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- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
learn in the classroom, with clubs, and across HBS, Professor Sara Fleiss and CPD have developed a Winternship (winter internship) program designed specifically to prepare first-year career-switchers for investing roles as quickly as... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
negotiated business challenges. In three cases, the challenges involved getting everyone on the same page after acquisitions or mergers. They describe the methods they used to counter growing bureaucracies, encourage customer-centricity,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been in short supply since the revolution in 2011. Once Medtronic... View Details
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
actively apply tools. This course is for founders, joiners, investors, and consultants aspiring to create value by designing (or helping design) the management systems necessary to bring new ventures from early-stage startups to... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
that hacking it is still difficult.” Nevertheless, Kinney felt that “Now that it has been hacked, perhaps Apple should redouble its efforts to improve the security... I therefore would not encourage Apple to open up its architecture.”... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
bathrooms for men, women, children, and transgender individuals. It also features a laundromat and a drinking water station. Powered largely by solar energy, the facility includes a water treatment plant and is designed to be safe and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
what it calls "boundaryless" behaviors among its executives, encouraging them to exchange ideas with each other and, when beneficial to the company, with managers outside GE as well. In short, it is becoming more and more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress | MBA
academic difficulty at HBS. Students who feel that they might benefit from assistance or guidance, whether academic or personal, are encouraged to consult with MBA Student & Academic Services. Seeking assistance at HBS is regarded as a... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
Massachusetts, and TerraPower of Bellevue, Washington. Each is working on new nuclear reactor designs to harvest and run on radioactive waste fuels, such as thorium (a waste product of rare earth mining), and depleted uranium (the waste... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
which people can be encouraged toward healthier behaviors through the framing of choices. One approach that has proven effective in weight loss and smoking cessation has been leveraging “loss aversion,” even if that’s just the loss of a... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
difficult and daunting task, especially given recent market conditions. This course is a practical, hands-on field course primarily designed for students who are very serious about pursuing entrepreneurship within the life sciences,... View Details
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
at the Harvard Innovation Lab (Harvard i-lab). When asked if the environment of mutual encouragement and advice is helpful, Arjun does not hesitate. “One hundred percent,” he says. “For guidance, help with pitches, sharing ideas — it’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is named Avi Therapeutics, a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
encourage participation? Because the quarterly check-ins were not mandatory, the company found a wide disparity in how often managers and employees followed through on them. Even though snapshots were View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
of HBS’s robust fellowship program; over time, the School has also developed summer exploration fellowships for those who want to try out new careers between their first and second years, as well as loan assistance programs that encourage... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
confluence. "For managers, working in the social sector can be more exciting than managing a business - your influence as a force for entrepreneurial change can make an impact beyond your organization," notes Associate Professor J. Gregory Dees, who View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
2000) in the first days of 2020 to show how Moderna’s considerable investments in AI and other digital tools allowed them to design and deliver a COVID-19 vaccine in just 41 days. Reimagining Capitalism Over the last 15 years, Rebecca... View Details