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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
tuition. “They said, ‘We’re not going to buy you a car but we are going to pay for your education.’ It wasn’t until I was older that I really understood the importance of that,” he says. An awareness of how... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
Harvard, including in his teaching the course Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors at the Kennedy School. In addition, Higgins and his wife, Kristine, support fellowships for students in the joint MD/MBA... View Details
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Behrad Mahdi
"the turnaround was done, and it was time for me to leave. That's when I began to think about going to business school. I had learned so much — unpacking my experiences would be very rewarding. I had strengths in political and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
percent were virtual visits. And Teladoc, the largest private sector telemedicine company, reported more than 300,000 virtual visits in the second quarter of 2017, a 55 percent increase over the same quarter in 2016. Patients are becoming... View Details
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Clarissa Quintanilla
as well. “No single sector can resolve poverty at the base of the pyramid,” Clarissa says. “There has to be a joint solution. And if you’re going to be a bridge between the public and the private sectors,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
in three ways. First, the early adopters who valued the club-like atmosphere of relaxing over a quality cup of coffee found themselves in a minority. To grow, Starbucks increasingly appealed to grab and go customers for whom service meant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Growing Latino Buying Power
David Perez (MBA 1996), cofounder and managing partner of the private equity firm Avance Investment Management, recently spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box as part of the show’s focus on Latino businesses for Hispanic Heritage Month. Perez notes... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A model of service
private schools, enabling students to volunteer on a regular basis. "Students come away from the experience realizing that we are all alike, but sometimes bad things happen to people and they are forced to live off of food stamps or View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the only pan-African firm of its... View Details
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Mallika Ahluwalia
At Princeton, Mallika Ahluwalia realized she wanted a career in international development. "Having an impact on communities and the world motivates me to go to work every day," she says. After a one-year stint at Catalyst... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
slowdown of wireless technology, and the increasingly bright outlook for venture capital and private equity. Global private equity funding has been on the order of $300 billion since the beginning of 2000,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
four years after the current president leaves office will be among the most consequential we’re going to live through. The decisions we make, or don’t make, will be of enormous importance to American history for the course of the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
a personal point of view, it was remarkable to see tens of millions of people from all walks of life, rich and poor, gather together in what was literally a pop-up city and go about their daily and religious lives, inhabiting tents of one... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
School who sat on one outside public board during his tenure at Arrow and has since served on four other public boards and five private boards. "There has been a tremendous shift to the better over the past 15 years," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
going to be exercising leadership in a world in which information is much easier to access than it was before," he said. "This changes the implicit rules in terms of what I call public ethics, because public judgments will happen whether... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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Catherine Neale
help me get skills useful in the public sector." Looking ahead This summer, Catherine will work with the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco. Once she fulfills her MBA, "I want to go into the View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto
program, after hearing about it from an alumna, for two main reasons. First and foremost, I wanted to have flexibility with regards to the type of work I would do before going to business school, without having to think if it fits under... View Details