and education , and business-government relations .... View Details

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South Asia - Global

business issues, helping to build intellectual capital on this important region. Further, the IRC is home to an HBS style classroom, allowing for regional business leaders to experience our faculty and the hallmark case study method in... View Details

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Finance - Faculty & Research

would be best to launch? Citation Educators Related Ivashina, Victoria, and Srimayi Mylavarapu. "Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity." Harvard Business School Case 225-044, November 2024. (Revised November 2024.)... View Details

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Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative website for scholarship information. Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience... View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

into the demographics of social entrepreneurs in the region as well as the common social objectives they aimed to address through their organizations. Keywords: Social Enterprise ; MENA ; Middle East ; North View Details

March 2018
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Summit Public Schools (A)

By: John J-H Kim and Aldo Sesia

Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students... View Details

Keywords: K-12; Online Learning; Virtual Learning; Blended Learning; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Business Model; Performance Improvement; Technology