College Students - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

An investment banker for the past 25 years, Steve Waters says that what he likes best about his profession is "the opportunity to build businesses." A graduate of Harvard College as well as HBS, Waters spent the first part of his career... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Arthur C. Brooks : Elected as a Member of the American Academy of Sciences & Letters in 2024. Leemore S. Dafny : Elected to the National Academy of... View Details

23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

admitting that balancing her career and family takes work. Although Harris is brimming with confidence, she is not one to brag. Her life’s remarkable trajectory—including being the subject of an HBS case study and authoring two best-selling books—sometimes surprises... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

students to connect via an untraceable off-campus phone number. Those founding members launched what would become a decades-long tradition—a community within the community. The group’s name, originally borrowed from a similar group at... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award from the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Best Student Paper Award at the 19th Annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship... View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

resulting working paper, Conversational Receptiveness: Improving Engagement with Opposing Views, was written in collaboration with Michael Yeomans, assistant professor at Imperial College Business School in London; Julia Minson, associate... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is uncorrelated to observable characteristics of the graduates. Given this assignment protocol, I find that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

13 Jul 2021
Blog Post

A View from the Horizon

summer of 1985, I was given the opportunity to participate in the HBS Summer Venture in Management Program, or SVMP – a one-week crash course for Black and other underrepresented college students to... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

corn at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, where he has been on the faculty for 15 years. He will tell you that corn’s symbiotic relationship with humans stretches back 10,000 years, originating in Mesoamerica and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

educating first generation college students and moving away from prioritizing candidates coming from more privileged backgrounds.” Measurement was on the minds of several respondents. Steve Hopkins said that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

Children’s Hospital Boston on two research studies. I loved the fast-paced environment of the ED and interacting with patients. Then I went to Wesleyan University and studied history, literature, and philosophy in a program called the View Details

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

Peggy lived with her grandparents, both of whom were teachers. "When you see all your grandparents’ sacrifices for your education," she says, "you always have to bring your ‘A game.’ Education meant a lot." Peggy’s academic excellence brought her to... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

making business decisions Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive within me to learn and absorb as much as I could. Leslie Pico A small business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming &... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

K-12 schools in the US had access to the ... Featured MBA Course Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship This course (formerly Entrepreneurship in Education Reform) explores the central role that education plays in our economy and society and is designed... View Details

02 Feb 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for... View Details

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 and View Details