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- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Lauren Burrows
opportunities and that the resources to explore and act on those opportunities were always within easy reach. I found myself impressed time and time again at the amount of time professors, classmates, career counselors and alumni were... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in US Communities
Keywords: by András Tilcsik & Christopher Marquis
- 09 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for... View Details
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
The HBS Community - Student Initiatives
If you were to ask students or alumni what the best thing about Harvard Business School is, they will almost always respond; “the people.” When we started at HBS in the fall of 2017, we found that our classmates – both in and out View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
Johann Farhat (MBA 2025) holds a Civil Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. After graduating, he spent three years in management consulting at Strategy& in Dubai before moving to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Dating at HBS
fiancé Drew in discussion group during their first year at HBS. We checked in with her to learn more about dating during business school, and how common it is for sparks to fly between classmates on campus. Do many people meet potential... View Details
- 2013
- Book
What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us—and... View Details
Keywords: Career Planning; Vocational Guidance; Job Satisfaction; Satisfaction; Personal Development and Career; Customization and Personalization
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
of both schools from day one. You spend your first year at HKS, your second year at HBS, and your third year... View Details
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
desires (e.g., spending instead of saving money, eating junk food instead of health food). The should-self, on the other hand, prefers to behave in a way that will maximize... View Details
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
averages implies that a company with a bad year would usually improve the following year even without an inspection. "When they do find a problem, it's not entirely obvious that it wouldn't resolve itself... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
Greetings from HBS! My name is Siri and I am a second-year student and a candidate for the joint MBA/MPP program between HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Before graduate school, I worked for three View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
data-id=_/CWwxVO0Me28Q0etkq2Sr][/div] The most vulnerable businesses won’t last that long. They’ll need interest-free loans and other cash buffers to pay their workers and keep their storefronts while they wait out citywide lockdowns and school closures. After that,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava
curriculum itself, I realized that pursuing an MBA still aligned with my future career aspirations of building and growing companies. What job(s) did you work during your deferral? After gaining admission in... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
also not impact the LEAF's battery warranty.” And Claire estimated that “one Nissan LEAF can earn $3,000 to $8,000 per year for owners by plugging in and returning electricity to the grid during peak hours.”... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
Currently a Unilever brand can be found in one out of every two households in the world. This book has related how these brands came to form part of the everyday life View Details