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HBS - From The Dean
exciting new initiatives that have the potential to reshape management practice and the very role of business in society. We began the academic year focused on welcoming our entire community back to campus. The vagaries of COVID-19... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on community improvement activities such... View Details
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Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success - Recruiting
dad in the most beautiful spot in the world," he says. Looking back now, he recognizes it was poverty—but at the time, "it was just life." Arriving at Harvard Business School in 2023, Bedford encountered some of the same challenges he faced at Harvard College years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
sectors that create value for society." Today, the SEI and the 97 faculty affiliated with the initiative connect with communities worldwide. Faculty research spans the examination of the needs of the 4.5 billion members of society living... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
and indeed very beautiful, it’s the story of ‘an almost perfect crime.’ Set in a monastery in the Quebec wilderness, Chief Inspector Gamache—one of my favorite detectives in crime fiction—is one of the few outsiders allowed in this View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
observes Dean Nitin Nohria, who deferred his plans to step down as dean until December in order to lead the School through this crisis “Every day, we must make key decisions amidst significant uncertainty and with incomplete information. While we don’t have a crystal... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Mehra (MBA 2009) Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009) Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) Brian Elliot (MBA 2008) Friendfactor — SEF 2010 honoree Friendfactor is a social-action nonprofit that aims to educate and engage the straight View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
established the George Leadership Fellowship to support students enrolled in joint programs offered through HBS and Harvard Kennedy School. Since establishing the fellowship, the Georges have supported numerous fellows who are selected based on their demonstrated... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
Seizing this opportunity, they founded “MBAs Fight COVID”, an initiative that matched HBS students with business owners seeking help. Soon, as the community of service-minded MBAs expanded and grew to include other MBA programs around the... View Details
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MBA > Academic-experience > Joint Degree Programs > Engineering Sciences | MBA
Engineering Sciences from SEAS. Curriculum: Designed for Impact Blending foundational MBA coursework with cohort-only classes, the program is completed in four semesters over two years, augmented by summer and January term coursework... View Details
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Hann Yew
the sciences." By her junior year, Hann had come to two realizations. "Science wasn't as glorious as I had imagined it to be," she says. "Your success is not always commensurate with the effort you put into it." On the other hand, her newfound... View Details
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Business Program Discount | HBS Online
This is a great foundation for practically applying high-integrity, humanistic organizational leadership and management, which is invaluable in today’s rapidly-changing, technology-focused world. Elena Bowes Certificate of Specialization... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
issues that profit brings to a social service organization. Founded thirty-five years ago, the small, multiservice nonprofit Haley House is a spiritually based community organization that serves "society's forgotten people"—the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Three conferences sponsored by student organizations at HBS in January brought together alumni, students, and experts from business, government, and academia to discuss a wide range of topical issues. Summaries of those conferences follow. AASU: Focus on View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
Image © politicalcartoons.com/R.J. Matson It was easy to dismiss the Occupy Wall Street protesters. By many accounts, they were disorganized, lacked a clear agenda, advanced arguments that were inconsistent and poorly reasoned, and had no solutions. In style, they were... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
philanthropy and a search for 'give us better practices,' " said Nancy Roob, president and CEO of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF). Joining her on the panel were Matt Bannick (HBS MBA 1993), managing partner of Omidyar... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS,... View Details