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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s trek came at an especially exciting time, with breakthroughs in generative AI, quantum computing, cloud computing,... View Details

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

When business executives create innovative products or services, they often look to impress their customers by delivering an experience more meaningful, more delightful, than possibly expected. A true "wow!" moment. And Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

02 Apr 2024
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IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

India stands at 19 million tonnes per annum. Looking ahead, their medium-term target sets their sights even higher, aiming to reach 60 million tonnes capacity within the next four years. Initially, this slag-blended cement, with its lighter color, faced consumer... View Details

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 21 Nov 2024 How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters Jess Hopper Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies If you’re a Harvard Business School alumnus, you’ve... View Details

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Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS | MBA

frequently asked questions about financing an MBA. 1. What is HBS doing to make an MBA more affordable and accessible? Harvard Business School is committed to providing you with options and support to help finance your MBA. Even as the... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

just focus on that. Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg, OPM Class 33. Retirement—nowhere near it. And if you really love what you do and you have a passion with a capital p, there's no need to retire. My mom, our founder, our chairman, our CEO, never had a college education,... View Details

16 Sep 2024
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Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

Looking around a Harvard Business School classroom, you will find students who bring a diverse range of experiences, skills, and perspectives to the conversation. That can include diverse abilities; those that are physical and mental,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 May 2023
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Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

Four years ago, I got involved with coaching and career education programs. This led me to working with students interested in industries such as consumer products, retail, sustainability, agribusiness, and hospitality. Living sustainably... View Details

27 Feb 2024
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IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

working throughout the food value chain – creating better information flow from demand to supply points and educating farmers on regenerative farming practices. Pixxel on the other hand, approaches the issue from a more macro level,... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

by networks of other people who can supply the thousand things it takes to fuel a business. Here is how William Sahlman, business educator and scholar, began a paper, "Some Thoughts on View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

assistant professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. “If a CEO can trust his senior managers, he will be more willing to decentralize decision-making” "The bottom line is that whoever is in charge of the acquisitions and the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career imprint? Organizational career... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Terms of Use | HBS Online

Program through another university or educational institution with which you are associated (your “Home Institution”), Harvard Business School Online may provide a record to your Home Institution concerning... View Details

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.” That’s the pitch Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999) and her... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

index of financial sophistication increases strongly with financial wealth and household size, and to a lesser extent with education and proxies for financial experience. The index is strongly positively correlated with the share of risky... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Commencement 2018 Address | About

satisfaction of being together when the newspapers announced that all of India’s villages were finally electrified. My father showed me the difference that enterprising leaders can make and helped me find my calling in educating View Details

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

09 Mar 2023
News

Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

spring and summer based on the HBS mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. These could be panel discussions, or fireside chats with leaders in the San Antonio business community. Then... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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