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- 24 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Transitioning to Product Management at HBS
plethora of tech-focused courses in EC year), to student clubs (the Tech Club is ones of the largest student clubs and does a phenomenal job organizing an annual tech conference and treks to tech companies on both coasts and many in... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations for "Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
to another important facet of the McKinsey culture--giving back to society. "I've always spent 15 to 20 percent of my time helping nonprofit organizations whose mission and leadership I've felt passionate about, among them Wesleyan, the... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
malfeasance but can cause problems nonetheless. “They are not even designed to detect misconduct, which is part of what makes this work—employees feel much more comfortable talking than they might in a narrower platform,” says Campbell. View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
one-third of the HBS student body -- traveled to San Francisco and Silicon Valley as participants in the fifth annual WesTrek, an event organized by members of the High Tech and New Media Club in coordination with the School's Career... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
5 Facts about Clubs at HBS
to create one of your own. Just in the past year, the HBS Student Senate approved the Boxing & Fitness Club, CODE Club (for those looking to program), Free Enterprise Club, and the Search Fund Club. 3. Many clubs charge membership... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with... View Details
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
codes each paper with one of 51 different research categories—including aerospace, imaging, and robotics. For each scientist, Nagle and Teodoridis were able to classify their degree of specialization by determining how many different fields they’d published in. Next,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
Per the South African government, only licensed banks were allowed to take deposits. The cost of a license was the equivalent of $34 million—a hefty fee for a startup—and the South African Reserve Bank was wary of issuing new permits. Hence, the WIZZIT execs began... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an open contest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
international product development until she was promoted to lead its $500-million desktop business group. Two years later, when IBM acquired the firm, she was recruited by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to build its software business. At DEC she launched... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over multiple functions or... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Executive Vice... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
student. These entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty venture is any... View Details