MBA applicable - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

with Kim and Tyler, the MBA students who created these events. What inspired you to create these two new events? Kim: Tyler and I are very passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Both of us are on the AASU board, and Tyler is... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

Fellowship is its vision to connect MBA students from different schools who are passionate about climate. The application is open to all MBA students across the world, which is... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online

for loan certification. Only loans sent via this system to Harvard Business School Online (school code 002155-92) will reach us. We won't be able to see, or certify, loans sent to other school codes, including those sent to the HBS MBA... View Details

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

reasonable steps to ensure that the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of alcohol otherwise complies with applicable law and University policy. A. Alcohol Service for HBS Events All alcoholic beverages at events on the HBS campus... View Details

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with industry projects." "One... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details

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Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct | About

prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in employment; and Massachusetts laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It does not preclude application or enforcement of other... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees, earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

role in society surfaces throughout Keen’s story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf’s clothing, in effect. But Keen received... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he has been a go-to consultant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus and beyond. The LASO Board is led by the club’s three Co-Presidents – Camila Diaz, Evelyn Ramirez, and... View Details

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

unlikely to respond to methods aimed at improving behavioral problems.” CLT commented: “The refusal of an applicant to honor a policy is (more than) reason enough to dismiss the applicant from further... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Business School whose former students James Reinhart and Chris Homer (both MBA 2009) cofounded the company. "Buyers valued the convenience of quicker service and more consistent quality, so thredUP pivoted to a reseller model. From the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

furthering her own organization." Women's World Banking, based in New York, also utilizes a network strategy in its work. When president Nancy Barry (HBS MBA '75) started leading the organization in 1990, it served approximately... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

the official site. For more on the Women's Student Association, visit wsahbsclub.com. Taylor Clarkson Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 Being mixed is a experience shared by many, but discussed by few. My mother is Ukrainian, my father... View Details

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

These Harvard Medical School (HMS) students are already making a difference in the health care community. Now, they are at HBS fine-tuning their leadership skills in preparation of receiving their MD/MBA. Each year, MD/MBA applicants... View Details

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are effective and would appeal to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

the storm. For seasoned leaders, the most applicable are Lessons #5 and #7, "Never waste a good crisis" and "Go on offense: focus on winning now." So often the go-to strategy for veteran leaders when a crisis strikes... View Details