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- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
educate young people about the game, get them to play and enjoy it. We’re building future fans and players, so we invest in that.” The panel also shared some trends in Africa that bode well for companies and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
managers? How have your own views changed? Christopher Bartlett: Well, fortunately, the basic argument has held up. But the world has evolved and we do see some new patterns emerging. But first let's focus on the things that have stayed constant. View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
The Energy & Environment Club
Green Bank to operations at Tesla. The 40+ first-year MBA students in attendance were eager to learn what to expect from the internship search cycle, from generating a list of target companies to nailing the interview and accepting the... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Outstanding Research from the Western Finance Association in 2016. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2016 Finanzforum Vordenken Young Innovator Award. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2016 Young Scholars... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
last June, he has been a prime example of the positive results of that litmus test. Daniel first heard of McKinsey & Company at a career panel he attended during his senior year at Wesleyan University, where he majored in mathematics. But... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Nohria’s Next Move
stepped down as HBS Dean in 2020 following 10 years in the office. “I chose Thrive because I was drawn to being more actively engaged in the entrepreneurial arena, something I have always been excited about,” Nohria noted. “And, because Thrive is a View Details
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Marketing Research for "Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand's Social Network on Marketing Outcomes" (with Leslie K. John, Oliver Emrich, and Michael I. Norton, February 2017). 2017 Eva Ascarza : Selected as a Marketing Science Institute View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
broadly, I gained a deeper appreciation of the role that private sector growth plays in economic prosperity in developing countries. I also enjoyed getting exposed to and supporting a wide array of companies in Africa and South Asia. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
pharmaceutical giant one day—not creating a company from scratch. But Goble was determined to explore the wide variety of opportunities available to him in his time at HBS, so when he read about a nonprofit life sciences entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
number of awards, including Best Large Company CEO by Comparably (2023 and 2024), Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, New York, Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and one of the Top 25 Best... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
introduced low cost production methods to manufacture highly accurate quartz watches. Swiss business historians refer to this as the "Quartz Crisis." Companies like Seiko and Casio seized the quartz market. By 1983, two-thirds... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short stories and 78 books, with sales... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands
connected to the type of future I imagined for the coming decades. Although the time went by so quickly, I appreciated how much I saw and learned in such a short amount of time. I left feeling inspired by what other countries are doing in the sustainability space. As a... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
experiences. All their companies had diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and were talking a lot about it. I asked, "How many of you would recommend your company as a place to work for View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
convincing the family and its institution, which remains conservative. She speaks of a "balance" in the company between the family and "professionalism"—a structure shed of family dynasty. Her hope is to push Godrej gradually toward the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
of the world of soccer—or, to my knowledge, in sports as a whole—who comes even close to such a lengthy tenure, let alone the number of titles and trophies he has accumulated," says Elberse, who recently authored a business case on Ferguson. “I think his willingness to... View Details
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Wilder House | About
to HBS, where the legendary Professor Georges Doriot became a key career influence. Wilder quickly worked his way up through the ranks of institutional sales and corporate finance at Wood Gundy & Company Ltd. He was named executive vice... View Details