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25 Mar 2022
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Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

co-president of the WSA. I am originally from Birmingham in the United Kingdom, but moved to London when I was 18 to study (at the London School of Economics) and work (first in Consumer Goods, and then... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

London in the 1960s. The Whitehall researchers attributed shorter life expectancies among lower-level civil servants, who tended to die at younger ages than their bosses, to the psychological stress of working in subordinate positions.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

telegraph varied commodity by commodity and the bulk of communications continued by sea post until the early twentieth century. London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

leaders. Facilitators are gentle guides for discussion, time management, group norms, etc. REGIONS Alumnae Circles operates and accepts new member applications during the annual enrollment cycle in the following regions*: Austin Boston Chicago Houston View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

through credit. 26 London merchant banks such as Baring Brothers & Co. provided Heard & Co. with credit, and the China trade in turn brought a significant increase in banking profits. 27 “With the sophistication of credit instruments, it... View Details

08 Aug 2005
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Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

the organization various types of decisions are being made and whether those particular points are still the most efficient. Keith Leslie, a partner at McKinsey and Company's London office, says his firm recently advised one client to... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

16 Nov 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Boston

physical transformation will set the stage for the needs of future students and expand space for collaborative opportunities across the University. The Dean began this series of alumni gatherings in Fall 2022 in London and Chicago and... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

in installments is an ancient one. In 1641, when the Pilgrims consolidated the “heavy burthens” they owed London creditors, they arranged to pay their debts in four annual “estallments.” 18 But it was mechanization and the mass production... View Details

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Creating Shared Value See all frameworks “Professor Porter has been, and still is, the most influential global thinker on strategy. His contributions are numerous and as relevant today as when he first developed them.” — Costas Markides, Robert P. Bauman Professor of... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

London School of Economics. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recently served on the International Finance Corporation’s Advisory Panel on Sustainability and Business and the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)... View Details

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Representatives providing policy analysis and constituent management. Jonah earned his BA in Political Science from Westmont College, graduating in 2.5 years with Pi Sigma Alpha Honors, and his Masters of Science in Politics from the View Details

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Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Communication Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Monopoly; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry; London

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09 May 2023
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Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

that, we are also clearly not, at the other extreme of remote work, seeing a universal type of practice that every firm is going to apply.” Sadun co-authored the paper with Stanford University’s Nick Bloom; The University College of London’s Stephen Hansen; Peter John... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and the faculty chair of HBS’s Middle East and North Africa... View Details

07 Jan 2019
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The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Real-Time Data and Machine Learning, that puts many of these principles into practice. That paper, coauthored with Xiaojia Guo and Bert De Reyck of the University College London School of Management, details a project with Heathrow... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held investment banking advisory and investment firm that manages a large European... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Apr 2013
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First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

the globe after seeking opportunities abroad. While she welcomed international exposure, traveling to Europe and the United States for higher education and professional growth, Nneka felt she could make a significant impact at home. After obtaining her degree in... View Details

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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