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- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...
graduation, was actually founded by an HBS alumni a few years ahead of me who came in and presented in one of my second year classes. Another way the MBA was impactful to my career was the true quality of the learning while at HBS, which... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
the response was, ‘Well no, no one who has ever fought a pandemic is still alive,’” recalled Kiernan. Which was how he found himself helping configure policies, restrictions, and shutdowns, setting up the country’s first mass testing... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
come out of the prematriculation preparatory work feeling like an expert, I did feel fully confident entering the RC finance and accounting classroom. I also found over the course of the semester that the key to learning accounting and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
and methods have allowed local farmers to use water more efficiently, while also boosting their production and crop yields. Rosario Bazán is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Danper, a leading agribusiness based in Peru. Founded in... View Details
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Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014
Aldo Musacchio China Associate Professor Mikolaj Piskorski A Century of Business Research The Bureau of Business Research was founded in 1911 with the aim of deriving concrete, usable information within well-defined areas of... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Frida Polli (MBA 2012) came to HBS as a neuroscientist in search of a business problem to solve, and she found it during the recruitment season. All of these companies and job-seekers searching for hints of a good fit in handshakes and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
apply so that more will be admitted, above the 25 to 30 percent that typically are found in an entering MBA class. Bulletin: Besides women, who else would you encourage to apply to HBS? Fadule: Put simply, we want smart people with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
revealed striking contrasts between students' perceptions of HBS before and after entering the MBA Program," he explains. "On the whole, they found HBS much less competitive than they'd expected and far more friendly, responsive, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
throughout the days and found that payments were 21 percent higher (an average of 69 cents vs. 57 cents) when the communal norm signage was in place, and that pro-selfs paid as much as their pro-social counterparts in this condition. What... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
doctors and hospitals.” “No provider has all of your records,” says Bushkin, adding that a study published in the Journal of Patient Safety found that 440,000 Americans die annually as the result of medical errors. “Someone who is a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
additional task—to discuss the idea of loyalty for 10 minutes with other members of their group and then take a “loyalty pledge” to the group. (The other participants just discussed a neutral topic for 10 minutes in their groups.) When they tallied the results, Gino,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size, wherein it was constrained by a structure of having each of the firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
else—most of the political parties and certainly the government—thought that reintegration with Russia, given the set of material circumstances they faced, was clearly the most rational, the most prudent thing to do. Then in Ukraine what I View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Whillans: Recent studies have found links between employee happiness and organizational outcomes, such as productivity, absenteeism, and motivation. However, the current work-from-home situation poses significant challenges. Many people... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
drug approval times and propelled the agency to adopt 20th century information technology. She doesn’t like the word “retired.” Instead, MJ says that she “ceased paid employment” in 2003 as a partner at Accenture. Only now, however, does she feel that she is creating a... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
resources. We found martial arts to be the best avenue because of both the lessons learned and the fact that it is available to individuals of all shapes and sizes. There is certainly an economic barrier to participate in martial arts, so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School, HBS professor and ethicist Max... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
infrastructure aged. Since its founding in 2009, TaKaDu had attracted nine customers from around the world. However, as Peleg and his executive team debated how to allocate funding for the upcoming year, he needed to decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details