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20 Apr 2022
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How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One

A few months after graduating from HBS, I drove my Buick halfway across the country and moved to a state I’d never visited. When I arrived in Oklahoma, I became CEO of a union heating and air business. I soon discovered that HBS prepared me to lead a View Details

19 Jul 2021
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Getting the 264,000 Foot View Of the Space Industry

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

on-campus recruiting for Google from 2014 until she left Google to join a startup in 2020. What is an HBS career coach? An HBS career coach is an experienced business professional trained to guide students and alumni through their career... View Details

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

Business School Supplement 508-051 508-051 Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508051 Engineering a Renaissance: The Launch of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management for "Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM Adoption" with James Westphal and Steve Shortell ( Administrative Science Quarterly , June 1997). 1994 Paul A.... View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

U V W X Y Z # A A.T. Kearney, Inc. Abbott ABILITY Network, Inc. Abpro Accolade Adimab, Inc. Advance Technological Radiology PA Advantage Healthcare Inc. Advocates Aetna Agilent Technologies AGION Technologies Aledade Alkermes Allen Institute for Brain View Details

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

Career Coach

Kendall Borges

Kendall Borges (HGSE ’16) is the Director of Alumni and Student Programming in Career & Professional Development at Harvard Business School. In her role, she leads high-impact programming to support both students and alumni throughout... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

and analytics with sound managerial judgment. If you look at the settings in which Max and I have been involved, it’s not that organizations weren’t using data; they were. But the economics and behavioral science tool kit can help View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

August 2011
Supplement

InnoCentive.com (C)

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein

InnoCentive.com enables clients to tap into internal and external solver networks to address various business issues. This case focuses on the outcome of InnoCentive's decision to post challenges related to environmental issues created by the Gulf Oil Spill. It reviews... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Networks; Decisions; Outcome or Result; Pollutants; Natural Disasters; Natural Environment; Japan

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26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

the overall effects of fitness and wanted to share what I felt with others – what better way than teaching? My Double Life While still at my full-time job at the firm (though in a different role), I became a Flywheel instructor and... View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

plant kingdom. What is Nucleate Eco? What are the requirements to apply? Sutton: Nucleate Eco is a student-lead, no equity, accelerator for student companies focused on applying life sciences principles to... View Details

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

equivalent amount of food, steel, or information? If much recent growth has resulted from real estate and financial bubbles, will slower growth really have as profound an impact on our way of life and the corporate View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

speaks to Ranjay Gulati—his former college classmate and his eventual HBS Executive Education professor—about how Panera has faced the myriad challenges of the pandemic, the leadership values that guide him, and how a deep, personal loss became a pivotal part of his... View Details

2015
Report

The Global STEM Paradox

By: Mark R. Kramer, Kate Tallant, Amanda Oudin Goldberger and Flynn Lebus

Despite increasing numbers of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates worldwide, STEM jobs remain unfilled in developed and developing countries. Through an exploration of the root causes of this global STEM paradox, FSG offers an answer to this... View Details

Keywords: STEM Labor; Science; Information Technology; Engineering; Jobs and Positions; Global Range

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

case-based examples brought to life by industry-leading experts from companies like General Mills, Medtronic, and Levi Strauss & Co. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent View Details

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.

“We better get off this plane ASAP,” Deborah belted out as our plane skittered to a halt at SFO. Deborah re-read the text from our fertility clinic: “We misread your chart. Your sodium levels are dangerously low. Get to a hospital soon. This could be View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

Government; Hanne Collins, a PhD student at Harvard Business School; and Frances Chen, associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. The paper was published in the September 2020 edition of the journal View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

boundaries of firms. And it also studies the development of British industrial science in universities and efforts to promote innovation through the formation of industry clusters. Overall, the evidence supports the traditional story of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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