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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

Ben Buchheim-Jurisson , Clif Luber & Daniel Ackeret 11 Oct 2024 Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012) Allison Boxer Student Clubs Partner with one of the 50 career-related clubs on campus to engage with targeted groups... View Details

01 Nov 2022
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Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

teammates engage with each other to connect, network, create? Personal experiences varied. Jacob Navon said that, “ one cannot substitute f2f when it comes to building culture and mentoring new hires... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Roland Christensen’s commitment to ideas and his personal interest in me were the reasons I considered an academic career and developed a passion for research,” said Porter.... View Details

16 Mar 2020
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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

will help customers be more helpful The rapid spread of COVID-19 reminds us how our wellbeing is interconnected, and the flurry of heartwarming responses people have exhibited in the face of this crisis... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

call. Can you tell me what happened next? Phillip Jones: I had gone for a run in the middle of the day. I came back and both of my phones—my personal phone and my city... View Details

20 Oct 2011
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Getting the Marketing Mix Right

"Companies really need to pay attention to the effectiveness of their marketing instruments," Steenburgh says. "They need to look at whether they're creating new customers or whether they're just drawing View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Won the 2011 Stan Hardy Award for Outstanding Paper published in the field of Operations Management from the Decision Sciences Institute for his paper with Ryan W. Buell and Frances X. Frei, “Are Self-Service View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (6) Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Strengthen your capacity to create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs... View Details

13 May 2013
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How to Spot a Liar

would happen naturally," Van Swol says. Ultimately, the receiver had to decide whether the proposed allocation was fair and honest, based only on a conversation with the allocator. Thus, it behooved the allocator to be either a fair... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2017
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Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

extent possible, the ‘full PM experience,’ and that meant finding a fast-moving startup that would let me run with a meaty product feature from just a scribbled idea on a whiteboard, to requirement-gathering phase with View Details

16 May 2000
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The Simple Economics of Open Source

universities, where it was freely available; they are able to build on knowledge they already possess. And, two, programmers welcome the opportunity, made possible by open source, to customize and de-bug... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

vast bulk dating from 1400 to 1600. The collection sheds light on the business and personal activities of six generations of one branch of Florence’s renowned Medici family, whose wealth was derived... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

liver failure HeroesNow Jennifer Wilhelmi Rivka Spivak Valerie Valtz Allison Tepley Jamyn Edis Business Track Runner-Up HeroesNow is your personal concierge online, linking customers who have a specific need... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Research at Harvard Business School in 1926. His papers contain personal correspondence, articles and speeches, notebooks from his student days at the University of Adelaide, teaching notes View Details

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

importantly, this venture is not the only answer and in the interest of solving the problem I should partner. On the personal side, I could not have had a better chance to explore entrepreneurship. I enjoyed... View Details

March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
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Accion's Fintech Strategy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg

Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Financial Inclusion; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Non-Governmental Organizations; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Industry Growth

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01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details