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- 21 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming Out and Finding Acceptance at HBS
identity. But I didn’t speak up. To make my point as clearly and as resonantly as I wanted, I would have to explain that I am a cisgender woman in a relationship with a transgender man, and that while I generally prefer men as romantic partners, I am sometimes... View Details
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Investing for Impact Course Number 6604 Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones Senior Lecturer Emily R. McComb Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Enrollment: Limited to 40 students, by... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
new projects early on which is also a consistent feature for all other Actis employees.” In fact, Harvard Business School alum, Michael Harrington (GMP 25), is now a Partner at Actis and champion of the internship program after having... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 11 May 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Microsoft
Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering a variety of topics ranging from their experience working with HBS to what they want students to know. New interviews will be released throughout the year to... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 17 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
F-Prime immensely – there were days I found myself knee-deep in technology diligence with scientific/medical experts in one meeting while structuring deals and meeting entrepreneurs in another. My exposure to CEOs and VC Partners showed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
proficient in English, or risk demotion. “I was simply astonished,” said one engineer interviewed after the announcement. “Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English.” At Rakuten, an online shopping mall that does not sell to consumers but instead View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
U.S. Court of Appeals; made partner at Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate finance; founded (with his father) a company that published an English version of the Russian newspaper Pravda; was appointed senior associate... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
in the chain. Business cannot sit this one out.— Buff Mackenzie, USAID Take Coca-Cola, for example. According to Carol Martel, director of public affairs for the Coca-Cola Company, the secret-formula concentrate that is the essence of Coke is manufactured in only a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
dimensions. The most obvious was the structure of the organization. While this was a corporate division rather than an independent partnership (like most venture organizations), the XTV partners crafted an agreement with Xerox that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
little like the digital computers of the midcentury: enormous, primitive, and unreliable, says Jim Ricotta (MBA 1985), CEO of Aliro Quantum Technologies. We’re also constrained by the limited number of qubits (or quantum bits) that these... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of business of the merchant or agent, who was called a “factor.” “We were not allowed to go beyond the limits of the factories (about a hundred yard square) except to the ’Hongs’ (places of business of the Hong merchants) and for exercise... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
Top leaders of a global consulting firm longed to add more women to its partner ranks, if women would just put in the hours necessary to compete. But mothers would always prioritize their children’s needs over those of clients, they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
furniture design but in a warehouse, a fleet of trucks, and a staff of drivers—the type of capital-intensive vertical integration he planned for later on, after Gaia Design had established its reputation as a source for well-designed, good-quality furniture. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
second module of the three-part course, sends all 900-plus first-year MBAs across the globe in January to work on projects with partner organizations in emerging markets. “The logistical challenges are enormous,” says course head Tony... View Details