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HBS Fund - Alumni

quickly to harness the most promising new ideas and innovations. Choose Your Impact You can choose to support one of five key areas or let the School direct your gift wherever it is most needed. Business... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

Our new data help to address important questions related to innovation and long-run growth dynamics. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52130 Harvard Business School Case 517-108 Tequila Patrón Tequila... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

session participants valuable lessons about complex public and private dealmaking. Business in Global Society Professor Debora Spar (PMD 62) and panel + More Info – Less Info... View Details

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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

reformers, journalists, and photographers brought to national attention poor working conditions experienced by industrial workers. In the ensuing economic climate of the late 1920s and 1930s, many executives... View Details

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

Gerald Zaltman, an emeritus professor at Harvard Business School, and Lindsay Zaltman, managing director of Olson Zaltman Associates, a research and consulting firm, believe that deep insights from consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

at Princeton University. He then earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard’s Department of... View Details

20 Oct 2016
Blog Post

An Interview with Associate Director, Phillip Andrews

travelling to these regions to meet with organizations that are interested in hiring the many HBS students and alumni seeking roles outside of the U.S. What is a highlight... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

MENARC, Alpana spent eight years in various marketing roles at renowned multinational companies such as Reckitt Benckiser and Johnson & Johnson. Alpana received an MBA from Harvard View Details

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

global leader in the auto parts industry and to develop into a broad business conglomerate. Beginning in 1994, when it first began its operations View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2015
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Harvard Arab Weekend (HAW) 2015

The Harvard Arab Weekend (HAW) is the largest pan-Arab conference in North America, bringing together over 1,000 students and professionals to discuss key issues with the region’s most prominent politicians, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

while the US government provided just 22.5 percent, according to the Congressional Research Service. Higher education, nonprofits, and nonfederal government entities contributed the remaining 10 percent. “The question that naturally arises is, ‘What is the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

decisions, but eventually, many students face the decision of either going back to their previous role that sponsors their tuition or pivoting to a riskier role. This decision becomes more complex when they... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

to joining HBS, Schoonbeek worked at McKinsey for two years analyzing a range of business problems in different industries. “HBS was a very logical extension to that experience... View Details

August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
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Urban Water Partners (B)

By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia

The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get their company through August 2010, but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested... View Details

Keywords: Human Needs; Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Health Industry; Utilities Industry; Dar es Salaam

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27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2024
Working Paper

The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Bart S. Vanneste and Amirhossein Zohrehvand

Can generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) transform the role of the CEO? This study investigates whether Gen-AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees display aversion to Gen-AI communication. We present a framework of Gen-AI aversion that distinguishes... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; AI and Machine Learning; Perception; Communication

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