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- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
appealing for students who come from the armed forces and nontraditional business backgrounds who are seeking to build technical skills.” Banks offer excellent training opportunities for motivated students who bring valuable leadership... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Sanginga had founded a youth “agripreneurs” program, which would train young university graduates on improved agricultural practices, food processing, and strategies for starting an agribusiness. Since its establishment in 2012, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
daunting challenges, but they each expressed a zealous commitment to their work and a heartfelt belief in their products. Brand Recognition: Michael Moynihan Michael T. Moynihan (MBA 1993) was reintroduced to LEGO as an adult when his job... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and T-shirts. Going against the corporate norm is nothing new for Scher, who shunned the usual perks and salary an HBS graduate typically commands in favor of the glamourless, risky, and low-paying job of starting up a company that wasn't... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
concentration and are correlated with differences in firm performance. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 By: Chen, Hui, Katherine Gunny, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
online hub for agribusiness entrepreneurs. “We have created a resource center offering COVID-19 information and weekly webinars, and we are developing training and small-grant interventions programs to help SMEs survive the pandemic and... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
the Toyota Production System or cartels in the steel industry. That was one of the real differences in teaching MBAs; part of my job was to try to tap the wealth of their collective experience and knowledge so that they could, in fact,... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
professionals. New roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined in advance, and teamwork models that include factors common in successful redesigns such as leadership, shared objectives, and training should be promoted. The focus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
whole country." Suspecting she could help people better if she actually met them, Ashraf sought out field research volunteer opportunities, packed her bags, and flew to the Ivory Coast (where she helped found the Rural Women's Training... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
produced by the Polaroid Corp." 27 In 1943, Newsweek magazine featured on its cover a photograph of U. S. Army General George Patton wearing Polaroid goggles. 28 The Polaroid facility included a machine gun training room with 20-foot high... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
country and firm-level data. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of MCSR laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases and both sustainable development and employee training become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
local bakery. On our way home, he’d point out the copper gutters, slate roofs, and other architectural details that identified ‘an Allegue house.’ That’s really what trained my eye and triggered my enthusiasm for the built environment.”... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the process of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
papers. He noted while “some of the first-year students felt that their painful literary efforts deserved male consideration,” HBS had discovered that “competent young ladies could be employed and trained to do a more careful, dependable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
faithful classmates who touch base at least once a year with news of the kids, a job change, or exciting vacation exploits. Their summaries enrich the continuing narrative of the Class Notes — Harvard Business School's own version of an... View Details