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Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years & View Details

Shereen Shermak

Shereen is a founder of multiple Boston-based startups, most recently Nth Party (acq. MGNI) and Atlantic Quantum. She was previously a Boston-based venture capitalist, entrepreneur and active angel investor. Previously, Shereen served as... View Details

Keywords: Finance;#45;#Insurance;#64;#Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital;#53;#Media & Publishing;#20;#Ecommerce;#24;#Electronics & Hardware

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Archives & Records Management | Baker Library

Archives & Records Management The HBS Archives and Records Management program manages active records and oversees the long-term preservation of archival records. The Harvard Business School (HBS) Archives, mandated by Harvard University,... View Details

Andrzej Baraniak

Andrzej is a cofounder of Albert, a direct to consumer financial technology company started in 2015. Albert has raised over $200 million to date, has over 1 million active subscribers and a team of over 100 employees. Before Albert,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

George H. Mead

Mead, who started his career as a chemist and pulp mill foreman, built a paper mill empire. His knowledge of the manufacturing process and the paper market resulted in a steady expansion of the business. Mead was also active in the... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

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Women in Investing Club | MBA

York, Boston, and San Francisco Fireside chats Enrichment seminars Small group dinners and other social activities Club Website http://www.wiihbsclub.com/ Club Email Address wii@studentclubs.hbs.edu Club Co-Presidents Joann Kong Camila... View Details

08 May 2015
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Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies

can help all employees work together more effectively, including building awareness of the emotional dynamics involved in cross-language business communications; creating safe environments for language practice; and reinforcing an empathetic culture, in which native... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Faculty Research Online

You Outsource Your Marketing? Few companies own all the marketing expertise they need, especially of the left-brain, analytic variety. Professor of Management Practice Gail McGovern outlines the pros and cons of turning over your marketing View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Didier Dumerjean

for Human Rights & Global Justice (Human Rights & Translation), Harlem Educational Activities Fund (Board Member), Aspen Institute (Socrates Fellow - Thought Leadership) View Details

July 2007 (Revised July 2008)
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The Beijing Dream

By: Arthur I Segel, Voon Siang Lee, Jialei Tian and Ying Laura Wang

The purchase of a single-family home is generally the major investment for most young couples in China. Shows in detail the process that a young couple goes through in late April 2007 to find, finance, and close on an apartment in Beijing within what they believe to be... View Details

Keywords: Property; Investment; Cost; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Activity Based Costing and Management; Internet and the Web; Management Practices and Processes; Real Estate Industry; Beijing; United States

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January 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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Peloton Interactive (A)

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and David Lane

Early in February 2022, the board of Peloton Interactive faced some knotty challenges. Immense pandemic demand for its stationary exercise bicycles and treadmills had prompted the firm to scale up production rapidly. But as gyms reopened and the virulence of the virus... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth Management; Investment Activism; Leadership; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Sports Industry; United States

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the United States. As head of the firm, Reid hired a number of female correspondents including some of the first women to report on active military engagements. View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Career Coach

Matt Wood

prep as well as mindfulness activities to stay grounded during these stressful processes. Employment Experience: Mursion (edtech VR internship), Social Finance (impact investing), Deloitte, Fulbright/Dept. of State View Details

13 May 2019

HBS ShowCASE in Miami

This event will give prospective MBA students the opportunity to try out our signature pedagogy of the case method. You won’t just be witnessing the case method in action, you’ll actively be participating in it. What better way to see if... View Details

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4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy | MBA

4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy 4.0 General Policies Harvard University provides its students, faculty, and staff with a Harvard identification card that affords access to numerous activities and locations on campus.... View Details

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

improvement. Whether induced learning through the use of deliberate learning activities provides additional performance benefits has been neglected. We argue that the use of deliberate learning activities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Robert L. Vann

Under Vann’s leadership, the Courier became the essential, and the only, newspaper that reported news and provided a positive showcasing of Pittsburgh’s growing black community. The paper became a very active political and community... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

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CB Insights | Baker Library

CB Insights Tracks global venture capital, angel investment, private equity, M&A, and IPO activity related to private companies. Read More CB Insights offers industry financing and exit (M&A/IPO) trends for over 160 industries including... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Engine Charlie

WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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