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30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

multinational corporations in six main world regions: Asia, Europe, India, Latin America, North America, and Oceania (N = 5,852). Consistent with our theorizing, we found cross-cultural evidence that reward satisfaction promoted greater... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

identified our pool of great business leaders, we organized the data by the decades in which business leaders initially came into the CEO position or founded their companies. We chose to evaluate candidates based on the beginning of their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

joined the private equity sector. Westphal took on a role with Providence Equity Partners, founded by HBS alum, Johnathan Nelson (MBA 1983). “The firm covers technology, media, telecom, and education, and I spent my time as a generalist... View Details

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Ryu Kawano

nothing like it in the market right now — we want to create a loan product that is larger and longer in repayment periods than the usual microfinance loans." Building on HBS connections To develop his ideas and find supporters, Ryu has View Details

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Jeff Bussgang

breakthrough businesses such as BzzAgent, DataXu, digitalArbor, Simple Tuition, Transpera and many others. Yet, Jeff has found time in his schedule for an additional commitment: serving as an HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence sponsored by... View Details

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Creighton Taylor

Accra news, weather, politics, and traffic. But one-on-one interviews dramatically changed their approach. “People don’t care about weather or traffic,” says Creighton. “The weather is always hot and humid; the traffic is always bad.” But Facebook proved exceptionally... View Details

24 Aug 2020
Blog Post

My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort

investing, and policy, but I didn’t want to move too far from the hard science either. I distinctly remember googling to see if there were any dual MS/MBA programs so that I could pursue science and business at the same time. To my disappointment, I View Details

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

welfare of US soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation (ARD), an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, Doriot fostered the development of startup companies that focused on emerging... View Details

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

organizations, including nearly three years in the New York City Mayor’s Office, Michael Alan Williams (MBA 2018) found his first post-MBA opportunity with The Kresge Foundation. “It was entirely serendipitous,” Michael says. “I intended... View Details

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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Responsibility: Strategies to Create Business and Social Value . Levy-Odom has found the experience to be a valuable one. “Being at HBS provided the framework to better coordinate all that we do at Time Inc. and how we present it... View Details

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

It pulled in more than 300 business leaders from different disease states, industries, and networks to analyze what was working well in the generation of cures—and what wasn’t. This new community that was formed found new ways to engage... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

program for young working adults, found access to the diverse expertise and resources across Harvard particularly beneficial. The team, which made it to the semifinals, included students from HBS, HKS, and SEAS. “Combining our experiences... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Oct 2019
News

Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

model that has found success elsewhere in the world to the MENA market. Circumventing obstacles presents opportunities for MENA entrepreneurs. Despite being one of the most connected regions in the world, with 88 percent of people online... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

In Pursuit of Academia

talking to classmates, I found that the experience of losing status impacted them strongly.” Her observations might have ended there had she not taken CareerLeader, a business career self-assessment survey, just prior to matriculation and... View Details

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

its affiliation with the i-lab that Perceptive Automata attracted its cofounder, Avery Faller, a machine learning engineer who was completing his master’s studies in computational science and engineering at Harvard. “He was the final piece of the puzzle,” says Misra.... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Aug 2017
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Into the Light

someone found a candle, and the IV was inserted by the light of a flame. “It’s simple: health care improves dramatically with electricity,” she says. Poindexter tells such stories with astonishment because she wasn’t aware of the extent... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2008
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An American Story

Hitler’s popularity grew, Boris emigrated to the United States with his wife and four children, settling in Dayton, Ohio. Times were tight and jobs few and far between. Boris heard about work at a shoe factory, but when he arrived, he View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics involved in execution. I felt like I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

business, government, and academia, with service as U.S. undersecretary of state; chairman and CEO of the NYSE; chairman of the SEC; and founding dean of the Yale School of Management. Ann S. Moore (MBA ’78) Ann Moore’s appointment as... View Details