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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
courses, reaching more than 29,000 participants in fiscal 2020 and generating positive cash from operations and an operating surplus for the second consecutive year. To help college students become fluent in the language of business and... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not systematically attract those who are best prepared at college... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, and students from low-income communities are seven times less likely to graduate from View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way through high school and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
to donate his or her body to Science Care (a for-profit entrepreneurial venture located in Arizona) or to the University of Arizona's College of Medicine. Why the donor might chose to select one program over another is an empirical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
brings in thousands of local schoolchildren. The MCA recently received the Arts & Business Council of Chicago's "On Target" award for its "Stir It Up" college outreach program. The museum also plays host to a teen apprentice program as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
import-export firm in his native St. Croix. Sent to America for college in 1772 by local leaders who saw his potential, he soon joined the revolutionary army and was tapped for service on General George Washington's staff. Among... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
programs Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive within me to learn and absorb as much as I could. Leslie Pico A small business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
test-takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy change that removed penalties for wrong answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
ideas. Chua repeated the study with college students, asking them to come up with a new advertising campaign for a fruit drink; again, those with more contacts in different cultures had the most creative ideas. In both cases, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
creating an environment that's beneficial to both." Lacking the pressures of a major label, such as overhead costs and stockholder expectations, independent labels sometimes have greater flexibility than the majors to nurture cutting-edge talent. Paul Knutson Just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
life “a credible example of how an individual, with faith, hard work, love, and support, can achieve her purpose.” — GE Brendan Kennealey Inner-city school founder, social entrepreneur, dreamer Kennealey Brendan Kennealey began to hone his skills as a social... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
leadership—had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging one new restaurant opening a day for the past five years, in 2010 Yum ran over 3,600 restaurants in 650 cities and employed over 250,000 people, many of them View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
to take that risk with my portfolio because I'm taking a risk as it is. You just put a new level of risk in this whole thing." I have written a case called Zipcar, about how two women raised venture money. One of them, Robin Chase, had three children. She had a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
explorer Ernest Shackleton. During the year, the group reached more than 29,000 asynchronous participants across the portfolio. As part of its pandemic response, HBSO provided its Credential of Readiness (CORe) program at a discount to more than 1,000 View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
age of innovation. There are people all over the country in universities and colleges who are actually doing research and conducting randomized control trials to determine what solutions work and what solutions don't work. And that's... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
graduated from the School in 1926. We understand that he has been an active member of the Harvard Club of Tokio [sic] and observe that his alumni dues are paid through October, 1942! War Notes Winter 1955 Married college sweetheart and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry