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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Introduction to Business Analytics ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Business Analytics $1,850 Next 8-week session starts August 6th Enroll Now Unlock... View Details

19 Jul 2017
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Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

cost of college. But Beshears and his colleagues found the most cost-effective way to increase college enrollment was just to make applying for financial aid easier. A 2012 study worked with tax preparer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Sep 2015
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Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

powerful positions at work, and who had taken the initiative to enroll in advanced leadership courses. Even among these women who were actively climbing the corporate ladder, there was a relatively larger negative association with power... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Feb 2023
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Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

narrative: You’ve got to go to college to make it in America. You are a non-person if you don’t,” says Fuller. “That’s telling 60 percent of kids they are failures.” At the same time, college View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

forecasts as an input into the government budgeting-making process would probably reduce official forecast errors for budget deficits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51324 College Tuition, Public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2024
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How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

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 two to four years in a field of... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Now Starring: Single Dad

WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Organizational Leadership ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Organizational Leadership... View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

students, including the first black woman to graduate from HBS, joined forces to form the predecessor of the African American Student Union (originally called the Afro-American Student Union). More on the history of AASU AASU Founders These five founders sought to... View Details

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Meagan Hill

Meagan Hill enrolled in Harvard College with the intention of going on to medical school. But through her work at Harvard Student Agencies — a conglomerate of nine businesses that offer students hands-on... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

education. In turn, as a college graduate who became a federal government employee and a consultant in Washington, Checchi's father set an example that helped pave the way for young Al to win a private school scholarship, which led to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

future,' it's clear to me that's the way things will turn out." But Chiofaro's career path hasn't always seemed so certain. After graduating in 1968 from Harvard College (where, as a bone-crunching linebacker, he captained the football... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

nuts-and-bolts process of transitioning to a career in renewable energy. Tell me about your experience before coming to the MBA Program. I enrolled in the ROTC program as an undergrad at Boston University; initially, I was attracted to... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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A History of Women at HBS

for women was viewed as nothing short of radical. “A ‘Daring Experiment’: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937–1970,” tells the story of how coeducation at HBS evolved from an eleven-month certificate program in “personnel administration” at Radcliffe View Details

Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

strategies that deliver a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Enroll Today Whether you’re a college engineering major hoping to land a job in Silicon Valley, a recent law school grad preparing for your... View Details

10 Nov 2021
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Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

with the ROTC camaraderie and structure, and served throughout her undergraduate years. Read Julie's profile. Joshua Scott (MBA 2023) Photo courtesy Joshua Scott Joshua Scott first set foot on the HBS campus as a freshman at Harvard View Details

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