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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
application process is open, and qualified buyers are selected on the basis of lotteries and other methods. Our projects attract and retain people in the neighborhood, which contributes to stability, further investment, and a broader tax... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
permit the acquisition of valuable knowledge, additional mechanisms may be necessary to enable the subsequent application of that knowledge in a team setting. We hypothesize that team familiarity—prior experience working with team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
architecture. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55689 2019 Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 2 Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets By: Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Creighton Taylor
of features, the number-one favorite was getting updates on what their friends and family were looking at.” Based on these insights, Creighton’s team recommended a news application that had a strong social-media component to it. For... View Details
- 06 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups
Showcase, I shared our story and our mission with my classmates, our advisors, and the broader MS/MBA community. Late hours spent doing customer interviews, applications submitted between MBA classes, and our multiple pivots all felt... View Details
- 09 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS
Initiative-affiliated class. Board Fellows and Social Enterprise Consulting Club I am one of two co-presidents of the Board Fellows and Social Enterprise Consulting Club (BFSEC) at HBS. The club admits first and second year students through an View Details
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Alexandra C. Feldberg
differ widely, it is important to know yourself first so you can articulate your aspirations for graduate pursuits clearly and make an informed decision about programs. While this advice certainly holds in the application process, I think... View Details
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
solve problems,” she notes. Before enrolling in the MBA Program, Chen worked at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in Shanghai and Singapore. While there, she began to question her own societal impact, prompting her application to HBS. In... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
a lot of value from the standpoint that it is a universal statistic that’s applicable across players and positions. It’s really easy from a topline perspective to explain to someone: This is how many wins a player got you.” Explaining... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
vision, neuroscience, and behavioral science researchers. They had the tools to train computers to think more like humans, but did not yet have an application for the technology. Together the team—including David Cox, the John L. Loeb... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Despite those accomplishments, however, his first application to the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) was turned down. "I had one year to deal with my failure," Safin relates. He used that time to... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
that Curiel performed during his second year. Classmates and cofounders Chadd Garcia and Misha Simmonds joined his effort to test that idea following graduation. The RFDF’s “Mini MBA” program offers migrant students online courses in business and finance while... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
address them became more supportive of government. Study 3 leverages proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to Boston government. Users who received photographic evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
one hand, this is not rocket science, and yet you see hundreds of applications not doing well.” Lal’s research delved into five successful mobile money deployments: Telesom ZAAD in Somaliland, Dialog eZ Cash in Sri Lanka, Econet EcoCash... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12
and other service providers, lessons from this case are applicable for teaching about institutional change, procurement processes relevant to many fields, and how to increase rigor in typically informal business processes. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
the case materials, lectures, guest speakers, and application workshops: First, you must understand the externals in your business and their impact on required sales tasks. Value is created or destroyed in the external marketplace, not in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1
Repetition of interaction may improve learning, since experience working together aids in the identification, transfer, and application of knowledge among members within a group. Additionally, experience need not be constrained to one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace