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06 Sep 2016
News

Connecting Past and Present

eastern European country. Funded exclusively by donations and with an army of volunteers, the online database can help find family ancestry dating back more than 200 years. It is also a critical resource in connecting people with... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact

The nonprofit need of for-profit acumen is acute, says Jeff Bradach (AM 1990, PhDOB 1992), cofounder and managing partner of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven organizations and philanthropists.... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A lifelong mission to save the oceans

central challenge of our time: how to meet the enormous resource demands of a rapidly growing global population without destroying the natural systems that sustain us,” he says. Merkl found his passion as a young boy playing along the... View Details

Profile

Shana Hoffman

of HBS as a school for consultants and corporate management, Shana says, she recognized HBS as the perfect place for her entrepreneurial designs. “I was impressed by HBS’ recent commitments to manufacturing and health care,” she says. “And with View Details

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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

Library and related resources for Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

word," he observes. Building on the previous year's experience, participants this fall had electronic access to course materials, including an overview of the general manager's job, a resource site with hundreds of contributions from last... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

spend resources to adopt some of the state-of-the-art technologies. Rich countries are sufficiently close for companies to be able to adopt these technologies by themselves. Poor countries are very far from the frontier, so it is... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling performance against projections.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Prita Kumar

who actually started a venture on their own, many of them are still working on their ideas. Have you figured out how best to use the HBS alumni network? I’m really aggressive so I tend to figure out what I want and then find the map of View Details

04 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

before starting RC year, and have been friends ever since. Annette and I have very different backgrounds, but since there are so few of us moms, we have gotten a chance to connect and learn from each other. What kinds of resources are... View Details

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

resources that companies have access to (human, financial, and social capital) as well as how they allocate those resources to create advantage. Ownership models can be seen as solutions to specific... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

for-profit. Not only must you confront most of the same issues faced by for-profits, but you must do so with more limited resources and in a more transparent environment. Two important barriers have kept some high-caliber executives from... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

research to administrative agencies that might not have the resources to gather such data on their own. There have been instances where companies have had a huge impact on the laws that govern them. In 1998, for instance, management and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

communities. Everyone was scrambling to direct resources to places where they could do the most good.” “We wanted to place behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving... View Details

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Companies: history

href="https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,business%20history,AND&tab=everything&search_scope=everything&vid=HVD2&mode=advanced&offset=0">business history, specific companies, and View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

We Invest in HBS Because...

vision, how to course correct, and the criticality of people in the equation. We want to make sure that a broad spectrum of current and future leaders has access to an HBS education, especially those who don't have the resources to... View Details

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

create as many resources as possible. You can imagine people who try to position and push their way in to show how much power they have in the negotiation, and that's self-defeating. The objective alternatives that they have will... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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Lindsay Ullman

out, Lindsay is pursuing another idea with the help of fellow students and funding through the independent-project process. "There hasn’t been a day I haven’t tapped some resource on campus," she says. "I just spent two... View Details

Keywords: Tech

Student-Profile

Ran Zhuo

during which they work directly with faculty on research projects while getting to know their colleagues and becoming familiar with the abundant resources at Harvard. Coming directly from her undergraduate career—and unsure what to expect... View Details

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