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01 Dec 1997
News

1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success

indicated little or no difference between the two cohorts as they made the transition from student to working MBA. On average, the 245 members of the January cohort reported equal satisfaction with their job offers, received the same View Details

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That is a third of the total View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

John F. Welch, Jr.

number one or number two in their respective industries. Welch helped GE become one of the most efficient conglomerates of its time, being an industry leader in everything from aircraft engines to television... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Portrait Project

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

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Awards | Commencement 2025

Awards Awards are given annually in several categories. Alumni Achievement Awards For more than 50 years, Harvard Business School has selected a number of outstanding graduates to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement... View Details

01 Nov 2019
News

It’s a Small World

I've been at EF for the past 20 years, it's been super exciting. To you give you a sense of the scale of our business, last year we opened up a new EF office or school at a rate of one every other week. If you gauged the number of... View Details

03 May 2019
News

Giving Voice to Black and Hispanic Women

that I'm aware of that has that capability, locally or internationally, to bring that number of people together in one weekend to celebrate black women. “And I remember being at the hotel––this is 2007––and I saw this black woman looking... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2018
News

Action Plan: Happy Honey

natural] order is for us, then live in harmony with it.” Accept that bee stings come with the territory. Price estimates that the highest number of stings he’s endured at one time is six. Nevertheless, he sometimes works with the hives in... View Details

Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov

12 Apr 2016
News

How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies

franchises (foregoing the combining of the Harry Potter books to limit the number of films). And while Horn had the good fortune of running already-successful companies under the Disney umbrella, colleagues note that his management has... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation

through YPO, and now through a number of other initiatives, in getting people past this concept that they know everything about the other. We realized early on that probably the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language is... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The Giving Tree

When he established an MBA student fellowship in 1979, William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) probably didn’t imagine the head count of student beneficiaries would eventually climb to 78—a number large enough to lose track of when asked about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2002
News

Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

Results, published in a recent working paper, showed that the number of promotional spots viewed had a positive impact on the “match” between viewer and show. Essentially, the more promotions they had seen, the more likely viewers were to... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

01 Mar 2013
News

Celebrating Women at HBS

Activities marking the 50th anniversary of women in the two-year MBA Program are continuing on campus and through HBS alumni clubs and associations. Photos courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Throughout the year, a number of... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

capacity. In illustrating this point in a book on macroeconomics that I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted three people: President Herbert Hoover, who was the US president when the Great Depression started; President Franklin... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

and where the financial markets are nonetheless looking to large-scale securitization. "I put considerable focus on negotiation and the decision-making process," explains Poorvu. Also crucial, says Poorvu, are the links between the View Details

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

Future of Diplomacy Project and Harvard University's South Asia Institute, brought together diplomats, security experts, and entrepreneurs in a conversation that ought to occur more often. Celebrate, on the one hand, the dramatic rise in the View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

reduce poverty within their borders. Several years ago, world leaders gathered in Monterrey, Mexico, and gave poverty reduction top priority. They committed themselves to halve the number of people living on less than $1 a day by 2015.... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

rational decision making. Nonprofits often have a cultural opposition to structure. A lack of theory of management practice exists for nonprofits. These characteristics lead to a number of disputes between headquarters and affiliates,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

John Rogers

sustainability. My generation faces a number of challenges and I am excited to help develop solutions that meet them. On an individual level, I look forward to working with farmers and seeing in their eyes the same love, grit and... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

students and recent alumni who are making a difference working in Africa. The GO Fellowship is awarded to a limited number of students/recent graduates who accept a full-time, post-HBS job in Africa, or are a founder of a new venture in... View Details

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