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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog
seminars supplement the project work and allow the class to come together to engage with industry leaders, protagonists, and asset allocators. Students will learn first-hand the challenges and issues surrounding the diligence of an... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
identical, and every effort of every man and woman in the company is focused on satisfying those needs."5 Accordingly, the most critical decision in designing any organization is deciding who the primary customer is: the person or... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
particular role or position given my prior work experience, I may be interested in leveraging knowledge gained at HBS to explore making an impact in a different role or function. Eliminate friction. I always appreciate recruiters, hiring managers, and View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
educational programs, intellectual ambition for widespread impact, internationalization for global understanding, inclusion to enhance culture and community, and integration with Harvard University. “Alumni and close friends of the School were extremely insightful and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of business and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
its wealth; what will save us now is technology and innovation,” added Wolfensohn, chairman of Wolfensohn & Company and former president of the World Bank. Creative Capitalist: In his conversation with HBS professor emeritus James Cash,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
Events Recap Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity HBS Alums on the Future of the Board Room (and How to Get There) Joining a corporate board can mean making a lasting impact on companies of the future. Getting your first board seat,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
investors and those in the private sector would understand. “For those of us with a nonprofit background, we need to translate the things we have done when talking with companies who are hiring for roles in the private sector,” Mbanusi... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
and) directly create millions of new US mfg jobs " Mark Clark expressed concerns about the link between inequality and democracy, advancing a proposal that might also address some concerns about productivity and inequality. As he put it, "A foundational step... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Prita Kumar
private equity. Her focus was on consumer retail, her personal passion, and all that talk around the dinner table helped shape her vision as an emerging entrepreneur. “It just made sense to start something that was consumer facing and health-related because I had... View Details
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
remote manner: conducting research, developing cases, and bringing the resulting insights into every program. All across the world, companies were similarly innovating in response to the pandemic—and illuminating the many great things... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks Coffee Company; and Michael Dell, of Dell Computer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507024 Lobbying Harvard Business School Note 707-471 Describes how companies engage the political and legal system and the rules and ethics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Structure How should companies behave in such an environment? Clearly, refusing to pay or receive bribes and acting according to high ethical standards is the best course of action. But operating in the real world is a complicated matter,... View Details