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Bismah Rahmat
question – the GDP of Burkina Faso or the science behind cosmic inflation – and unequivocally, he’d know the answer. He did mental math faster than I could punch numbers into a calculator. In my father’s final days, his brain could no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
graduate of Harvard Law School and a former consultant in management and negotiation strategy, Price says that HBS is interested in developing "technologically appropriate" approaches that will reach an optimum number of people with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
"The intention of the fund is to look at women in leadership—in business and in civic life. Among other things, we want to help increase the number of cases featuring women protagonists. Currently, women hold 18–20 percent of senior... View Details
Keywords: W50
- 08 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention
their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just had to... View Details
William S. Paley
After entering the media and entertainment field on somewhat of a whim, Paley grew his small radio concern into a media conglomerate with success in radio, television, music, media equipment and more. CBS competed heavily with the larger, older NBC, but ultimately,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Henry R. Luce
Luce created a publishing empire. He launched the weekly Time in 1923, which was followed by the introduction of Fortune in 1930, Life in 1936, and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Luce also presided over a vast communications empire, which included eight radio and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Arde Bulova
Profoundly influencing the art of watch making, Bulova is credited with establishing numerous manufacturing processes that permitted the standardization of parts and movements. Bulova also designed a considerable number of special tools,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
number of for-profits that are focusing on problems in areas such as education and welfare-to-work? According to Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Philanthropy Allen Grossman, the answers to these kinds of questions must take into... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Get to Know HBS
Admissions partners with affinity related student clubs to host a number of prospective student days for candidates who have an interest in learning more about certain communities at HBS including: the military, under-represented... View Details
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Business at the Base of the Pyramid Course Number 1908 Associate Professor Benjamin N. Roth Associate Professor Natalia Rigol Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Overview Between a well-served top of the... View Details
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Innovating at Scale Course Number 1185 Assistant Professor Maria Roche Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits Paper Overview: Innovating inside established organizations is no easy feat. It is difficult to do something new when it... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
different business problems, number one. “Number two, the alumni, the network, is unparalleled as we all know. So as investors start looking at Ethiopia and foreign companies look at investing there, I'm getting a lot of inbound inquiries... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
largely due to two issues: information opacity—the difficulty in gathering accurate information and determining if a small business was actually making money, and heterogeneity—the reality that not all small businesses are the same. Beginning in 2010, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
by Ann Kelly, Alumni Board President Kelly Whether you graduated last June or just celebrated a reunion with a number you don’t enjoy saying aloud, you may be among those alumni who see HBS’s contribution to your development as having... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
so-called territorial system that would permit corporations to pay taxes only to the country where income is earned. Such territorial tax policies have been adopted by a number of industrialized countries, including Canada, France,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBSAA Board of Directors has been hard at work this year, and I am delighted to report progress on a number of initiatives that will benefit alumni. After welcoming twelve new members and inaugurating the committees for 1999-2000 last... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
consumer brands and services, overall brand loyalty is on the decline. In the book, I outline a number of reasons for this; one of them has to do with the proliferation of products and services available to us. Many years ago, I had a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Deals Q2 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Deals Q2 Course Number 2265 Professor Guhan Subramanian Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions (120 minutes, across two time slots) Paper Enrollment: Limited to 42 HBS and 42 HLS students This advanced negotiation course... View Details
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Eduardo Weinstein
felt a more tangible, immediate connection to my life and to the ones I love. I thought about how much I still owe to the child that lives inside me, and how I never want to lose him. I will try to live my life thinking of that child, measuring my success by the View Details
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Usage and Policies - Research Computing Services
and Acceptable Use The HBS research computing environment, composed of a number of servers and services, is a large, shared resource that is often at significant capacity and stores confidential and sensitive research data. The compute... View Details