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Jessica Kramer
to think so: Impressed classmates have made the project one of the top three in the school’s simulated stock market, rewarding the team with an additional $2,500 in capital. If the business takes off, business-plan competitions may be... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
ceremony.(photograph by Dotti Stone) Companies submitting projects for the award must be engaged in activities that significantly promote employee and/or community development and meet specific criteria. For example, a company's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 29 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy
Project Finance, Marketing, HR, and Supply Chain departments will continue to be offered annually during the summer, with recruitment starting in December. Depending on our business needs, full time opportunities may be available in these... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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John Clayton
John Clayton speaks French, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish, and his resume looks less like a CV than an atlas: He has studied in Bologna, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and worked on the sustainable-development portfolio of the World Bank on View Details
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Jeff Bernstein
Problem-solving drives Jeff Bernstein's ambitions. After graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering, he managed projects on some of the United States' busiest roadways, such as the Long Island Expressway and the... View Details
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Chris Hurst
deployed to Kuwait and Egypt, where he worked with international partners and supported the flow of engineer troops and materiel into the Middle East. These experiences, plus a subsequent civilian role managing infrastructure planning View Details
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Gallery - The Art of American Advertising
Education Faculty & Research 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani announced the changeover, in English, in March 2010 and set a two-year deadline for everyone to demonstrate English proficiency or sacrifice chances for advancement. He dubbed the project “Englishnization,” which has attracted... View Details
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team
publication was like a hurricane,” he continues. “No one thought a book with 72 pages of footnotes could become a bestseller and create such a stir. The Energy Project and the book changed my life. Were it not for Energy Future, I would... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
two, as an investor, [to] facilitate also the channeling funds to projects that can help achieve that goal. When you speak about climate change, you cannot advise it if you don't have everybody play a role in it. “While you're addressing... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
$42 million, and grew from there. For her part, Hoel Perkins joined Menlo Ventures in 1994 and became the youngest general partner in the firm’s history. Since then she has founded the Perkins Fund, as well as Project Glimmer and the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
consultant in the state. We’ve had over $3.5 billion worth of impact for our manufacturers and also saved—or created—more than 16,000 jobs. “We generally work with manufacturers that are less than $100 million in sales. When we go into work with them, say on a View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
expenditures and innovation to the extent such projects are not specially funded by gifts. Revenues from Executive Education and publishing activities help fund research and curriculum development. As in any large service organization,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While negotiating the terms of a major... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 23 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience
brilliant project because it channels the HBS energy, it’s relatable, it’s vulnerable, it’s honest.” The Portrait Project is an HBS series featuring student essays with artsy black and white portraits in... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
facility, around 2:30 outside of Mumbai, we met the company’s executives and learned about both their net zero commitments and how sustainability is embedded in the company’s culture, through a series of high ROI projects which also help... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
1995, and continuing over the next few years, they launched a research project to simplify Internet search, a process that was then far from easy. Outsiders do well in the US when venture capitalists and angel investors don’t... View Details