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04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

Leadership Now Project’s Business for Racial Equity Pledge? Lisa Lewin: It started with a group of friends, fellow senior business executives and HBS alums, all of us members... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health... View Details

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

this stickiest of bottlenecks? Create business partnerships by framing the right questions, says Giusti, and then identifying and combining existing datasets for analysis to answer those questions. The organization also rallies individual... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

situations that many companies faced, and intensified their need for more sophisticated measures that could be used to evaluate and compare many different types of businesses. Since business policy groups at... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

a consultant. They continue to inform my own personal worldview of capitalism, and my own role in shaping society as a future business leader. SBS - Kathy Choi Consultant, Boston Consulting Group The course... View Details

11 Feb 2016
Blog Post

First Came Love, then Came Business School

the aerospace industry. Jocelyne knew for a number of years that she wanted to go to business school – and HBS was the dream. Cory was planning to do his MBA as well, but had no concrete plans until Jocelyne decided to start applying in... View Details

21 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 13, 2008 Moderator: David H. Thomas, HBS faculty... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas

30 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reflecting on AASU50: Advancing African American Business Leadership

Last week, Harvard Business School hosted AASU50, a two-day event commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student Union (AASU) with sessions and events focused on advancing African American View Details

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

successful," says Boris Groysberg, the Richard B. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who cowrote the case with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

interview, we catch up with the group for another update. Not surprisingly, much has changed over the past decade in their households and in their careers. In the profiles that follow, our protagonists once again candidly discuss how they... View Details

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

homeownership fund. He said, “I intend to use my time at HBS to turn my vision for community-centered urban development into an actionable, scalable business model.” Lee Martin (MBA 2026)Lee began a mentorship and tutoring affinity View Details

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

intellectual leadership and research support that accelerates the process of knowledge creation at HBS and leverages the expertise of our facility. We have two groups of scholars: one whose work focuses on the role of View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

broad view of business as business.” As a result, Donham in the early 1930s renewed and elaborated his previous calls for business schools to aid in transforming management into a profession — not a mere... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

30 Jun 2010
News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

Appropriations Committee, Byrd was a master at bringing home the bacon for his constituents, prompting one watchdog group to denounce him as the "King of Pork." By one estimate, he steered $2.26 billion to West Virginia between 2000 and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Both on and off campus, there are many opportunities for students to engage in social enterprise focused activities and community building. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum Through carefully tailored content and small peer group... View Details

April 2015
Case

Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim

Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the... View Details

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20 Sep 2021
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2021, over 60 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details

06 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

Administration at Harvard Business School. Those who arrived between the ages of 14 and 17 fared better than their 18- to 21-year-old counterparts in education, language fluency, careers, and economic well-being over the following... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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