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04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

March 2018
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Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal (B)

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti

Supplements the (A) case. Having successfully spearheaded relief work in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Foundation envisions creating a more comprehensive and sustainable development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates... View Details

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05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities shape people's actions in organizations. The current organizational literature on multiple identities, however, is sparse and scattered and has yet to fully... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) was born in Lagos and educated in the United States, but always wanted to return to Nigeria. And not just because he missed family or... View Details

02 Nov 2020
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WE RISE

monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.” That’s the pitch Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999) and her... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

management. It brings these themes together in case discussions and exercises that focus on the personal decisions managers face in high-performance, high-stakes, and career-defining moments. Students will examine leaders in private and publicly owned companies, View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

socialist state, a land of overarching regulation rather than of opportunity. "As a result, there was no entrepreneurship, and businesses couldn't do a thing without government approval," recalls Rahul Bajaj, a member of one of India's... View Details

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John Rogers

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? As a non-business person by prior education and work experience and as someone with a specific career interest, I wanted to join a program that would significantly stretch my understanding of View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

Commencement 2017 Address Play As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 25 May 2017 Class of 2017, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and welcome. The Class of 2017 has witnessed, during its... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

native English speaker, and I have carried those learnings and me into my new role. I'm CEO of Sodexo's US business for one of their lines of activity. So, I think it has made me just a better, more effective, more compassionate leader.... View Details

04 Jan 2012
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Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

business and society." The right amount of income inequality may be hard to determine, but respondents to this month's column offered up a number of measures, some more straightforward than others. Comments suggesting that right... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

novel to me and to share a side of myself I hadn’t really shown before. I had to ask for help – something I historically avoid at all costs. However, instead of feeling like a burden on those friends and family members, I feel like I’ve... View Details

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

the design specifications and granted us the rights to produce it. So with very little infrastructure in the medical-technology industry in Egypt, a consortium was formed—our business school association, a group of scholars, and an... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts

his homeland's descent into madness and destruction. Recalls Djelic, who counts some thirty family members killed by Croatian and German Nazis during World War II, “The worst was the 1999 NATO bombing campaign. All of my extended family,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Jan 2017
News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

the first time I had a psychotic break in my second year at Harvard Business School. When I looked back after that, I realized that I had actually had symptoms as early as fourth grade, but it really wasn't until I had that break, that I... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

social enterprise heading over the next decade? I am an optimist, and I believe we will see refreshing changes in that time frame. The new cadre of donors, the new family foundations, the folks who are involved in venture philanthropy,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

23 Nov 2020
Blog Post

We Rise