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Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Tools of the Trade As executive director of Boston Collegiate Charter School (BCCS), Shannah Varón (MBA 2009) uses her MBA skillset “all day, every day,” whether View Details

06 Nov 2017
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Meet the HBS Women’s Association

The mission of the WSA is to connect, empower, and celebrate the next generation of women leaders and we do so by... View Details

20 Mar 2017
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Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

pathway to entrepreneurship. These innovations feed into companies being formed as well. What’s happened in the last 15 years is that users can collaborate and form communities... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

Asia Pacific Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World Pictured: Masato Nakamura and Yasu Sasago (both MBA 2020), at far right, with team members at the 2019 pop-up ramen event in... View Details

08 May 2018
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Meet the Entrepreneurship Club

Club enables those with budding interests to already established endeavors to engage meaningfully with a community within and outside HBS. Beginning in the fall of 2018, View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

30 Jul 2018
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HBS Alumnus and Great Benefactor C. D. Spangler, Jr., Dies at 86

03 Apr 2017
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The International Experience at HBS

diverse community here. I think there is no harder task on campus than finding out who is an international and who is a “local”. The statistics about the proportion View Details

27 Aug 2019
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Meet the PRIDE Club

community's use of the traditional acronym "LGBT." In ensuing discussions, they sought a name that would be most welcoming as a club and community at Harvard Business... View Details

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McDonald's and the Environment

McDonald's decides to withdraw its polystyrene plastic packaging for sandwiches and hamburgers after years of defending itself against environmental critics. The decision occurs in the midst of a six-month Joint Task Force study, with the nonprofit Environmental... View Details

Keywords: Announcements; Change Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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The American Chief Executive from 1850 to 2000

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Richard S. Tedlow's research explores changes in the leadership strategies, styles, and backgrounds of corporate chief executive officers in the United States over the past century and a half. This project has both a qualitative and a quantitative component. The... View Details

02 Dec 2002
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How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

management's actions with the long-term interests of an organization and its investors is, of course, to delay payment of options until long-term... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Bonnie Yochelson notes in Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence White School of Photography (Rizzoli, 1996). “White collaborated with art directors, publishers, and graphic designers who, like him, were... View Details

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Elizabeth Heard, November 6, 1841. EH. Jacques M. Downs, The Golden Ghetto: The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

hotels and apartment buildings split the city’s skyline. “You will see visible, visible change,” he says. “Fifteen years from now, this is where you take that one shot of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

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MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details

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Take Control of Your Personal Brand

branding because it allows each of us to be empowered to communicate the value we want to bring to the world. Here are a few key ideas that can... View Details

22 Sep 2021
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Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

legacy this upcoming year. LASO Priorities for 2021-2022 Our priorities this year are focused on community building, sustaining and celebrating LASO history and tradition, fostering a strong pipeline View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Sea of Dreams

Illustration by Shutterstock I've always loved boats. When I was just a few years old, my grandfather set me up in a small sailing dinghy and sent me on my way. I have no recollection of View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits When I compare our meager list of constituents of the past two years with what it used to be, I feel very blue &... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

in entrepreneurship, especially considering that more than half of HBS graduates have gone on to create at least one new venture within 10 to 20 years of their MBA graduation.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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