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28 Aug 2013
News

Five Remarkable Leaders Receive 2013 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Awards

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

Alison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit at HBS. Her research, course development, and teaching focus is on the... View Details

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

governments, and define the parameters of each individual project. Eventually the local partners would be expected to take over a controlling interest in the venture. Once an affiliate corporation had been linked to local partners and the... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

01 Apr 1999
News

Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual... View Details

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society Professor Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration 10:00 a.m. Case Study... View Details

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Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business and Geopolitics Course Number 1155 Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Educational Objectives The goal of the course is to examine the... View Details

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

& Associations Stay connected with other alumni interested in social enterprise while you build lifelong relationships with MBA students, fellow alumni, and Executive Education participants. Did you know? 25... View Details

22 Oct 2014
HBS Seminar

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

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Business Program Discount | HBS Online

If you're interested in more than one program or want to complete a Learning Track, take advantage of HBS Online's past participant discount. After your first purchased program, you'll receive 30% off all subsequent programs at checkout.... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

C-suite roles than their classmates, says Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who is one of the study’s co-authors. “It certainly makes sense that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

concerned. Hopefully, the longer-term economic response will also be executed in ways that will avoid unleashing yet another round of deflationary forces. Unfortunately, there is little margin for error this time. Tom Nicholas, Associate... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Why did you want to take CS50? Samuel: I wanted to learn the language of computer science, so I actually knew what software engineers were talking about. Sloan: I took CS50 because I've always had an View Details

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

Norton, an associate professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. "But we didn't know if the ritual caused the healing." “We see in every culture—and throughout history—that people... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Leadership Fellows Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Loan Assistance Community A wide variety of clubs and activities serve as major vehicles for supporting students interested in social enterprise. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum... View Details

January 2025
Article

Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans

This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Through interviews with 30 SMB owners across various industries, we identify the key barriers to ESOP adoption as lack of... View Details

Keywords: Profit Sharing; Employee Ownership; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Small Business; Adoption; Employees

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