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- 02 Oct 2020
- News
Building a Just and Climate-Ready Economy in a Post-COVID World
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
their classroom training as they explore... Insights on the Art of Driving Performance and Innovation Annabelle Cloutier 17 Jun 2024 Annabelle Cloutier is Head of Strategy, Communications and Corporate Governance at Canada’s Natio... DNPIV Perspectives: Bonnie... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- News
On the Vineyard, Black Alumni Reconnect With Friends and HBS
The summer weather could not have been better on August 9, when 180 HBS alumni and guests converged on Martha’s Vineyard for “HBS on the Vineyard: A Summer Reception,” an event co-hosted by HBS External Relations and the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a Process Engineer at... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
prospective college athletes, enabling them to successfully navigate college recruiting, and preparing them to succeed as collegiate student-athletes. By informing the college decision process and teaching skills to balance school and... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"―delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments―makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Rahmandad, Hazhir, Nelson P. Repenning, and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-027, October 2014.
- April 2004
- Case
D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer
By: Alan D. MacCormack, Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca Henderson
D-Wave Systems is a start-up seeking to commercialize a quantum computer. Its business model is unique: as of 2003, it had very few technical resources within the firm. Instead, it financed a series of projects undertaken at universities and government labs. In return... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Engineering; Investment; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Research and Development; Commercialization; Computer Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., Ajay Agrawal, and Rebecca Henderson. "D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer." Harvard Business School Case 604-073, April 2004.
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
focused on are his underlying motivations for starting a business. From the onset he was driven by personal fulfillment, a desire to build something for his family, and controlling his own destiny. For Linzmeyer, control meant being able... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school, and college at Smith College in... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
43 zip codes. Trey was recently named Social Innovator of the Year—Audience Choice by the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. Our next project, called Trey SZN 3, is our most ambitious yet. In March 2021, Trey will launch a virtual... View Details
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni
Abilities Identifying resources and supports are critical throughout the recruiting process, but there is also one piece of advice that alumni all shared in different ways, best summed up by O’Grady. “If I could go back and speak to... View Details
- 2022
- Book
A Political Economy of Justice
By: Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson and Joshua Simons
Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Social Justice; Capitalism; Business And Society; Economy; Society; Fairness; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
Allen, Danielle, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Joshua Simons, eds. A Political Economy of Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
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Bequest - Alumni
class receives credit for the full amount of your intended gift (starting in the 50th reunion year) John C. Whitehead Society Recognizing alumni and friends who make planned gifts to HBS Learn More Donor Stories Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
by their B2B supply-chain focus,” Sani shared. “The importance of reducing food waste also hit me like a sack of potatoes. About a third of food created is wasted. Not only does that make it more difficult to feed the earth’s growing... View Details
- December 2019 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
A Short Note on Fiduciary Duties
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Rebecca Henderson and Amy W. Schulman
Goldberg, Lena G., Rebecca Henderson, and Amy W. Schulman. "A Short Note on Fiduciary Duties." Harvard Business School Technical Note 320-079, December 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
- 19 May 2016
- News
Faculty Offer Words of Wisdom for Graduates
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. Rebecca View Details
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Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research
By: Jeffrey Furman, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn and Rebecca M. Henderson
Furman, Jeffrey, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research." Annales d'économie et de statistique, nos. 79-80 (July–December 2005).
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
kind of careful consideration that normally goes with a significant career change, I wouldn't have done it," says the St. Paul, Minnesota, native. Cox attributes winning the election to his ability to differentiate himself from his competition View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined forces at ICV Partners, a middle-market minority owned private... View Details