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18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

Professor Scott Duke Kominers spoke to the Harvard Gazette about why the crypto market has plunged in value recent months and how a tide of upcoming international regulation could affect the market. The... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

industry?I took Strategy and Value Creation with Professor Benjamin Esty. The course is seen as a capstone that utilizes multiple Required Curriculum (RC), or first year, courses to help understand how to create value for companies. When... View Details

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research,... View Details

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

influence on the decision. That’s all well and good—until factors like cultural issues and employee power begin to creep into the picture. For example, the state has had power but only now seems to be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

Known as a persistent advocate of affordable higher education for all, Spangler often spoke of the university in familial terms, emphasizing that "no member of the university family should feel deprived of needed resources." Indeed, in... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

04 Apr 2024
News

The Making of a Medical Milestone

trial in ALS as well. We recently spoke with Dr. Gros, Eledon’s founder and CEO, about tegoprubart’s potential to revolutionize transplant medicine, why he left medicine to become a serial health care... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

experience per se—but for those interests, ambitions, and activities he was most passionate about. Looking back, Kloeblen spoke passionately about a social networking group he had led at IBM. “It was a... View Details

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

restructuring from those technologies, and that affects many parts of the country, especially the hubs for US transportation, such as Denver, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

01 Jun 2011
News

Who Was George F. Baker?

newspaper reporter since 1863,” the year he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank of New York (now Citibank) at age 23. Baker believed in action, not words. And his actions View Details

Keywords: Finance

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George F. Baker & Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Baker Library is named after Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George F. Baker. The Bloomberg Center extension View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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Schwartz Common & Pavilion | About

Schwartz Common & Pavilion About the Space The Schwartz Common and Pavilion were dedicated in 2019 in recognition of a gift from The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation. Representing an outdoor hub... View Details

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Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus

area, with its unique shopping and restaurants, as well as the historic Harvard Yard. Discover Shad Hall HBS offers excellent athletic facilities. The award-winning Shad Hall Fitness Center is the HBS hub... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

astonished," said an engineer interviewed after the announcement. "Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English." “If they don't have a language strategy, they'll regret it” In a company where just 10 percent of all workers at the time View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

special or amiss in reading Shakespeare and writing Chinese poems in school, eating Indian and Malay food at school canteens, and watching the English Premier League at Irish... View Details

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Philippe Rival

birthplace of Louis XIV. It is also a modern international hub in the suburbs of Paris, as illustrated by the school I attended there: the Lycée International. Located just outside the first-ever NATO command base, it was created to... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

our understanding of business' role in society and to develop a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into action. To achieve this mission, w e are focused on three long-term objectives: 1. Build an intellectual View Details

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