Exploration And Exploitation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

group in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management area. My husband and I plan to eat our way through the incredible Toronto food scene, in addition to taking our Siberian husky to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1999
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More Than a Business

attempted a career in professional sports, playing for a year with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But the lure of business ultimately proved stronger, pulling Graves to HBS, where he View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader

Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside Washington, DC, as the hearing daughter... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

$10,000 each.” Both Mahajan and Gupta have benefited from the School's comprehensive financial assistance program: from need-based scholarships to attend HBS, to summer fellowships between their MBA years to View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

that. I think people had issues with her transparency or whatever. But there were a significant number of people who had a huge distaste for Donald Trump, but who really believed that Hillary Clinton was the last person in the world you'd want to put in the White... View Details

05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

boards very low,” says Groysberg, adding that low turnover on boards further reduces opportunities for women even if they’ve overcome the obstacle of closed networks. “By bringing exceptional women together to explore challenges View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Sep 2005
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New Career Wanted

When contemplating a move that will set your career on a new course, be sure to sharpen your navigational skills. “The research and preparation that go into making a move are crucial to success,” counsels Christine Sullivan, director of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

make an impact on climate change. So now he's exploring how to apply that same machine learning approach he used to design golf clubs to design sorbents—these molecules that can bind to carbon dioxide and... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East

led him to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab post-civil-war walls of his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2009. His success with guerilla art eventually led to commissions View Details

Keywords: Inclusion

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

valedictorian. "Being a student body leader during such a controversial time proved to be most rewarding," says the polished and gracious Safin, who speaks English with the barest trace of an accent. "I was able to take the initiative to... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

solve problems,” she notes. Before enrolling in the MBA Program, Chen worked at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in Shanghai and Singapore. While there, she began to question her own societal impact, prompting her application to HBS. In... View Details

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

explored the military; that left the remaining two pillars of power and influence—business and politics. I applied to, and was accepted by, HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

24 Apr 2020
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Spreading the Love

Lovepop team has been exploring production of several types of PPE. They began with N95 respirators, but discovered that while they had the know-how, machinery, and employees to make them, they couldn’t get... View Details

16 Aug 2022
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HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

included the opening of the Japanese Research Center in 2002 and the annual Independent Field Course that launched in 2011. Amano, a marketing professor, gave a lecture entitled “Gaming or Gambling? An Empirical Investigation of the Role... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

between the School and its graduates.” In recent years, Foley has presented his research to a number of alumni groups; engaged with alumni and companies for his CFO courses; View Details

21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups

Kete moved to Charlotte from Cleveland three years ago to take the post of president at Nascent Technology. Another benefit of the lunches, he says, is the opportunity for alumni to see and explore parts of... View Details