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- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
curiosity was peaked. “I didn’t really know anything about finance, but I wanted to learn,” he shared. “I went to an event where people were speaking a lot of jargon and I had no idea what was going on, but it put a bit View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
there's a correlation, and yet one thing does not cause the other." Establishing scientific proof required a situation in which the team could exogenously change the ethnic population of metropolitan areas... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a bond issuer and you... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
What really helped us is that we had a clearly delineated budget upfront of what we had to spend in order to get the concept tested. That really helped us to be incredibly judicious with how we spent the money. We had to do a lot View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
ordinarily selfish behavior and make them temporarily more generous. Into The Field It's one thing to test this theoretically, it's another to put it into practice in the real world. For their last experiment, Santana and Morwitz went... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
program? Me and Abdul-Rahman (MBA 2022) At the risk of sounding trite, I believe first and foremost that giving yourself enough time is the most important thing to do. Doing so enables deeper introspection,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
role or an organization. You may discover that both startups and larger, more mature companies align with your criteria, and they might be in different industries, have different products or services, or be at different stages of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
to joining HBS, Schoonbeek worked at McKinsey for two years analyzing a range of business problems in different industries. “HBS was a very logical extension to that experience because after a few years at McKinsey you have an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
The coronavirus crisis is hobbling social enterprises around the world, leaving many fighting for survival at a time of profound need. Since the pandemic hit, donations have fallen for more than two-thirds View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Coleman, MBA 1993. In the second-year mandatory class on management. I can’t remember the topic. We had a class with Joe Bower, and one of the things that Joe did to get to know the second-year students in... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
research shows strong empirical evidence that diverse boards can lead to increased corporate performance. A diversity of thought, perspective, and experience makes better boards, and it’s the right thing to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
for founders who pivot? I think pivoting is one of the most important things you can do as a founder. It forces you to contend with your ego, because the reality is every company has to pivot in big or small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
member. Only HBS could be flexible enough for such a thing to happen! Maybe it was possible because we thought of ourselves more as pragmatic experimenters than as academics. Our strength at HBS is that we... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
we look to the future, one thing is clear: We will need to draw continuing support from the communities in which we live and work. This means we must be particularly sensitive, caring, and understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. “You would think... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Katy Milkman explains why. In a career devoted to uncovering what helps people to change, she has discovered a crucial thing many of us get wrong: strategy. Change, Milkman’s learned, comes most readily when... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley