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01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

poetry and their joint love for music. After a tragic shipwreck tore them apart, Kate’s life dramatically shifted focus. She waged a battle against misogyny to help provide women with the education they deserved. Compelling and... View Details

12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

to Saudi Arabia, where they lived in exile for nearly a decade. They eventually returned to Pakistan, and she was given the opportunity to follow her brother to the United States for education and eventually attend Cornell University.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

16 May 2017
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Facing the Board

startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

02 Nov 2020
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WE RISE

When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

problems. We say “unsolvable” because communities around the world face such daunting, complex problems - ranging from providing safe, healthy water and food for all, to ensuring educational and economic opportunity - and it can be easy... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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What Makes Israel Tick?

Israel is a paradox. It’s small, lacking in natural resources, preoccupied with security, and highly diverse. Yet it generates an outsized number of start-ups, attracts huge sums of venture capital, lures corporations to set up research facilities, and boasts some of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

anchoring, and loss aversion is key to generating returns on the investment side and educating clients on the advisory side. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207084 Board of Directors of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2021
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A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

What's your story? Gana: I grew up in Cameroon, in a town called Douala. My grandfather made the importance of education and how it impacts your life front and center. I grew up with my parents working, my dad in the petroleum industry,... View Details

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Product Management - Course Catalog

Educational Objectives: A Product Manager is obsessed with the problem their product tries to solve and works to both define the product’s functional requirements and lead cross-functional teams to develop, launch and improve their... View Details

Career Coach

Hillary Mann

Hillary Mann (MBA, Babson ’15; University of Michigan ’04) is a Corporate Relations Director who manages relationships with organizations in Consumer Products, Retail & Luxury Goods, Hospitality, Agribusiness, and Sustainability. Hillary brings over 10 years of... View Details

Keywords: Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education

12 May 2010
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How Big Business Can Regain Legitimacy

Keywords: Professor Michael Porter; Educational Services; Educational Services

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big

says Howe. "As HBS grads, we have a sense of duty to dream big." That sense, as anyone who's walked the Soldiers Field campus can attest, comes from the School's mission—to educate leaders who make a difference in the world—and is fueled... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

example, the Rock Center Fellows Program subsidizes students working on an existing startup or launching their own, and the Career and Professional Development Fellows program aids career changers, such as those interested in the luxury... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research By: Serafeim, George Abstract—A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Departments | Employment

constituents A motivated self-starter Someone who enjoys adding structure and creating new processes and programs What makes it challenging to work in the Business and Environment Initiative? As a new and very small department, our environment can be compared to a... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

possible. How do you use what you learned at HBS in your current work? The first few years were mostly about coding and building the product, but as we scale the team and grow an ecosystem of people that build apps or plugins for others on Bubble, my HBS View Details

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

differences between putting for par and birdie and performance under pressure. Read the paper: http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol7/iss1/5/ Scanning the Commons? Evidence on the Benefits to Startups Participating in Open Standards Development... View Details

14 Oct 2010
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Jobs Bill Misses Mark

Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a midterm election. But HBS professor Josh Lerner contends it’s... View Details