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26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

is the opportunity for these wonderful entrepreneurs to earn and return to those investors." Organized by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Springboard Enterprises, in tandem with the Center for Women & Enterprise, a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

organizations with expertise in economic cluster development. The nonprofit NGO has ties to 9,000 practitioners in development agencies, government departments, cluster organizations, academic institutions, companies, and multilateral... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me.” Read More Take a Seat in the Case Method Classroom The case method presents big challenges confronting organizations - including the constraints and incomplete View Details

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

and keywords , and it allows you to send personalized messages. Include as much information as possible in your job description: details on projects, what skills you’re looking for in a candidate, who does well at your organization, etc.... View Details

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

information provided by office culture is gone. You could wear your best suit and have a two-hour meeting in the middle of the day with the C-suite of your firm’s biggest competitor without anyone being the wiser. Pause for a moment and... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others; 2) Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

and our profit centers to be as flexible as the small companies they’re competing against. So that led to a system where we operate more like a partnership than a very structured, bureaucratic company. It’s a very flat organization where... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

March 2020
Case

Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug that would help prevent View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

experience at GE can teach large organizations about overcoming barriers to innovation. READ MORE Dan Morrell: What made you want to stay at GE and make your career there? What was enticing about the mission and the work? Jeff Immelt:... View Details

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

that. Really hard, kind of walking around with the knowledge of who was going to lose their positions and after I got through that I had a hard time pulling myself out of it and focusing on future growth of the organization and rallying... View Details

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

iPod. As I finished writing Speed Trap, the music industry was celebrating the shutdown of Napster, and the major labels were busy organizing their own download services. A few months later, like a bolt out of the blue, Apple launched the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

27 Jan 2016
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A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

the organization we actually want to have a leader that’s less risk averse willing to take on these risks to innovate,” Minor says. Maybe there’s a tradeoff here to consider, he continues. “As you get someone who’s much more willing to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

emotional feeling of guilt. The researchers asked 67 college undergraduates to complete a series of tasks that involved recalling past guilt-inducing behavior, confronting an opportunity to cheat, and choosing whether to eat a piece of chocolate or an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

they offered me a job in a sort of informal publisher’s training program. The plan was for me to start in circulation, rotate through the different business functions and, if I was any good, eventually become publisher of a magazine or... View Details

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company management to... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA

Frequently Asked Questions Application: General What is the timeline for applying? How will my application be evaluated? In which part of the application may I enter additional information, including special circumstances? How do I add new View Details

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