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Career Advancement | Research Associates

support for academic publications—plus a generous Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) benefit toward pre-requisite courses. Research Associates are an integral part of the community who typically complete two, 1-year terms with more than one... View Details

John C. Emery, Sr.

Emery was a pioneer in the early air freight business – first renting space on existing carrier routes and later developing a full line of dedicated aircraft. For almost 40 years, Emery was the largest freight carrier in the world. During... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

Harvard Business School. In an effort to ensure parity and competitiveness among all its teams—and thereby stoke fan interest—the NFL literally shares the wealth: Some 60 percent of its nationally generated... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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4.3 Missing Persons | MBA

4.3 Missing Persons As required under federal law, Harvard Business School immediately will refer to the Harvard University Police Department (“HUPD”) any missing persons report involving a student who lives in on-campus housing. If any... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Richard G. Hamermesh, senior lecturer and instructor for... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

framing an approach attractively, and generally being persuasive. In addition, it can include deciding who should make an opening offer and when, how high or low it should be, and the dynamics of successive counteroffers. The second... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

Portrait Project

Rye Barcott

I quoted a military general in my high school yearbook. I wanted to be a Marine. I sensed how fortunate I was to be born where I was, when I was. I felt a calling. "Duty is the sublimest word in the English language." One of the... View Details

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Hiroshi Mikitani

richest person in Japan. His skills as an entrepreneur became legend in his home country and around the world. Given the challenges entrepreneurs face in Japan—a dearth of venture capital, daunting government regulations and the aforementioned View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

industry. Before RMI, I worked for a distributed generation developer that specializes in combined heat and power and ground source heat pumps where I was part of their analytics team, constructing renewables. How did you become... View Details

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More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) | Working Knowledge

Money can provide calm and control, allowing us to buy our way out of unforeseen bumps in the road, whether it’s a small nuisance, like dodging a rainstorm by ordering up an Uber, or a bigger worry, like handling an unexpected hospital bill, says Harvard View Details

07 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events

If you are looking to engage with Harvard Business School students and share why your company is a great place to work, consider hosting a company event. The key to a successful event is the dialogue between students and recruiters.... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the management team. Also during this time, a frightening family incident helped shape Marcelo’s future. While... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Alumni Books Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams by Evan Baehr (MBA 2011) and Evan Loomis (Harvard Business Review Press) Now that you have your big idea, how will you find and... View Details

Fred J. Borch

During his ten years as CEO, Borch invested heavily in three major areas – computers, nuclear power and commercial jet engines. His investments, especially in jet engines, paid off handsomely for General Electric. Through his efforts,... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

direct; 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time; and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not during the decision process. On the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Cristiana Torres

Cristiana Torres' great-grandfather built a textile mill in Barcelos, Portugal, a family business that her father ran, her brother worked for, and Cristiana was expected to join. Midway through her undergraduate years, however, the View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Intriguing Questions

hiding it. The third lesson is that the success of a business person cannot be viewed through the narrow lens of financial wealth, but through a broader moral lens to examine the impact their actions have had on the ways View Details

Career Coach

Kartik Sahni

Kartik is a joint degree student at HBS & HKS. He has extensive experience in impact investing, venture capital, public policy and non-profit/philanthropy sectors. He has worked in general management (as Chief of Staff of a $400mn... View Details

24 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Organization

whether business school was right for me, I was inspired by Luis Ubiñas (HBS alumni keynote), who challenged all attendees to ‘become the Latino leaders of our generation that were not prevalent within our... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation

and corporate and real estate taxes. According to Genta, Monaco’s business model is based mainly on real estate—among the most expensive in the world—representing 20 percent of the country’s GDP. EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION READ MORE... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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