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Mellon Hall | About

renovations were undertaken to improve its facade. The building is now being used as an Executive Education residence. About the Name Andrew W. Mellon Mellon Hall is one of seven buildings named for secretaries View Details

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What are the best finance interview prep resources?

in the menu bar. Select Banking & Finance. Titles include Vault Guide to Finance Interviews and Vault Guide to Advanced Finance and Quantitative Interviews Street of Walls - Their training courses cover... View Details

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Drew Keller

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic system are being questioned.... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal Deposit Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false advertising Influence: Low 40 1940 s 19 Military spending explodes... View Details

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

(iStockphoto/Krle) Advocates for stakeholders—including employees, customers, suppliers, the “community,” and investors—have dominated the discussion of leadership and management over the past two decades. They believe that enlightened... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

entrepreneurship, 2. test potential start-up ideas, 3. develop your start-up while at school, and 4. access funding for their start-ups. If you're a climate entrepreneur, you can learn more and access more resources through the iLab's... View Details

04 Mar 2019
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What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

Zuboff puts it, “our lives are scraped and sold to fund their freedom and our subjugation, their knowledge and our ignorance about what they know.” “Surveillance capitalists are familiar to us... They regard users not as consumers but as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

24 May 2017
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John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan Stanley, Associate 1994 Joins St. Charles Borromeo Catholic... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to receive View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Morris Hall | About

prominent banker who funded the construction of Harvard Business School's original campus . The building is named for Robert Morris Jr. (1734-1806), a British-born merchant; signer View Details

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Global Activities 2020

China and Myanmar. 50 % Cases published in FY20 that were globally oriented 33 % MBA students in the Classes of 2021 and 2022 who are international, representing 81 countries 15 HBS global research centers and offices operating worldwide... View Details

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

The 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding last year stirred reflection about the country’s image, values, and position in the world among everyone from former diplomats to Hollywood actors. Despite efforts to portray Israel as modern and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Screening and Portfolio Tilts Engagement and Proxy Voting ESG Integration and Alpha Generation Sustainable Public Market Funds Featured Exercises Evaluate the ESG performance of various companies Match ESG... View Details

14 Oct 2014
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Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships

Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time” ( Journal of Marketing , 2012) with Thomas Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella. Julian De Freitas : Recipient View Details

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

the lab spaces and the virtual world, to spark and nurture breakthrough concepts that solve problems and improve lives. Gifts to the HBS Fund provide the flexible funding needed to launch and sustain... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Oftentimes an organization might be engaged in a partnership at one point or another, or be a member of an umbrella organization ... but it's not really a network approach... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
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Rating Better

Three finance professors have devised a new mutual fund rating system that appears to do a better job of separating fund managers whose performance reflects genuine ability... View Details

Keywords: Randolph Cohen; Lubos Pastor; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Alptug Yorulmaz We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement View Details

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