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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
lending, pawnbroking, refund-anticipation loans, and informal lending. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209107 Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
educational programs and from around the world. In any given year, about 5 percent of HBS MBA students are military—active duty, reservist, or veteran. The relationship between the military and Harvard University is often viewed by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
Tim Leach (MBA 2015) had backpacked in Africa before, so he was somewhat prepared for the heat, noise, traffic, dust, and disorientation he and his FIELD 2 team experienced in early January, when they emerged from the airport and began... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sridevi Raghavan
Looking out of the first floor balcony of my home in Chennai, I would notice laborers; rickshaw drivers and maids lovingly dropping their kids off at school. I could see their eyes sparkle with dreams and hopes for their children. I learned then of my passion to... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
Throughout late 2002 and early 2003, Koehn and her team continued working on the project. However, after many months of research and a visit to Chicago to watch Winfrey tape a show, they still had not gained access to company executives.... View Details
- Profile
Juan Camargo
car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
growth dispelled the idea that something about the “nature of India” made rapid growth difficult. Broad-ranging reforms in the mid-1980s and early 1990s deregulated legal barriers to entry into many industries and greatly reduced barriers... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
in early April 2024, recently published the first State Opportunity Index. And while the U.S. in general has roughly the best higher education system in the world, we’re not doing as well—at least not as... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
topics such as entrepreneurship and innovation; disruptive innovation, growth, and strategy; and the microeconomics of competitiveness. Finally, HBX this summer will introduce HBX Live, a virtual classroom allowing participants worldwide to interact directly with one... View Details
- Profile
Samuel Racana
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I grew up in a very international home and I learned early on that I wanted to explore a career outside Sweden. After a few years in Latin America, working with initiatives to improve... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Kraus comes in. Kraus teaches the second-year MBA course Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL) and is currently helping to develop a similar Executive Education program called Crossroads. The two courses attract different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
price point, packaging, colors. I wanted to make a product that I would buy and that my friends would buy. OW: I’m sure it wasn’t all smooth sailing in the early months or years. Were there any moments where you thought, this is not going... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more economically competitive an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Portrait Project
Kristie Gan
enchanting. I looked forward to it every year to cool down the blistering summers. But one day after I had been playing in the rain, I found myself gasping for air as my grandmother rushed me to an emergency room. This was the day I was diagnosed with severe... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
and moving some activities online when the virus becomes more widespread (as happened in early November). We also transitioned many of our Executive Education programs into a virtual delivery model... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
soundtrack of Dominican life. The young musicians are all a part of the nonprofit iASO Bachata Academy, established by Ben de Menil (MBA 2006) in 2013 to preserve the country’s musical tradition and educate a new generation of Dominican... View Details
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
programs ranging from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. The organization is largely funded on a project basis by groups like the National... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
in September, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by one of my colleagues, Rakesh Khurana, may help explain it. Khurana traces the development of business schools from their early days in a small number of "elite" institutions (his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett