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- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan Aart Scholte, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
request, the traditional Class Day address format. The blunt, veteran CEO with the Massachusetts accent and his unabashed, youthful interlocutor - a Cambridge University graduate possessing formidable verbal agility and a rapier wit - put... View Details
- 10 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: EF Education First
opportunity to travel the world while helping others do the same. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do you hire for? Harvard Business School graduates have been instrumental in the success of EF’s North American... View Details
- Web
MBA Program at Harvard Business School: 1963 - 1970 | Baker Library
Student Life. Harvard Business School. olvwork688134 Group of MBA students studying, ca. 1965. HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Student Life. Harvard Business School. Female students still lived in Cambridge at the Radcliffe Graduate... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
K. Kazanjian, 192-210. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006 Abstract To remain successful, companies must respond to the challenge of achieving continual internal or core growth. In this book chapter, we suggest that vendors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
James Reinhart
disastrous. For James Reinhart, HBS MBA 2009, the foray into online resale began as a virtual swapping platform for grownups looking for a way to empty their closets and upgrade their wardrobes. The idea came to Reinhart when he was at HBS and living in a tiny View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
United States Automobile Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003). Collins, Robert M. More: The Politics of... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
each day I was able to take what I’d learned from class and apply it to real situations,” she says. “It was beyond the Socratic method---like learning how to fight in the ring with your opponent in there with you.” Running a company in New York while going to school... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition... View Details
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American Business . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Davis, George, and Glegg Watson. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream . Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982. Delton, Jennifer A. Racial Integration in Corporate America , 1940–1990. New... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
example, the city of Cambridge has height restrictions on what people can build. Even when there’s clearly more than enough demand, developers aren’t allowed to build up. The same thing is happening in California, especially in San... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
to the CIC as "innovation infrastructure," bringing together money, talent, and ideas in one place. Founded in Cambridge in 1999, CIC has since grown to become one of the largest concentrations of entrepreneurial activity in the world and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
distributor. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807012 PublicationsForging Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics Authors:Alnoor S. Ebrahim and Edward Weisband Publication: U.K.: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2020
- Case
Breakthroughs at Blueprint Medicines
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Susie L. Ma
Precision medicine company Blueprint Medicines was building a successful track record for bringing drug therapies to market 40% faster than average. The company had spent $40 million dollars and two years building a compound library that became its drug development... View Details
Keywords: Precision Medicine; Cancer; Biotechnology; Drug Development; Strategy; Expansion; Science; Genetics; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Management; Growth and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Cambridge; Massachusetts
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy Giusti, and Susie L. Ma. "Breakthroughs at Blueprint Medicines." Harvard Business School Case 820-001, June 2020.
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
effort. With MIT, the Broad Institute and the Whitehead Institute as centers of biomedical research, the Kendall Square section of Cambridge has become a fertile birthing ground for startups. McGuire has overseen more than 50 successful... View Details
- Web
Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
the board of directors at the Cambridge Settlement House, which provided social services to the urban poor and campaigned for social justice, and she volunteered at Jobs Clearing House, a job placement program for African Americans. In... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
Subverting Career Trajectories
As part of our "HBS Takeaways" series we’re interviewing some of our second year students before they embark on the next chapter of their lives. Clay Wiske attended Columbia University and the University of Cambridge before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
view. Born in England and trained as an economist at Cambridge University, he moved to Brussels to work with the European Commission, the governing body of the newly formed European Union. He later became EU director of Transatlantic... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
economics, Harf decided to become a businessman. He had recently married the love of his life, Mechtild, whom he had been dating for 10 years. The pair moved to Cambridge so he could attend HBS. "We had a fantastic time. Madly in love,... View Details