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08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

to apply to 2+2 because it granted me the flexibility to try new things early in my career, while also allowing me to think strategically about how best to leverage my time at HBS. After working in the social impact space, I decided to... View Details

January 15, 2019
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Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron

The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage

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The Big Five Personality Traits, Material Values, and Financial Well-being of Self-described Money Managers

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Ravi Iyer and Ryan Howell

Previous research has linked personality traits, material values, and money management to savings, debt, and compulsive buying. To extend previous research, four online surveys examined the Big Five personality traits and material values of those who manage their money... View Details

Keywords: Values; Personality; Well-being; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Personal Finance; Money

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01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

fast-paced English is delivered with a German accent. He came to HBS with a grant from the German government after earning a doctorate in political economy from the University of Cologne. Upon receiving an MBA as a Baker Scholar, he... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

research shows that supervisors are actually more willing to grant extensions than employees realize; in fact, they tend to view those who request extra breathing room as highly motivated employees who are intent on producing better... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

today. Meanwhile, from society's point of view, meanwhile, professional closure offers distinct benefits when the privilege of closure is granted in return for the commitments that true professionals make to serve the public good and to... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

marketplace: Businesses will hire workers with criminal records if they have the right incentives and information. “We believe anyone who has the will to work should be granted an opportunity to do so,” he says. View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

actively working on expanding our financial aid offerings and programs' reach, we're currently unable to offer grants for CLIMB. For payment options and loan information, please visit our Payment and Financial Aid page . Can I use... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Thanks to the influence of one of his physics instructors, George W. Wheelwright III, the department granted Land his own laboratory, an unusual resource for a young undergraduate. 11 At a Harvard Physics Colloquium in 1932, Land... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

federal lands were surveyed and one tenth were set aside as land grants for railroad development. After the Civil War, state government subsidies began to be replaced by more substantial federal aid. Other major infusions of capital came... View Details

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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

uncompensated care per year and requiring $11 billion in publicly funded grants for community health centers. The researchers propose offering everyone a basic bundle of health insurance, an approach that has worked for other high-income... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

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Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

for the fund, your role in the fund, and impact of the investments. For applicants either founding their own organization or working at for-profit social enterprises: If you are granted loan assistance, it will be based on the current... View Details

07 Dec 2022
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2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

recent tax credits, loans, and grants passed in Washington will drive innovation, accelerate the transition, and demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a managed transition to a low/no carbon economy. Following the morning keynotes, attendees... View Details

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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

28 Jan 2016
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Why Get an MBA?

There are pros and cons to that reality, but we can be sure it won’t change any time soon. An MBA from HBS would grant me unparalleled access and open doors for anything I want to pursue in the business world, and often beyond.... View Details

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

support as well.” That includes patents that were supported by federal grants and patents that relied on previous patents or publications that the government funded, directly or indirectly. (Yao and his colleagues’ research was itself... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

passed, she wondered if military service could be how she could serve her country—as a first generation American, she had always wanted to give back to the country that granted her family asylum when they fled Cuba in the 1959 communist... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Cambridge Associates, we are helping institutional investors navigate climate risk while funding innovative and scalable market-driven solutions to climate change.” Liqian Ma HBS MBA 2011, Head of Impact Investing Research, Cambridge Associates Valerie View Details

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