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21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights

achieve his Seven Summits goal is also what ultimately drove him to both HBS and Goldman Sachs. Born in Frankfurt and raised outside of New York City, he earned degrees in mechanical engineering at the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf

Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Dec 2010
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Harvard Business School Names New Kaplan Life Sciences Fellows

01 Dec 2020
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In the Zone

its goal.) “Being able to hand over a check to communities outside of New York, and knowing those resources will reach the hands of those most in need, was a very special moment,” he observes. HCZ’s formal support of communities beyond... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

01 Jun 2011
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New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

10 Apr 2018
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New Baker Library Exhibit Celebrates 50th Anniversary of African-American Student Union

01 Jun 2006
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HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

was very different from how I had been educated in the past." Johnston found the HBS technology courses eye-opening. "There was an element of precision, but most of what we talked about was how companies had made significant changes in the world," he says. "Using... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

29 Jul 2020
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How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive in a New Era of Uncertainty

01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

more than thrive. Now she’s bringing that exper-tise to bear on a new shift in business: the “greening” of the global economy. After 21 years as a management professor at MIT’s Sloan School, Henderson arrived on the HBS campus this fall... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley