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01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

inclusivity. We have a conscious bias toward companies with diverse leadership and companies focused on solving problems that disproportionately affect women and people of color. Both are systematically... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

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

equipment for US soldiers. He argued, "[T]here is a complete lack of understanding of the problems of human beings and the problem of making a human being a good fighting person." 26 "Doriot undertook to... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. Marla Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) CEO and Cofounder, Bluemercury Inc. First job: Accounting work in her dad’s real... View Details

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

authors made sure that it was more candid than congratulatory. "The Dean made it clear early on that what really happened here is what should be in the case, because one way to make the future of this institution better is to talk honestly about our past. So there... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

just a liberal arts degree, I'm not sure it would have been the same outcome. My other favorite observation on the School which everybody's heard a hundred times is that the B School, I think, can make a good man better, but it can't make... View Details

30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

the problem. And so we had to inch our way towards this, and it took longer than we thought. Morrell: Why don't we talk about the IKEA example, and how that's a View Details

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

money has been collected, eBay sends the gift, along with the list of all contributors and short notes from them, to the recipient. This application generated three types of immediate benefits for eBay. First, the average price of Group... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good... View Details

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Global Climate Change

can provide a good sense of what has been done in a topical area including both practically and theoretically. These three databases are useful for that purpose. They covers various topics in areas of... View Details

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

them came in having already done that. “I was an older student than many. I was married and had lived in the area. I went in knowing I wanted to work in the social sector, wanted to stay in Boston, and... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

provide robust support for innovative teaching and research. Across the School’s core programs and activities, the resilience and growth we demonstrated this year underlines... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

business is often considered just a branch of the entertainment industry, clearly it is much more than that. Sports are part of the fabric of society, with components of deep emotional attachment, civic pride, and familial View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Print View - Course Catalog

irrational and whose interest it serves. Creating environments. What strategies can leaders use to design and build environments conducive to better decisions? We explore the construction of environments... View Details

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