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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures Background Harvard Business School (HBS) has a long tradition of entrepreneurial activity. In recent years, the emphasis on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School specifically and at Harvard View Details

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. He partnered on the research with HBS doctoral student Kala Viswanathan and Duke University professor Matthew Johnson. Widespread adoption, but does the standard work? Some 2.8... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Industry Information - Alumni

business management including strategy, marketing, operations, human capital, and governance, and the impact of their decisions. + – Government Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank Search Think Tank Search searches the websites of... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction

School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

development, administrative and organizational challenges, and strategic governance issues facing the School, the BDA plays an important role in offering both counsel and support. According to BDA chairman Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68),... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

compared with $260 million, or 27 percent, in fiscal 2022. For the University as a whole, philanthropic revenue accounted for 45% of total operating revenues in fiscal 2023. The School’s annual endowment distribution for fiscal 2023... View Details

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical research university, in which we... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jun 2021
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Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

of the challenges and opportunities facing his company. “The last year has been filled with national and international crises in which the role of government and how that intersects with the business community has heightened and grown... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Debora L. Spar | About

the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bentley University. She has also served on the boards of Goldman Sachs and the Wallace and Markle Foundations. Spar earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

Dlodlo’s university education, a loss that can still bring Dlodlo to tears. After earning a degree in finance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Dlodlo remained in South Africa, working... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

decentralized nature of building and financing homes posed obstacles to private organizations who tried to do the same. Anecdotal accounts, like this feature in the Ladies Home Journal in 1903, suggest that most home-buyers cobbled together financing from a variety of... View Details

October 2020
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Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner

In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state

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01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

competitive. Ultimately, we hope the institutes will position HBS and the University overall as global leaders in reshaping the landscape of the digital-first world and the role of business in society. What changes is HBS making to the... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

Thomas (MBA 2003) Grace Under Fire I was a server for the catering service on my college campus. Working at the banquets hosted by the university president was my favorite because sometimes it meant seeing famous people. One time Stephen... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Jul 2022
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When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

to government estimates. And, in 2020, 3,142 people were killed in car crashes involving distracted drivers. With automation gaining more momentum, Sadun hopes car designers will double down on safety features. After all, commuters may... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

me in the pants every now and again about things he thinks are important,” Keen says. Walker, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Colorado, has written extensively about Native Americans and is one of the “good... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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HBS - The year in Review

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Thomas Graeber Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Jillian Jordan Negotiation, Organizations & Markets James Riley Organizational Behavior Maria Roche Strategy Marlous van Waijenburg Business, View Details

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