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- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
company's stakeholders. Efforts are focused on a single, global corporate brand rather than individual product brands. The payback on marketing expenditures is measured rigorously to the satisfaction of the hard-nosed engineers and finance staff who View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces....
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Kathleen Brill
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Roll the Credits
After a 38-year run as Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, Jack Valenti (MBA ’3/48) announced in March that he will step down as president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Valenti, a Houston native, was a...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
a community-based real estate project in Detroit. The best way I describe the D to people is layered and complex! There’s so much going on – the good, the bad, and the ugly – as the city works to redefine itself. After reaching back...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
helping to run so-called “disruptors.” Yi Chen (MBA 2014) is VP of Product for Toast, Inc., a customizable point-of-sale and management system for restaurants. Nicole Ledoux (MBA 2008) is Co-Founder of 88 Acres, which bakes and...
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
organizations, including nearly three years in the New York City Mayor’s Office, Michael Alan Williams (MBA 2018) found his first post-MBA opportunity with The Kresge Foundation. “It was entirely serendipitous,” Michael says. “I intended to work in community...
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
investing, managing, and developing investments in real estate and private asset backed companies. The course will be divided into three modules. The first module will focus on portfolio construction and understanding investment risks...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
recruiting the very best people and sorting them out as to who is the most effective, then empowering them, and watching closely while they run like hell for victory and achievement. As mentor and protégé, what drew Sidney Weinberg and...
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Finance
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
in Boston. "But I wanted to really learn how to run a nonprofit," she recalls. After considering law school, she applied to HBS because of its increasing emphasis on social entrepreneurship. "I had a mentor who helped me realize that not...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
we had stayed with the old model, we would have run out of money. I distinctly remember advice I heard from investors and founders who had been through another crisis, the 2008 recession: Whatever you did in the past, forget it. That's...
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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
because they believe that the chairman is trying to control the whole show, and so they feel left out. Going back 20 or 25 years, some of us came up with an alternative idea, the creation of a lead or presiding director. With that model,...
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by Jim Aisner
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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
regularity, come back to a set of guiding criteria that connect how human capital is managed with the goal of organizational performance. We will also aim to collectively answer the question: how can I be ready for the way human capital...
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- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
her back in Germany. My efforts paid off - she and I were married this past June in the Bavarian alps. When Duolingo visited campus last October, I figured this could be a good opportunity to get Product Manager (PM) experience (which I...
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Technology
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
forming a new program or initiative and you need to set up a system that can run on its own. Or, number two, you end up starting up a new organization. Both are skills that require entrepreneurship. There are a lot of issues in our world...
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- Portrait Project
Taniel Chan
I was seven. I was oblivious. I threatened to run away from home. I grabbed my Buzz Lightyear and burst out the door. I ran boldly to the front gate and then froze, scared, with nowhere to go. I stood stubbornly for fifteen minutes before...
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Jessica Gelman
When I was twelve years old I wrote my life aspirations in the back of a journal. I wanted to play Division I college basketball. I also dreamed of going to Harvard Business School and envisioned owning a company. Believe it or not, I...
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- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all...
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by Julia Hanna
- Profile
Benjamin Wells
By his junior year of college, Ben Wells knew he was destined to teach. Immediately after graduation, he put his ambitions to the test at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, "a public school run like a private school," Ben...
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Kevin Omwega
"I'm scared," I said, as we walked into our new home. The house had no lights, no furniture, no running water, nothing. My elder brother Eric, who had remained in Kenya when my parents pursued their education in the U.S., stood...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
changing the game for retailers as it turns millions of dollars in losses back to profits for clients on four continents. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s...
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