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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Becoming a Consulting Expert
learning something new every single day (because you’re getting quizzed on something new every single day), and you leave each project with some fairly in-depth knowledge about whatever it is you’ve been... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Tanzania photo galleries Photography by Graeme Johnson, Alan Steinert, Jr., and Susan Young. Mt Kilimanjaro photo galleries Photos courtesy Norm Boone (MBA ’77) and Linda Lubitz. It’s 5:30 a.m. As our Jeep bumps along a dirt road under a... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
world, was created based upon technology developed by Tufts University professors David Kaplan and Fiorenzo Omenetto. Kaplan and Omenetto's technique uses a protein found in silk to stabilize vaccines, making it possible to ship them... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
How should employers and workers adapt to the new demands in today’s technologically driven workforce? Two recent reports by HBS professor Joseph Fuller examine innovative paths to training and building talent pipelines. The first report... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Path from Public Service to HBS – A less unlikely road than I once thought Kate Swain-Smith 15 Apr 2024 Two years ago, I would not have anticipated or even believed that I’d be seeking an MBA today. As... Lessons from the Field of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
Lima toll road in Peru. In Buenos Aires, despite Argentina’s economic difficulties, the team found a model transit system—including a new bus rapid transit system to alleviate congestion—that residents have... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
and Singapore, he notes, makes its deep water ports extremely attractive—and the fact that it maintains good diplomatic relations across the Indian Ocean region doesn’t hurt either. Analysts have noted Sri Lanka’s potential as a highly strategic link for China in what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
hopes to help build—a city designed for this millennium, not the last. It’s been a long road back to Detroit for Rhea, who left for college in the early 1980s. “I would have loved to have been able to go back to Detroit [after school].... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
Wasserman realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them. Based on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world markets. Levitt's key insight... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
For Debby Farrington, the road to HBS began at age 11 with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange. "I was fascinated," says Farrington, who majored in economics at Smith and was one of just nine women in her... View Details
- 28 May 2017
- Blog Post
HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire
Summer means one thing for the Admissions team at Dillon House: it’s outreach season. Team members head out on the road to spread the word about the HBS MBA and meet with prospective students around the world. Last month Admissions... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
trying to establish the first hospital in the 1980s, as well as the motivations that helped him persevere. Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS and Value and Budget Housing Corporation, explains how years of creating View Details
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
mistakes should I watch out for in starting a new company? Should I Keep Control Of My Company? Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? It's a fundamental tension many entrepreneurs face, the conflict between wanting to become rich and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
generations.” You will notice that “unimpaired” and “enjoyment” could easily come into conflict. For example, building roads or bathrooms could help facilitate recreation but could impair the park’s natural resources. In such example,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Claudine Madras Gartenberg The idea of corporate purpose—a responsibility that goes beyond dollars and cents—can seem like little more than platitudes tucked into a mission statement. But new... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson