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1.8 Academic Honors | MBA

Category I grade credits. For credit-bearing courses and Independent Projects graded on a P/LP/F scale, 'P' grades represent satisfactory performance and those credits do not figure into honors calculations. Historical data on grade... View Details

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Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni

Wallace (MBA 2007) Fred Wang (MBA 2020) Geng Wang (MBA 2015), Civic Champs Modi Wiczyk (MBA 1999), MRC* Jan Wilmking (MBA 2010), Project Eaden Nicholas Wood (MBA 2015), Trident Liang Xu (MBA 2003), Heyi Capital Ni Xu (MBA 2017) Julio... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Streamlining the Supermarket

result in fewer mistaken items showing up in your bags (or missing from them). “Good stores today run with 93 percent accuracy,” Pedró says. “We project 99.9 percent accuracy.” 4.Thirty minutes after placing the order, you pull into a... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

07 Oct 2011
News

Tea’s Time

not just an idea anymore.” Based in San Francisco, Tea’s sales are projected to hit $25 million in 2011. Sold in some department stores (Nordstrom’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s) and children’s clothing boutiques, Tea has seen... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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Brett Laffel

Lastly, while I loved my job, I also loved having the opportunity to return to an academic environment and challenge myself via fascinating discussions both in and out of class and via course projects that I was able to choose for myself... View Details

19 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission

responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the organization; 2) support for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

Management consulting doesn’t lend itself to a balanced diet. Always on the go for her projects at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) would grab whatever packaged food appeared healthiest to her. For a long time, she sought low-calorie... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2017
News

The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum

projected words from stories and poems, and peek into the nooks and crannies of a “surprise bookshelf” to learn about an author or a literary work. “This seems to be a particularly good time to remember that the United States was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1997
News

Cathy A. Nichols

and several other potential sites in Asia and Europe are being investigated. For Nichols, who is responsible for 8,000 employees and capital expansion projects exceeding $4 billion, overseeing this phenomenal growth, continually refining... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

13 Jul 2011
News

China Boot Camp

Accounting and Management Unit, Srinivasan says that his research received an immediate boost from the trip. “I have a couple of projects on securities markets and financial reporting in China that have come into sharper focus since the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families

Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996, AM 1998) helps indigenous forest dwellers and their families in central Mexico stay on their land and thrive financially while also safeguarding their local environment. As founder of Green and Tapped Indigenous Community, Arias-King created... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Sail Away

events, such as Rio de Janeiro during carnaval, Sydney on New Year’s Eve, and Cannes during its film festival. “The beauty behind this product is that it is a global product,” said David Robb (MBA ’93), chairman of Utopia Residences. The current economic climate and... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality; Real Estate

03 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

and its subsequent market performance. The project revolves around data from the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation where tens of thousands of people trade movie stocks every day. In another project, with Josh... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
Supplement

Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla

Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The... View Details

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Purchase

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52626 Harvard Business School Case 217-071 GE Capital After the Crisis Keith Sherin, CEO of GE Capital, faced a decision on which hinged billions of dollars and the fate of one of America’s most storied companies. On his... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

her to help them get inside the minds of undecided voters in swing states. So Hessan joined the campaign. She kicked off a voter research project that is now extended well beyond the 2016 election. Her approach is qualitative. She's in... View Details

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

operations of three exemplary global companies (two headquartered in the U.S., one in Latin America). The project looks at how the "giants" are transforming themselves in light of their continuing and increasing global scope,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

that if she lost her job, she couldn't pay her children's school fees or pay for a doctor," says Pomeranz, an assistant professor in entrepreneurial management at Harvard Business School. “How can we understand what projects work to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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