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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

questions about climate impact and financial viability, set against the backdrop of a fast-evolving sector. Why This Path? I came to HBS with the goal of transitioning from advisory roles into investment roles, particularly in sectors... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit

to make high-stakes decisions that affect a lot of people, and you have to act quickly or you're in trouble," Carpenter explains. "Managing an Internet firm is just like that." Despite the challenge, under Carpenter's expert guidance, her company, iVillage -a View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious

endowment and foundation boards. The Network Effect Ma has found the HBS alumni network to be particularly valuable both throughout her career and in her personal life. “The alumni community is a group of... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Jan Pianca

Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s relationships with European companies.... View Details

26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty

provides a mentoring network to let students explore a variety of careers. It also funds leadership camps for students and provides financial education to students and young adults in the community. “After... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld View Details

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says Igun, who was born in Nigeria and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

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Juan Leung Li

Juan draws on his own career journey and his experience supporting tech entrepreneurs and executives to coach students. Most career paths look like a straight line in hindsight -- those cases are rare. In reality, discovering fulfilling jobs and leading impactful... View Details

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01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

Networks Authors:Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

presented Sheil with an opportunity to reflect and then narrow her focus on what she wanted to be doing in the climate sustainability space. With her goals defined, it was time for HBS and a pivot into systems change from a financial... View Details

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation, whereas it is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2007
News

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho

array of sectors before recruiting begins. Over an eight-week period in September and October, students learned about more than twelve different industries by attending an informational overview session; an alumni panel to share advice and provide View Details

30 Mar 2015
News

Raising the bar to provide quality education

With some other people in the financial sector we started a charity called ARK—Absolute Return for Kids—and one of the things we did was start a network of academy schools, which were government schools that... View Details

November 2021
Supplement

Ant Group (B)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Feng Zhu and Susie L. Ma

Keywords: Information Technology; Value Creation; Network Effects; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; China

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Purchase

14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

Harvard Business Review Putting Sales at the Center of Strategy By: Cespedes, Frank Abstract—Research indicates that relatively few firms execute their strategies effectively, and, on average, companies deliver just 50% to 60% of the View Details