Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

Arjun Chopra

computing company, where he launched and led their cloud strategy, products and services. He was a member of the board and executive team that raised multiple rounds of financing and spun out smartShift Inc. He led 350+ people, on-boarded hundreds of View Details

29 Sep 2020
News

A Righteous Path

When Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) became the executive director of the Safe Passage Project in 2016, his mandate was to expand the organization. Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

25 Apr 2014
News

A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential

involved in projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa and another 200 alumni already making a difference as leaders on college campuses nationwide. Falik conceived the idea for Global Citizen Year after high school, when she moved to... View Details

13 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

business plans, and also fairly within the family. Even if some entrepreneurial projects don't succeed, these investments will help you spot talent to keep your business growing. And you are sending an important message: this family is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded by the authors of the new book, Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

HBS professor advised me to begin my project by asking companies to pay smoodi to come to their offices and prepare customized smoothies for the employees. The idea was that if I couldn’t gain money this way, a machine would never work.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

for you?We are a large, complex Fortune 7 company, however when you intern here you can develop personal connections and impact our business, whose purpose is to help people on their path to better health. Through our Corporate Intern Program, each intern works on a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Dominic Mensah

journey feels like a project with potential to transform my world. However, alongside its grandeur, there's lingering fear of important tradeoffs. After a few weeks of crunching through cases, I quickly realized that the fears that... View Details

18 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context

continent and the trip allowed them to see the country from a local’s perspective. In my second year, I worked with classmates on projects ranging from solar energy in Kenya and Tanzania, to an economic development plan of Ethiopia, to a... View Details

10 May 2015
Blog Post

Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur

job functions at HBS? If a role or career interests you, pursue it via HBS clubs, independent projects or internships. I saw several people get a leg up on a new career path by taking a leadership role in a club or helping a company via... View Details

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Initiatives & Projects MBA Resources Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy... View Details

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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

organizations, Hill turned again to the collective expertise of the global business community. She was supported in her research efforts by project leader Sunand Menon (MBA 2001) and former HBS Executive Fellow Ann Le Cam, both of whom... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2016
News

New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview

evolving discussion. I saw how rich the learning is at HBS, and I was hooked.” After graduation, Losee was an HBS Fellow in the Dean’s office, working on the launch of HBX among other projects before returning to Bain & Company. He... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

02 Jun 2015
News

Pointing the Way to a Better World

to research and write the book, film the documentary, and promote both projects on a speaking tour last fall. While she returns to her financial work this year, she knows the book’s work—to inspire change—is far from over. Whether it’s... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
News

Making a Difference

Dimas's project focused on creating, analyzing, and implementing a visitor survey to learn more about how the museum could enhance its programs for a wider audience. The fellowship has helped her decide just where in the art world she'd... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

America were buzzing about Clocky, a clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping when its alarm went off. At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

find that lean projects perform better than the non-lean projects in our sample in many, but not all, cases. Building on this result we see that the impact of the techniques on problem solving, coordination,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

were convinced that their classmates had no idea what it would be like to be in a small town in New England, and to no longer have a source of employment." “We want to change the way layoffs are done” Those emails have led to a multiyear study on the impact of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

specialized knowledge sourcing depends on within-team knowledge sharing, and so conditions that hinder knowledge sharing in a team are likely to reduce the effectiveness of the specialized approach. Using archival data from several hundred software development View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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