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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to... View Details

26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

29 Jan 2025
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Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

entertained. I’ve always been someone who wants to brighten peoples’ day, and I sought to integrate that into my career. I took on roles that combined creative development and strategic leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President... View Details

08 May 2019
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In the Business of Flexibility

said Davis. “I developed this passion for high-level talent over the course of my own career. I saw an intersection with Prokanga, considering my operating background leading business development for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

Business. Written by Timothy Butler and James Waldroop, director and associate director, respectively, of the School's MBA Career Development Programs, the book presents a business-focused, step-by-step approach to evaluating one's career... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

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John Oxtoby

and innovative ideas. I want to learn how the private sector can take ideas and turn them into reality.” For a variety of reasons, HBS became John’s business school of choice. “A number of my Jobs Council colleagues who had attended HBS shared stories about how the... View Details

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Navigating a Career in Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

returned as an HBS Leadership Fellow. For the first few months, I focused on a number of cross-departmental projects for the COO. I then moved into a managerial position on our development team, overseeing seven people working on... View Details

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

front-line workers who voice concerns and share ideas about how to solve problems. Our study is among the first to develop and empirically test theory about how specific management practices can encourage employees to speak up about... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

neither find any markers of significant NPE pass-through to end innovators nor of a positive impact of NPEs on innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2025
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On The Case: The Base Factor

In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog

enterprise. We will employ these models throughout the course to understand the root causes of the challenges that the general managers in our cases are facing, and to develop action plans for resolving them. During case discussions, we... View Details

22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug

buries his hands in his pockets. The screen lights up, of course. It always does. This isn't magic, after all: it's science developed by WiTricity's founder, MIT physics professor Marin Soljačić, and his team, who wirelessly lit a 60-watt... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Telecommunications; Information; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

exits, as well as equity selection and portfolio construction. The course also explores incentives, decision-making, and the crucial problems and opportunities within the industry itself. This course is geared toward students interested... View Details

24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World

Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing courses such as View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets

growth of business history in India. Geoffrey Jones (Business History Initiative) discussed the Creating Emerging Markets project and how the oral histories being generated were being used in both teaching and research. Chinmay Tumbe (IIM-Ahmedabad) reviewed how oral... View Details

10 Jul 2018
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Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

Sarah refine her search. “I looked at industries hyper-dependent on people, and concentrated on technology and financial services.” Like her HBS colleagues, Sarah launched a campaign to “reach out and connect to people,” perusing the... View Details

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Nelson Yuan

While studying industrial engineering at Columbia University, Nelson Yuan “felt the gravitational pull of Wall Street.” For him, engineering wasn’t an end in itself, “but a framework for looking at problems. I like to apply an engineering... View Details

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Arthur Rock | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Arthur Rock, HBS 1951, was one of America’s first venture capitalists. He played a key role in launching Fairchild Semiconductor, Teledyne, Intel, Apple, and many other high-tech companies. He was a visionary who saw very early on the future of the computer View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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