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Policy - Business & Environment

on their pollution) [16] While the U.S. federal government has not yet caught up with shifts in public opinion, many other countries and some U.S. states and cities are advancing policies to achieve net zero emissions of GHG emissions by... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of private-equity deals is slowly increasing, but they are still at quite a low level by the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

16 Feb 2004
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HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The Europe Research Center (ERC) is the newest of Harvard Business School's Global Initiative research centers, having opened its doors in July 2002. With the political and economic currents now affecting relations between the United... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge

Richard S. Ruback. Roughly 6.5 million people in the United States have intellectual disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome, but less than 23 percent of working-age disabled women and men were... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA

it was shorter or longer), am I still eligible to apply to HBS through the 2+2 process? Will HBS sponsor a work permit or visa in the United States during the two years of pre-MBA work experience? If... View Details

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Eryn Schultz

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I decided to apply to business school because I wanted to pivot away from strategy consulting and move into an operations focused role at a mission-oriented organization. While I had several hypothesis about what I... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

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Lily Wu

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? HBS is such a unique place where intelligent and hard-working people meet and congregate to build amazing things and create magic. It was important to me personally that I reimagine different possibilities early in my... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Ahmed Eldemerdash

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I think it is a great opportunity for both learning and personal development and also to boost my career aspirations. The people here at HBS, the case method and the different ways to learn and practice what we learn,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Zayed Muhammed Yasin

Zayed Yasin spent his summer internship in a location most people would envy: Mayaguana, a small island in the Bahamas. Unfortunately, he was too absorbed in constructing an emergency services site—a project that combined his undergraduate degree in engineering with... View Details

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Zachary Surak

My palms were sweaty. My heart raced. A million questions flew through my mind. Did I do well enough to get in? Would they even want someone like me? I was about to meet my high school guidance counselor to begin crafting a path to my higher education nirvana. It just... View Details

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Zhongjue (Drew) Chen

I remember feeling completely out of place standing in front of a roomful of curious British classmates. My heart pounded and my flushed face beat red as I tried to introduce myself in broken English. It was some ten years ago. I had just left the familiar scene of... View Details

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Zubby Achara

It’s April 6th, 2017. I’m in my dimly lit apartment. Before me is a knife and a disinfectant. I can’t decide which of the two is the more efficient tool to ease me into the afterlife. Until then, I’d been the dream child, with stellar grades and a prestigious career. A... View Details

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Xue (Ken) Yuan

In China, Xue Yuan earned an undergrad degree in environmental engineering and graduate degrees in advanced polymer chemistry. “But spending eight hours a day, seven days a week in a research lab was not what I wanted to do with my life,” says Xue. Changing gears, he... View Details

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Xiao Wang

I will make dreams come true. No, I cannot make you fly or find true love. But I can help with the goals that we set for ourselves every New Year's Day - that this is the year I will become fitter, feel more energized, and live a healthier life. One of the most... View Details

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Whitney Wilson

Whitney Wilson began her career in international development, assuming a role with the American Chamber of Commerce in Jordan during the midst of the Arab Spring. “I was introduced to CEOs involved in international trade,” Whitney says. “Through them, I was exposed to... View Details

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Wei Su

I don't have a firm belief in next life, although would not mind having one. Just in case this life is the only chance... My goal in life is a simple two-fold: make my country strong and my family happy. I never believe in living for myself. When I was young, my family... View Details

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Wilson Kyi

Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and alloy wheels. I experienced... View Details

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Victoria Song

I will master my own destiny. As a young child, I took note of the sharp contrast between the standards that existed for boys and girls in my stoic, conservative family. My brother was encouraged to speak his mind, to defend himself, to take on the world. No one ever... View Details

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Veronica Pinchin

I learned about hard work from my father, who learned about it from his. For 70 years, Vic Pinchin worked the land on his farm in Streetsville, Ontario. Over the years, seasons of lifting bushels of apples onto his rusty trailer bent his body almost in two. During my... View Details

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