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07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

Shivaratri Snan bathing day on March 10. To accommodate everyone, the Indian government creates a temporary city-building roads and providing power on what is normally an empty flood plain. Senior Lecturer and Dauten Real Estate Fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

26 Sep 2018
News

Getting Life Back in Balance

which he started in April 2016, puts his business experience to work, managing everything from roads and cemeteries to libraries and sewerage systems. Within the organization, Gower has focused on increasing workforce morale and fostering... View Details

Portrait Project

Alok Sanghvi

"Drive a red Porsche" is probably what I would have responded 15 years ago. Back then I fully expected to be a lawyer, married, and able to dunk a basketball by now. Well, things have changed since my days of ripped jeans. Today, I'm more concerned with the... View Details

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Mora Segal

opportunities as they presented themselves, like participating in two presidential campaigns and starting a magazine for high school athletes. NOW's 1980 poster-girl for dreams has long since grown up, but she has yet to figure out what she wants to be. I may still... View Details

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Inigo Amoribieta

I plan to travel far. Our world today is one of superstar athletes, teenage popstars, business executives, news reporters, and central bankers. One where we value people by the end points they reach in life, but not by the roads they have... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with James Andrew Miller

the curtains.” Miller’s new book fits that successful mold—but comes with a marketing challenge. Powerhouse is about Creative Artists Agency, a powerful force in the entertainment industry but a lesser-known brand than SNL or ESPN. He spent much of the fall on the... View Details

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Jonathan Wilkins

spirit will recover. Should my body stiffen, I will seek to be revived. I will run knowing this race is contingent upon my will rather than my speed. Regardless, I will do my best to remain in my lane and on my course. I will run the race set before me. The View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Thinking Inside the Box

purchase, “the brothers got sidetracked by the boxes in which the treats were shipped, and started down a road that led them from Denver and a world of high finance to Baltimore and a life of corrugated cardboard,” the Baltimore Sun... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

South Asia South Asia Immersion Offers Students Insight on Development in Sri Lanka Pictured: Students in front of a model of the Port City Colombo Project in Colombo, Sri Lanka. During the final leg of a three-country immersive course that explored China’s ambitious... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship

and partner at Goldman Sachs. "It makes sense that our class wanted to fund a chair in entrepreneurship," Corbett told the Bulletin, "because so many of us are now going down that road ourselves." View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

not thought of as being part of the founder DNA, but it is a critical one of for you to have as you’re grappling with this. There are at least two levels of the self awareness. One of them we already talked about a little bit where it’s the awareness of the View Details

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Zachary Surak

little heaven on earth was only a few miles down the road at the college I had grown up visiting — Princeton. "Zack, that's just not going to happen." I wish I could have seen the look on my face. How does someone look when his... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

Assistant Professor Vincent Pons discussed the case he wrote, “Climate Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead,” with students in a Business, Government, and the International Economy class in spring 2019. (photo by Kavita Pillay) Assistant... View Details

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

world. The numbers tell the story: There are approximately 1.2 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and more than 250 million—roughly one in six—are in the US. Each of them spends more time than their drivers would like, either moving... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

28 May 2017
Blog Post

HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

Summer means one thing for the Admissions team at Dillon House: it’s outreach season. Team members head out on the road to spread the word about the HBS MBA and meet with prospective students around the world. Last month Admissions... View Details

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Kenny Salas

have all the skills I need," says Kenny. "I decided that I may not be ready to start a business, but I am prepared to learn. Once you find something you're passionate about, you realize life is too short not to do it." Building a better View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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Joseph Abel

little, it’s very difficult for them to compensate. For them, climate change is a life-and-death issue. The scale of the issue is very different in India. We talk about putting more Priuses on the road [in the United States], but how will... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Code Breakers

equip young women with the necessary skills for the work ahead. “Until we see women making it into positions of power at the same rate as men, we need organizations to help us navigate more challenging roads than the ones men have to... View Details

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