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- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
and employee reactions. Managers must prepare for the communications challenges brought on by a new lingua franca system and watch for coping aids used by employees to avoid embarrassment, such as not attending meetings. Create a safe... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Aug 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we... View Details
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
“headphones,” with suggested refinements like “noise-cancelling headphones,” aided by images and text. Farronato wrote the paper with Lu Fang and Zhe Yuan of Zhejiang University; Yanyou Chen of the University of Toronto; and Yitong Wang,... View Details
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
hire from the high caliber pool of professionals returning to work after a career break. iRelaunch supports a community of over 110,000 professionals in all stages of returning to work after career breaks from one to over 20 years with a wide range of resources to... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 06 Aug 2023
HBS Information Session in Tokyo
Join us for an in-person information session co-hosted by the HBS Japan Research Center and the HBS Club of Japan. This event will be a great opportunity to learn more from local alumni and current students about the MBA program, life at HBS, and financial View Details
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
writings of the social reformer Jacob Riis, Herbert focused on public housing, child labor laws, minimum wages, unemployment relief, and aid for disabled children, the blind, and mothers with young children. He was also an early advocate... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
+ – Business Analytics participants may be eligible for financial aid based on demonstrated financial need. To receive financial aid, you will be asked to provide supporting documentation. Please refer to our Payment & Financial View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
or install lights. In this, canal employees were greatly aided by the peculiar place the canal held in America's national mythology. Conservatives who would have been horrified at employee capture of other public enterprises such as, say,... View Details
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The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we... View Details
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Events - Business History
whether digital techniques simply aid us in confirming our hypotheses with more or better visualized data or whether digital approaches can enable us to ask radical new questions. Mar 27 27 Mar 2017 Conference Stakeholder Capitalism in... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
awarded each year? There is not a specific number of annual fellowship awards. A small number of fellowships have been awarded each year (less than 7). Must I have received need-based financial aid from HBS order to qualify for GO? While... View Details
- 14 Nov 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we... View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
cost of college. But Beshears and his colleagues found the most cost-effective way to increase college enrollment was just to make applying for financial aid easier. A 2012 study worked with tax preparer H&R Block to pre-fill the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
inspired by the war in Ukraine. Proceeds from the sale of those works totaled just under $150,000 and benefited Ukrainian aid organizations. A similar sense of kismet runs through the other branches of Hartley’s remarkable career: US Navy... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Projects - Business History
special issue of Business History Review, the creation of a new finding aid to the archival collection, and two academic conferences focused on the early modern origins of capitalism. Harvard Program on the Study of Capitalism Through a... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
Having uncovered the scope of discrimination taking place against Black guests and hosts on Airbnb, researcher Michael Luca and his colleagues put together a toolkit to aid managers in recognizing and mitigating discrimination on online... View Details
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details