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July 2006
Article

Bringing History (Back) into International Business

We argue that the field of international business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that 'history matters' to exploring how it matters. We discuss four conceptual channels through which history matters, illustrating each with a major... View Details

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08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

thwarting the confident protagonists of an apparently popular project. Actively monitor local currents and cross-currents of opinion. Reportedly, Amazon did not hire a single New Yorker to continuously engage with community View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

guests), students work in small groups supervised by their faculty mentors to conduct due diligence on a business for possible investment by the HBS Impact Investment Fund and/or one of our local partners. Working closely with... View Details

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Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program The Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program (REAP) is a virtual program designed specifically for HBS alumni. These Advisors are a highly curated group of exceptional, experienced entrepreneurs View Details

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

Second, I learned when to not trust my answer. For the entire first year, Harvard places new students in a section—a deliberately diverse group of 90 students. In each class, we’d come prepared, having read View Details

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

learning, support and opportunities through interactive group programming. Inspiring Capital The Return with Purpose Fellowship is a year-long experiential learning program with exposure to Inspiring... View Details

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Circles . Beyond the Summit: Connection Session – Harness the momentum from the Summit! Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) organized virtual sessions for small groups of attendees to reflect on key takeaways, share personal action plans, View Details

Portrait Project

Adan Acevedo

civil war. I want to elevate stories from underrepresented groups that need to be told on the big screen and give kids from low-income neighborhoods the opportunity to achieve their wildest dreams – dreams... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

how effective these online interventions are at shaping public health outcomes. The research team found that the average campaign shifted self-reported outcomes close to 1 percent of baseline estimates, and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

(core curriculum) classes with these 90 people in the same classroom. Think of section as your homeroom/extended family at HBS. Instead of dealing with 900+ new names and faces, you get to start with 90. Philipp: The section is much more... View Details

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

fluctuations. Zhang and her coauthors were curious whether the algorithm might help reduce racial inequalities by optimizing nightly rates for both white and Black hosts, so everyone could benefit... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in negotiations. We develop grounded... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

Stagflation? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration created by HBSWK using images from AdobeStock/wachiwat and AdobeStock/WP! View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2023
News

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

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

decision was announced captures the despair and anger of the workers to be displaced. It also captures a management team trying to act reasonably by giving workers a rare one-year notice of the move—but... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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PRIMO News Stories - Doctoral

focused on Harvard College students, the program expanded its mission to reflect a diverse group of learners and in 2017 accepted students from two other Massachusetts colleges; Wellesley View Details

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP is led by Professor Peter Barrett , and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

members at Cape Cod Retreat The HBS Africa Business Club has a special place in my heart. I currently serve as the CFO of the club and it has been great to plan events for the school year with other devoted executive View Details

2019
Working Paper

Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong

Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Change; Diversity

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