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Commencement 2015 Address | About

Commencement 2015 Address Play Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 28 May 2015 Class of 2015, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community. Good afternoon and welcome. Every graduating class has some... View Details

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and insurance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was appalled. I was in the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

positioning and appeal? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515075-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-051 Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovations in Education No abstract... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2015
News

The Ingredients for Success

analysis showed that the biggest need was more basic. “There’s a significant unmet demand for restaurant workers,” she said. The culinary school will be housed in a failed venture in downtown New Orleans known as ArtWorks that cost... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

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

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

social returns – ensuring strong financial performance that maintains their AAA-rating and a low cost of capital, but also fulfilling the World Bank Group’s mandate of poverty elimination. The IFC will truly put my joint degree education... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

19 Jan 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

background offered me one of the best training programs in engineering, I knew I would need to add an MBA to my courses to be a leader in the aerospace industry. The French education system separates the management and business track from... View Details

31 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Building a DTC Brand Through COVID

is buying clothes - I didn’t need an HBS education to teach me that. Despite all the questioning and concerned are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this looks from family, I took the plunge into the unknown world of entrepreneurship. My Vision... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Ruling from the Bench

sharpened my analytical skills, which was invaluable for law school and beyond,” she says. “I also greatly enjoyed the courses on organizational behavior and production — some of those lessons were useful later on, when I had to preside... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

Retired President, Consumer Sales & Services, Verizon Communications Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Briarcliff College, 1968 B.A., International Relations LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Leadership matters.... View Details

19 Feb 2014
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Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

hope the School’s researchers will make a record of the number of MBAs from HBS and other leading business schools at each level of the companies and government agencies that have played a role in the demise of our financial system. How... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

and hugging us. It was an incredible moment. Odom on the flight deck Courtesy Brett Odom A 1992 graduate of Annapolis and the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons (“Top Gun”) School for the top 1 percent of Navy and Marine Corps pilots, Lieutenant... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

that our finance professor in first year was Andre Perald, who had been teaching at the school since the 1970s, so I'm sure many of you had him. And he was like a real figurehead and a really wise, profound professor. He was able to teach... View Details

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 21 Nov 2024 How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters Jess Hopper Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies If you’re a Harvard Business School alumnus, you’ve... View Details

27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813113-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History The Harvard Business School Creating Emerging Markets project (CEM), in collaboration with the HBS India... View Details

04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

candidates looking for executive positions to join in before finally short-listing them for the interview." Surprisingly, relatively few suggested that the shortage of attitude might be addressed through formal education. Stever Robbins commented, "Attitudes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann

marketing to them. I had the opportunity to work with brands on exclusive show sponsorships, large tentpole events and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation to restore public school music programs. When my husband and I moved to Boston, I... View Details

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