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For Alumni - Health Care

For Alumni Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School With more than 8,000 graduates working in all health care industries around the globe, our alumni play important roles from supporting... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

of organizational and managerial processes from within, can be just as effective at torpedoing productivity both then and now, Thomke says. As workers toss time-consuming and frustrating curveballs in the air by making bad decisions and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Charles each week. The students learned a great deal more from the two of us than if either one of us had taught the course alone. The students were engaged. The topics were interesting and important. We pulled together some just-in-time... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

29 Jan 2024
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Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

using the knowledge I gained from the course. Hi n Nguy n Th Business Intelligence Analyst at New Zealand's Ministry of Justice The excel I learned from Business Analytics has become useful as I started... View Details

18 Feb 2022
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Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

Short Intensive Program (SIP) Recap: Climate Adaptation From January 18th through January 21st, approximately 40 students gathered in Aldrich Hall for a SIP on Climate Adaptation. This course was led by HBS Professor John Macomber with... View Details

12 Mar 2006
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New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

consultant with National Economics Research Associates on high-profile antitrust cases: Microsoft and Visa, mainly. Economics consulting is very different from management consulting. It involves coming up with economic arguments grounded... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories

trust, thinking strategically, analyzing trade-offs, working in a global organization, an understanding the role of the CEO." Daniela Terminel CEO Global Health Corps If you want to go deeper into the HBS participant experience, visit our... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Action Plan: Wild at Heart

At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability

12 May 2023
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Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

versus only 18%, 15% and 8% in the West, Midwest, and Northeast respectively [5]. Thus, homes in the South are more primed for heat pump installation and will likely benefit from lower upfront expenditures.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Action Plan: Life Study

inspired by the war in Ukraine. Proceeds from the sale of those works totaled just under $150,000 and benefited Ukrainian aid organizations. A similar sense of kismet runs through the other branches of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers'... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2019
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Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the work mindset,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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offend or make people angry, that they don’t understand the history behind the current events, and that if they try to offer support or speak up, they will get it wrong and be seen as insensitive or even complicit. Moreover, the pro-Palestinian demonstration that... View Details

07 Jul 2023
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man offers food to the people in his community in need of a meal. He’s a community leader in the Robin Hood Army, a no-funds volunteer organization with a massive goal to end world hunger, community... View Details

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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

“granted on the basis of scholarly work rather than on the length of residence at the University,” allowing students who had pursued graduate degrees at other institutions to receive advanced standing. 1953 Commercial Science Degree... View Details

23 Jul 2021
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Trends in Consumer Products

for my businesses! At first, we saw panicked buying and consumers scrambling to buy flour and baked goods. Store shelves were emptied of flour as consumers were home and baking provided a comforting activity for their families. One day... View Details

11 Dec 2023
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

that personally inspired me.” To make this career transition, Leahy made the move from New York back to her home state of Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business School. “HBS opened up my global... View Details

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