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02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309019 Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur... (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 409-025 Philip McCrea is dealing with the aftermath of the move of his... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

special episode of the HBS podcast Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Published January 6, 2021 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email Play Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard... View Details

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

learning-in-the-field complement to the case method used in the classroom. This past May, more than 1,000 students in the Class of 2024, divided into faculty-led cohorts of some 70 students each, worked in 15 locations with 171 global View Details

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Leaders Program

startup after graduation. Through my experiences with BEI and CLP, I've realized that addressing climate change requires more than just technological advancements and capital funding. We need a business model that can incentivize... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

Times-bestselling author, and a business communication consultant, and in this episode of Skydeck, she tells contributor April White about the parallels between the business world and the dating world, the... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to start View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Pedro Levindo and Ruth Costas

Marfrig, one of the world’s leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The company also pledged to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases in accordance with the guidelines set by the... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Family Business; Communication Strategy; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Bonds; Food; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; Political Elections; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Brazil; Latin America; Argentina; Uruguay; North America; United States; Europe; Asia; China

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23 May 2019
News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 May 2023
News

Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

Black students from lower-income families in struggling neighborhoods—hope for a successful future. The kids were attentive as the assembly concluded, but, Wilfong later learned, they didn't expect this stranger to follow through on her... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Omowale Casselle

Graduates go on to achieve unbelievable professional success. However, the personal relationships with family and friends are what make life truly worth living." "As I graduated from business... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

28 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)

success. However, the personal relationships with family and friends are what make life truly worth living. "As I graduated from business school in 2009, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

her time working closely with the Wildlife Conservation Society. After graduating from the HBS/HKS joint degree program Paulina will be moving to Washington, DC to work for the World Wildlife Fund. Why did you decide to come to HBS? I chose to go to View Details

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

in need. FGFH also began raising funds for the Gowns for Good Made in America initiative, which supports small businesses within the fashion and garment industries in the United States that have pivoted their manufacturing to create... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

30 Nov 2019
News

Land of the Rising Scrum

Old Boys team photo with the Keio Rugby Club (photos courtesy HBS Rugby club) John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) was in his first year at Harvard Business School when he heard a New Zealander trying to recruit new students for the rugby club. The... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

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

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

it. I just left him laying there. I turned it into a horrible person, I guess. My name is Devin. I started doing meth when I was 10 years old. Meth affected my friendship with him pretty bad. He won't talk to me any more. Me and my brothers don't talk. Me and my... View Details

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