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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

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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While working... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application... 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

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

24 Apr 2018
First Look

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

An Application to Shopping Mall Sales By: Chung, Doug J., Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song Abstract—We propose a Bayesian model of post-entry outcomes. Endogenous firm entries are modeled as a discrete game of complete information. The model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

not suggesting that we can establish causal relationships, but it certainly gave us a deep intimate look at the attempts to grow expertise in a short period of time, and that's where I think there's a lot of applicability to most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

idea suffered from both density and doubt. In short, we wondered not only what its applications really looked like in practice but also if it could ever really live up to its hype. Those questions are at the heart of our recent profile of... View Details

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

you want to do next? We could do anything next!" The possibilities seemed limitless for wireless entertainment and information systems, and the potential pitfalls were unforeseen. Had Huber decided to offer hundreds of fun View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

tax obligations. Q: You mentioned the dual-book system. Why are firms allowed to report their profits in two different ways to capital markets and tax authorities? A: It is a curious system. Imagine if you were allowed to report income to the IRS in one way and on your... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

the potential application of chemical properties used in earlier photographic processes. 2 The daguerreotype, introduced in 1839, was a direct-positive process, formed without a negative, that produced a unique image on a silver-coated... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

our next cohort of Fellows, who will study the impact that models of enterprise ownership have on societal and organizational objectives. You can find the link to apply here . Applications are due by 11:59pm EST on January 19, 2025... View Details

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