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19 Dec 2014
News

Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

Leo F. Mullin (MBA 1967) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Atlanta Regional Event, December 11, 2014. Atlanta-area alumni and friends of Harvard View Details

15 Oct 2018
News

Venezuela’s Meltdown Creates a Nation of Desperate Capitalists

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

of the notion that we have entered such an era. There were a few exceptions. DDB cited the example of publishing: “what took 300 people in 1970s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

with each other: Highlights and lowlights of the work you did together. Consider specific wins you had as a team and what made that work together special. Name one or two times that View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

22 Mar 2022
News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

the economy at large absorb adverse economic shocks? Or does the local population decline, stuck in economic decay? The answers to those... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

31 Jan 2017
News

All The Single Ladies - Women Who Downplay Their Successes And Why It’s a Huge Mistake

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

just given it—conditional versus unconditional. Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit, and Das Narayandas, the James J. Hill Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

11 Aug 2014
News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

IMMUNE) and in your role as cofounder of Aromaflage? "The case method at HBS helped me learn to issue-spot, to listen carefully to an argument, and to synthesize and advance View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Presentation of 2021 Alumni Achievement Awards

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

photographers around the country to document the inner workings of the company and its subsidiaries as part of a... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

28 May 2017
Blog Post

HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

events in Africa? Africa is hugely important to the global community and is poised to become even more important economically. We need the perspectives of African students in... View Details

December 2017
Case

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta

It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria

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29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Making an Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Making an Impact Multiple Students Topics Business for Social Impact More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship View Details

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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Art Collection and the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection. Harvard Business School has recently acquired many of them. These artworks—by Ethiopian, Ghanaian, Namibian,... View Details

11 May 2020
News

Apple to produce millions of AirPods in Vietnam amid pandemic

2025
Book

After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup

By: Julia Austin

A lot of entrepreneurs are great at the idea part but do not anticipate the details required to actually run and scale a new venture. Drawing on my experience at renowned startups like Akamai Technologies, VMware, and DigitalOcean and the hundreds of founders and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management