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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges that many other retailers... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
has profoundly changed the way people think about business. What's important about it to me today are its applications as a way to organize society and as a basis for Œe-government' supported by broadband and other technologies.”... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
traveled around the world for 20-minute appointments, but they had received vital advice from specialists in Turin, Helsinki, and Tokyo, where an applicable clinical trial was underway, via the internet. Jarzabek’s idea for Trustedoctor... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
capture a few moments of enjoyment will be key to recovering from the current economic downturn. Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications by C. Martin Webber (MBA ’80) and Patrick... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
also differentiated by percentage of cacao solids, from 50 percent to 70 percent. In her HBS application essays, Endline wrote of wanting to start a business but instead went to Yahoo! as a product manager after graduating. “The company... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
COVID-19. The largest group of Promise applicants at CCRI comes from families making less than $25,000 annually. Can you speak to how the program opens doors for students and provides a boost to local economies? Higher education is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
the MBA Program Office. Admissions As part of its ongoing commitment to attract and admit the best candidates to the School, the MBA Program now requires all applicants to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). "The GMAT... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
you realize he’s writing to the best version of Nero—and that if you do that with everyone, they’ll be that version of themselves more often. Were there any surprise favorites with the students? ED: Cato’s On Agriculture. It’s a back-to-the-land handbook, very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
effective case-method learning, and HBS classrooms are a microcosm of the global economy. The School’s strategic approach to financial aid is two-pronged. First, it enables a wide variety of qualified applicants to attain an HBS... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
School. In retrospect, Rice realizes that he made a number of avoidable mistakes. “I probably didn’t manage the college-to-first-job transition or the B-school application process as rigorously as I should have,” he recalls. “I applied... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Global Internet Practice. He previously served as founder and CEO of an interactive brand marketing consultancy, where he developed patented applications to help corporations build relationships between their brands and their customers in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
funding, Hofmann says. “We hear this a lot from founders in underserved communities. You don’t have to be networked on the West Coast to get an application to us.” Similar logic applies to racial and ethnic diversity. In May, Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
applications that we thought would be so good for society—making things work quicker and faster and cheaper and better for issues like homelessness, the environment, and health—because we need to settle questions around privacy and access... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Each ranking methodology has its own shortcomings/weaknesses. 3. 1 and 2 lead some to state that "the rankings are a trivial piece of information". But what about an equal-weighted average of the rankings by various orgs (say the 4 mentioned in the beginning of this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
that might otherwise have been overlooked. They also make it a little less daunting for organizations' leaders to apply to the program, sometimes by finding exactly the right person for an applicant to speak with. Mike Marriner, cofounder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
wayfinding app, and your digital and mobile alerts. Fans need to know there's contact tracing and there's a way for them to know if someone was infected with COVID and they need to figure out who they interacted with, there's a lot of technology View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
with applications and now employs local residents, many of whom walk to work, with much less turnover than Sprint's suburban call centers. "They took a risk, but it paid off - they now have a solid pool of workers who are very happy to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
applications and used automated processing to get cash out quickly. By the program’s second round, companies such as Square, Kabbage, PayPal, and Intuit became approved PPP lenders and handled a significant share of PPP loans. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg