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Technical Requirements Enrollment Academics Learning Tracks Costs, Grants & Financial Aid HBS Online for Organizations Certificates Pathways to Business Overview How are HBS Online courses delivered? We offer self-paced programs (with... View Details

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How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

interpersonal skills often." Grant Stanley said "rather than dismiss them I have been able to use their skills and abilities to create training materials to share their best practices." Todd Stark mused about how much we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2007
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How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

course and priorities. As Brady Finney put it, " companies growing value the most are the ones with leaders that have a clear vision, continually communicate that vision, and then get out of the way ." On the other hand, theater plays a role. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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CORe Undergraduate Credit | HBS Online

financial aid award toward the cost of CORe. The eight credits will count toward your enrollment status and should be reflected in the number of credits reported in your aid application supplement. Financing Options & Grants - More... View Details

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Jennifer Wu

whom I have taken for granted all along. A sense of shame washed over me, as I recalled the many times I yelled at Mom and Dad in arguments and prioritized my needs over theirs. That was the moment I decided to return home after HBS. I... View Details

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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

to accidental deletion or corruption, please contact RCS . Requesting a Project space Project spaces can be set up with faculty sponsorship and/or approval by filling out the New Project Space Request Form . The default size is 50GB, with increases View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

over the past 30 years. It has created a research network connecting patients, scientists, and clinicians, and increased multidisciplinary care at 32 Centers of Excellence at US hospitals. Cure HHT has recently turned $2M in seed grants... View Details

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

Extension Field Station in Lake Placid, New York. “Mike was already working with grants from the state of New York to expand its maple industry,” Turner explains. “Senator Chuck Schumer was among those who believed this was the only... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 May 2021
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Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

support. 34 In the first half of the century, wealthy family funds like the Rockefeller Brothers, Inc. (later Venrock) provided the majority of investments for private companies. ARD would be one of the first firms to grant private equity... View Details

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

Jr. makes a $5 million grant to build Aldrich Hall , which features horseshoe-shaped classrooms—a revolutionary design at the time—that facilitate case-based learning. 1950 The Kresge family makes a $2 million gift to construct a dining... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of Arts and Sciences in 2000. 1991 Kathleen L. McGinn : Recipient of a 1991 Dissertation Grant from the Media Management Center, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Kathleen L. McGinn : Winner of the 1991 State Farm... View Details

05 Mar 2019
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Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

school at Harvard is not cheap. The great news is that both HBS and HLS are exceptional at supporting veterans through the financial aid process. Many veterans qualify for educational assistance programs through the VA. HLS and HBS match Forever/Post-9/11 GI Bill... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

keep up with the demand to treat patients every day. And that’s why Partners in Health turned to the straightforward time-driven activity-based costing system to measure the cost of treating a patient, with the help of a grant from the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

High Distinction (1979) and a DBA (1992) from Harvard Business School. He was granted tenure at the School in 1998 and named to a chaired professorship in 2001. “Clayton Christensen was one of the world’s greatest scholars on innovation... View Details

01 Nov 2022
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Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

unemployment rate, more than 4 million unfilled jobs, and millions of employed people debating just how much they want to work in their post-pandemic lives. The unfilled jobs exist even in the face of the fact that the US has granted... View Details