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- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
As an Indian national who was working in the Middle East in the petroleum industry, my decision to apply for an MBA was fueled (pun intended) by two reasons. One was the obvious need to get a business perspective after staying in the technical domain and the View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
With both of mine, I had great conversations explaining why I wanted to go to HBS, which I think were ultimately helpful in crafting my own application. Sam: Select recommenders who know you well enough to tell a story that covers your... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Blog Post
Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience
others - one of which is the Partner’s Club. During our second year, I joined the leadership team. The Partner’s Club is a great way to meet other couples across campus and explore Boston through their fun... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
immigrant who shrewdly spotted an opportunity in the nascent steel industry and became one of the richest men in his adopted country. Carnegie's era also saw an unprecedented explosion of branded consumer goods, among them Ivory Soap, Coca-Cola, and Campbell Soup. My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
someone who thinks a high percentage of managers steal from their companies is more likely to do so himself—and you ask the same question in a variety of ways. The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab also collects a second level of data on the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
my second semester at HBS, I vividly recall the application process. For prospective students, I have a few words of advice. Before you even start to think about why your dream school is such a great fit,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The second in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1987, H. Perry Driggs, Jr. (MBA '61), has been president of Great Lakes Capital Corporation in Farmington... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. "It's a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and rigorous analysis," Edmondson notes. "But it's a... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
I thought I was a great fit.” A half-hour later, Noa got a response; a week later, the two met in New York. “It just rolled from there,” says Noa. Over the next two-and-a-half months, Noa went through eight to ten interviews with everyone... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 30 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
4 Ways I've Changed at HBS
leader I wanted to be was not necessarily the same leader I actually was. A great opportunity therefore emerged for me to realize that I am a “leader in progress.” I found that leadership, regardless of style, is reliant on people rather... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
There are so many reasons I’m proud to be involved in Learning Express Toys. For one, our stores do so much for their communities. Aside from providing a great assortment of educational and specialty toys, they also offer services such as... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
The HBS Community - Student Initiatives
discussions start with these topics, they end up moving in a variety of directions based on the different backgrounds and interests of the dinner guests. The group is always a random mixture of second year students (ECs), first year... View Details
- Web
Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Exploring Trade Links in the Interior After the Second Opium War (1856-1860), the opening of new ports and riverways sparked tremendous growth in trade. Westerners now ventured from the treaty ports into the interior of China where they... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
process was the financing of projects. I wanted to learn more about that aspect, so I decided to apply to business school because I thought there would be no better place to learn about it. I decided to come to HBS and there have been so many View Details