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08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

as joint degree students, sharing insights from their time before and during the MBA program. Swanee Golden (MBA/MPP 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Princeton, New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

vulnerable and medically challenged in our communities. If they want time off, if they want to work from home, if they need to have a little bit of space to look after their family members, please consider... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

Internet—ad serving. The firm sells ad space on the Web sites it represents and has invested heavily in developing technology to deliver targeted ads to these sites, with the simple goal of "making advertising View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

completed, need not detract from productivity if it’s done right,” Amabile says. For managers concerned that offering such activities might lead to distraction or procrastination, they can be offered in public space separate from the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

and the rapid or competitive consumption of alcohol, and their many adverse consequences for students’ health and lives. For faculty and staff, all University employees are prohibited from consuming alcohol or being under the influence of a controlled substance or... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

blurring is a “thorny issue” for employees, forcing people to master an important new “digital social skill”: carefully choosing to share online space with some colleagues and not others, and considering whether the connection will... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Strebulaev. John D. Macomber : Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity (Harvard University Press, 2020) with Joseph G. Allen is one of Fortune ’s Best Books of 2020. Kristin W. Mugford : Received the 2020... View Details

20 Feb 2020
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Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

(DEI) and I’m the co-president of AASU. After we graduate, we’re going to work in those spaces in finance and tech—I’m going into Venture Capital (VC) at Goldman Sachs, and Tyler is heading to Facebook. The... View Details

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

his team were bringing business rigor to the institution.” The inspiration arrived at the most opportune time. “NPR was a formative experience in which I learned two things,” says Mizuho. “First, I discovered that I enjoyed working for a... View Details

21 Nov 2022
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HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

sustainability space and wanted to delve deeper into climate. I also wanted to join this close-knit community of people who care about how we can leverage business to create a more sustainable economy. My goal as a leader is to continue... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

start-ups, and consumer brands and technology. She has worked closely with many founders over the past decade and has collaborated with numerous leading VC and PE firms. Tina enjoys working with start-ups... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

messages in Hindi cinema are universal, and often more uplifting than other stories I consume — they remind me that anything is possible.” Media was an escape: it introduced me to worlds that weren’t my own. Stories create spaces for... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York City and... View Details

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Bryan Stromer

thing you'll be leaving with? One thing I brought to campus is the belief that business and the private sector have a responsibility to ensure that people with disabilities are included in our economy. I have been able to work with the... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

Professor Esty emphasized the importance of having a viewpoint backed up by data—I feel better equipped going into the working world having been forced to reckon with my values and how that applies to corporate policy issues. Why did you... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

a longstanding policy; the reality was, if you had a boss who was homophobic or uncomfortable, it didn’t matter. One of my goals in going to business school was to start my own business, so that my sexuality wouldn’t be an issue. Once I started View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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