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23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An entrepreneurial firm with limited... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Emily Schlichting

would be for those who did not. Being sick is hard enough without dealing with the financial implications of care." Emily invested her post-college career in health care advocacy, serving in a variety of policymaking roles with the... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Sebastian Velasco

M&A, capital raising and debt issuance, "basically, the other side of what my mother had been doing." Extending deep connections An MBA had long been in Sebastian's plans. HBS was his top choice because of his undergraduate... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

02 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

Joanna: I grew up in Maryland and went to Yale for undergrad, where I studied Economics and East Asian Studies. Before grad school, I spent one year in investment banking and two years in capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch... View Details

28 Mar 2024
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IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

About EcoWorldDevelopment of EcoWorld began in 2016 by Indian real estate firm RMZ to accommodate Bangalore’s increasing need for office space, particularly for tech firms. Accordingly, the development was designed to be a... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

Springs Industries, Inc., Telsat Canada, Bell Canada, and Teradyne Inc. He was a founding board member of the Canada Development Investment Corporation and a member of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services... View Details

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

demands of consistent quality, innovative design, supply logistics, and the need for superior customer service, and it's easy to understand why David A. Birnbaum (HBS MBA '74), a private jeweler, would sound this cautionary note:... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

But when I began to research a broader range of measures including investment, phone calls, tourism, and immigration, I found that, surprisingly, the average extent of globalization is only 10 percent. For example, for every dollar of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
Case

Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details

Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America

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11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

decline. “I need to keep my professional skills in play, or they will atrophy.” The path ahead, however, remained unclear. Kloeblen was not sure how his executive experience could translate into one, or multiple, roles, what kinds of... View Details

08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories

institutionalizing the resources needed for our community to engage deeper with DEI topics. This role has allowed me to create and support the inaugural class of Section DEI Reps, provide feedback on the MBA View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities that allow students with financial need to take core HBS Online courses at a significantly reduced price and continue a mentorship program... View Details

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

exist to measure teamwork. Few have demonstrated all of the psychometric properties recommended for use, and there is inconsistency in conceptualizations of teamwork. More research is needed to develop and refine measures of teamwork for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber

In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details

Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States

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01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

metaverse, and quantum-edge computing are just a few examples. In this environment, leaders must understand how to use data for decision-making (and use judgment for data); how to use design-thinking approaches to address unmet needs for... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

of our Executive Education programs is to help fulfill the need for well-trained business leaders at all levels of organizations worldwide, and we are interested in increasing our focus in Latin America," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "This... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

afraid to go deep and specialize if you can identify that intersection point, they said. There are many new areas in the climate arena with a shortage of subject matter experts. Steven Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable View Details

07 Feb 2019
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How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

done things. Let’s never try anything new.” In short, what you need throughout your organization are creative constructors. Videos: Gary Pisano's Three Key Lessons about Corporate Innovation View Video View Video View Video Martha Lagace... View Details