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Careers Opportunities | Harvard Business School Online

Current Openings HBS Online is a fast-paced online learning initiative launched by Harvard Business School. To support our mission, we need people who want to dedicate their lives to the passionate pursuit View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly by View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

learned at HBS was delivered before he even arrived on campus. Feerick was accepted to the School under a deferred admissions program and encouraged to spend 18 months in the business world before joining his cohort. During that time,... View Details

Keywords: April White

31 Jan 2018
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Harvard Business School Announces New Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO: Africa)

19 Apr 2023

Harvard Business School Visit to Amherst College

campus life and the community that you can be a part of as an MBA student. You will begin to see how an MBA from Harvard Business School is not only possible, but can be the program that prepares you for... View Details

15 Feb 2012
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Will Business Step Up or Step Out?

25 May 2017
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Harvard Business School Honors Six Graduates with Alumni Achievement Award

25 May 2017
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Celebrating the 2017 Harvard Business School Commencement

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

2002 when it sold its HDD (hard disk drive) business to Hitachi and continued to build its position in consulting, where it had better odds of earning the kinds of returns it... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

October 2024
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On Why Women-owned Businesses Take More Time to Secure Microloans

By: Goran Calic, Moren Lévesque and Anton Shevchenko

Examining gender differences in business financing reveals important dimensions on which women- and men-owned businesses differ. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding gender differences in mobilizing resources, the role of time in business... View Details

Keywords: Microfinance; Gender; Financing and Loans; Equality and Inequality; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship

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Harvard Business School Campaign Boston Regional Event

Schedule of Events Saturday, April 26, 2014 Harvard Business School Campus 5:30 p.m. Registration | Shad Tent 6:00 p.m. HBS Campaign Presentation | Shad Hall 7:00 p.m. Connect and Engage | Shad Tent... View Details

2023
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Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

By: Meg Rithmire

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia

November–December 2020
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Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case

By: Robin Ely and David A. Thomas

Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Change; Trust

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26 Jun 2000
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A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2007
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Assessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System

By: John A. Davis

Describes how to asses and enhance an individual's bases, sources, and levels of power in a family business system. Relies on Franch and Raven's framework that identifies five bases of social power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert), describing how... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Situation or Environment; Power and Influence

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Entrepreneurial Finance: Finance and Business Strategies for the Serious Entrepreneur

By: Steven Rogers and Roza Makonnen

Whatever business you run or plan to launch, Entrepreneurial Finance provides the essential tools and know-how you need to build a sturdy foundation that will support it for many years to come.
Entrepreneurial Finance, Third Edition, offers potent... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financial Strategy; Business Strategy

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