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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

deadlines, and short-term and intermediate goals, to increase quality and effectiveness of the product and the experience Make sure that program staff can dedicate time to the project as well, and is positioned to continue/ implement the work after the student leaves... View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers University of Pennsylvania Health System V Vecna Technologies Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. Visiting Nurse Service of NY Vizient W Wellcare Health Plans, Inc. Withings - Digital Health Z Zimmer Inc. Ziqitza Healthcare, Ltd. # 10X... View Details

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

the schoolyard.) He traces his disciplined approach to the financial world and some of his financial smarts as a hedge fund guru back to chess. And he’s quite certain it was chess that brought his grades from a D average in high school to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Report 2020 Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon Reith Lectures 2020 – How We Get What We Value Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

those communities can offer frank feedback on the organization's work. Ebrahim's research suggests that measuring results is valuable as a discipline for nonprofit managers, even if they don't find universal metrics for social impact. "It... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Feb 2020
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A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

separate ways. By our senior year, somehow we’d managed to share two disciplines and never sit a course together. We’d both been committed to the local sustainable food movement. We’d spent three years hanging out in neighboring houses,... View Details

14 Feb 2019
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LOVE At HBS

kids sometimes means disciplining them, letting them struggle and occasionally asking them to do things they don’t want to do. However, despite the challenges of parenthood I’ve found that my capacity to love expands every day. My love... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

but unique specialty component from an Asian company with a plant in China that has shut down. Supply chain managers who previously focused their attention one or two levels down into their supply chains will have to go back to work and develop the systems and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2018
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Innovation Outside the Boundaries

O’Leary, who serves on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards. “That speaks to the long-term value of taking risks and trying new ideas in crafting the MBA curriculum.” O’Leary and Thiry also appreciate the growing emphasis on interdisciplinary learning at Harvard.... View Details

08 Mar 2022
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Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

logic-and-analysis backed argument. In my next role I’ll be consulting for senior or executive leaders—they will have many questions and I must have organized answers. With the case method I have been exposed to different disciplines in... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2015 Management Science Meritorious Service Award. Stefan H. Thomke : Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Economics by the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 2015. Stefan H. Thomke : Finalist for the 2014 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from... Initiatives focus on societal challenges that... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Management 2 results Amy W. Schulman General Management Lumumba B. Seegars Organizational Behavior 1 result Debora L. Spar General Management 2 results Sandra J. Sucher General Management 6 results Matthew C. Weinzierl Business, Government and the International Economy... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

from “ Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5° C ,” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2018, accessed October 8, 2019. “ Electricity Generation Sector Summary ,” Project Drawdown, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019. Initiatives focus on societal challenges... View Details

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much, both about myself and...... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

to solve for the scale of local news that we need. That’s why we think it’s important to bring in the capital piece. The other important reason to have capital as a tool in the rebuild-local-news tool belt is that it definitely encourages a business-model View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

17 Jun 2017
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Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

06 Apr 2023
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Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

of what would soon become one of the most life-changing experiences in my undergraduate career. I arrived in Boston the first week of June and commenced SVMP with a robust cohort of 180 fellow students, representing excellence from a wide array of universities and... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke 25 Jan 2023 Women, Work, and the “M” Word Jannine Versi Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ,” Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), May 29, 2019. “ The effects of climate change ,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration... View Details

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