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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA

4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy 4.0 General Policies This policy outlines guidance and requirements for and restrictions on demonstrations and other forms of dissent on the Harvard Business School... View Details

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3.0 Business Solutions for the Global Poor General Management, Marketing Kash Rangan Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Business and Geopolitics Business, Government & the International... View Details

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

company, the less likely it is that the company will succeed. "Much of the homophily literature in business research talks about the positive benefits of working with people who are similar to you—ease of communication, comfort level, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business... View Details

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608083 A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star Harvard Business School Case 909-033 General Manager Luke Kolville, of the Los Angeles Spartans, struggles with the best... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Expanding Horizons

opportunity to develop my current book project and to establish a longer-term research agenda. Moreover, I have benefited greatly from the opportunity to work with and learn from leading scholars in the field of business history. The... View Details

Career Coach

Eileen Stephan

challenges MBA students, alumni and other job seekers encounter, and has extensive insight into how businesses approach talent acquisition. Eileen holds a BA in History and International Relations from Boston University. She lives in... View Details

Keywords: Education; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Retail; Social Enterprise

01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'

2:00 that afternoon, closed, worked all night to make more food, and sold out again the next day.” The business grew 8 percent each month for the first fifteen months. For a while, Garner served as chief pasta maker, accountant, and View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

more than $350 million—where she focused on health care technology investments. She was general partner, serving on many private, public, and nonprofit boards, while also raising two boys, now 13 and 15. But after 20 years in the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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

02 Sep 2015
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Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815086-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-018 MedCath Corporation (C) MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Alex Jiang

to Alpha Startup Fund, Alex was Co-Managing Partner at Sinovation Ventures (top tier Chinese VC fund with USD1.5 billion under management across five funds) and General Partner at WI Harper Group (San Francisco, Beijing and Taipei based... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#20;#Ecommerce;#75;#Venture Capital;#47;#International Development

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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing Human Capital Course Number 2060 Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper Career Focus The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future View Details

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Matt Oppenheimer

for Youth. "My initial plan was to spend more time in business directly out of college," Matt says. "But I decided to get my MBA earlier to help me fulfill my nonprofit commitments more effectively." Engaged, energized... View Details

Student-Profile

Omar Olivarez

The seeds of Omar Olivarez’s (he/him) interest in AI and the future of work were planted in an undergraduate course in business analytics and machine learning. After graduating with his BBA, he followed a natural path into industry,... View Details

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Lehman Brothers Records | Baker Library

Lehman Brothers Records The Lehman Brothers Records document the history of the investment banking firm from 1868 until 2007. The records of the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., prior to its 1977 merger with Lehman Brothers, are also part of the collection. The View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

find an area where narrow AI is not having an impact,” says Seseri, which raises questions for business leaders in all sectors. How can e-commerce businesses benefit from artificial intelligence in the near... View Details

Keywords: April White

Sidney Kimmel

Kimmel ran the apparel division of W. R. Grace & Company when it diversified into the fashion world in the early seventies. As Grace sought to streamline its operations, Kimmel bought the fashion business and incorporated it as Jones... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

to learn what makes various businesses succeed or fail. Knowledge gained by the faculty in the field is core to the learning experience, as it generates new research, including course materials. It also... View Details

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