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Charlotte MacDonald

treadmill, inertia would take its course." Pursuing the MBA would represent an opportunity to step out in many directions at once. "I wanted to take time to experience a ton of different industries, different people, as fodder for what I'd View Details

Keywords: Consulting

Portrait Project

Ryan Yu

numbers and figures on white paper. One year before HBS, without any coding experience, I stumbled into a data science startup. Confronted by a dark screen awaiting instructions, I felt like a kid in a factory, lost and out of place, yet... View Details

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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

wrappers. When using NoMachine, the default submission scripts run in the background and the interface appears like your desktop. When using pre-defined Unix command wrappers, the scripts are similar to the Unix command line. The user... View Details

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Peter Gumulia

navigate the gray areas, there’s something to be said about the case method, in which you sit in a classroom of ninety-four people and hear perspectives that represent a multitude of industries, countries, and experiences. It’s a lot like... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide data... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

with ethnic Indians in other countries 32% (9 percentage points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects make clear that the Indian diaspora was not a very... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

assumption many people may have is that in a crisis, like an acquisition, adversity undermines diversity,” Zhang says. “But disruption creates possibility for a positive change. When the old ways are not working, we need to shake things... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Working Groups Update | About

within and across groups based on considerations like our calendar, complexity, and a range of other factors. These plans complement other work done over the break—including in the MBA Program, for example, to incorporate lessons from the... View Details

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

MBA, you are likely thinking about what repayment might look like post-graduation. HBS graduates pursue careers in a variety of industries and positions around the world. With a median starting salary of... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization

democratized; accessed by a large percentage of employees, who consider it as ordinary as “running the numbers.” At the final stage, companies become a true experimentation organization, says Thomke. “It’s a little like breathing. People... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

them the credibility and the know-how to encourage similar shifts among their suppliers. At the end of their value chain, Arla also considered how their operational sustainability initiatives earned them the credibility and trust with consumers to make changes View Details

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Outdoor Spaces | About

Outdoor Spaces The founders of HBS created a unique context for management education—one in which the physical environment reflects and reinforces the School’s participant-centered learning model through a residential campus. Outdoor spaces, much View Details

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

the financial crisis, companies like New Century Financial or Countrywide Financial built their success by incentivizing their employees on volume--to sell as many mortgages as possible with little regard for quality—and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

think about my professional life, but also about my personal life - whether it is discussing more delicate societal issues within the classroom or outside, unexpectedly bonding over deep life experiences with people from South Korea or South Carolina, learning about... View Details

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

HBS African American Student Union

extra-curricular activities. Clubs also sponsor a variety of events such as workshops, speakers, and conferences that provide distinct opportunities for learning, networking, and socializing outside of the classroom. As part of our MBA Voices blog we View Details

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

quality, such as requiring reviewers to create publicly available profiles, and identifying some as "elite reviewers" based on their number of reviews, so users can give them extra weight. Holding users accountable with social networking tools makes Yelp... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

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