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25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Dec 2021
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Physicians Off the Beaten Path

positioned to expose everyone else to this.” “At the end of the day, it wasn’t necessary that I needed to treat patients. But I needed to have impact.” — Dr. Dan Gebremedhin (Physician, Venture View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Oct 2013
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Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on research in the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2017
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5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

wouldn’t be able to afford an MBA How would I pay for the MBA? What would I do about fees and living expenses? I learned more about financial aid at HBS and realized it’s hard to find anyone who gets in and doesn’t attend because they... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
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ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)

By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg

Climate change was becoming an important societal and business issue as more governments were introducing climate change related regulations and investors became increasibly worried about stranded assets within oil and gas firms. In September 2016, the U.S. Securities... View Details

Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Strategy track. Introduction to Disruptive Strategy ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Disruptive Strategy $1,850 Next 6-week session starts April 2nd Enroll... View Details

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

more than 230 creditors, including a bakery owner who held a special bake sale to express her outrage. Did a company that had raised more than $120 million in venture capital need to stiff so many people?... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

meaningful and satisfying post-work life. Because so much of what needs to be planned is subjective (only you can say what is or is not meaningful to you), there is no one path or formula for effective retirement planning. But we can... View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

of good things going on in terms of sponsorship. Now we just need to understand better what does work and why.” “So, while you might be hoping sponsorship might close the gender gap by encouraging high-ability women who are reluctant to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

sampling channel and by decreasing returns; and (4) amplify these demand and operational benefits in dealing with customers who have the most acute need for the firm’s products. Moreover, the effects we document strengthen with time as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Dilan Gomih

digestible. When you transfer knowledge to someone else, it's a spark, a multiplier effect. They no longer need me to do things for them; they can do it themselves, and teach others, too." The right time for HBS While working in... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

through a new course for MBA students, Why You Should Care: Creating the Conditions for Excellence, co-taught with Senior Lecturer and venture capital guru Amy Schulman. Together, they created a course unlike any other at the school, both... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jul 2004
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Enron’s Lessons for Managers

not sufficient anymore. 2. The internal control systems are broken. 3. The best response to the above is to strengthen externally imposed controls by improving the flow of information to capital markets, by shifting power to shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

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