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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included internships at Merrill Lynch and Putnam, consideration of joining Teach for America or law school, and then ultimately... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

was purchased for approximately $1.1B by Ariba, where Mr. Burgstone served as Vice President and co-head of corporate development. He has also worked as a high-tech strategy consultant (semiconductor, telecom, online financial services),... View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

valuable resource for management and the board. The family council can be composed in several ways, the typical way being one member elected per family branch. One should try to compose the family council so that it "looks" like... View Details

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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

Management 102 Blavatnik Fellowship (Apply as EC) What competitions are available? New Venture Competition , President’s Innovation Challenge , SEAS i3 Innovation Challenge , HBS Clubs’ pitch events How do I find a job at a startup?... View Details

15 Nov 2022
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Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

earning billions, kept churning out its pills. By now, this story is a familiar one. But what is less well known is that the company had help not only from management consultant McKinsey & Company, which... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

30 Nov 2021
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What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

industries. Although he famously kept a low profile, leaders of business and government consistently sought and received his advice. Baker appreciated the impact of unsteady economic times, and his 1924 gift to the School was understood to be an endorsement of the need... View Details

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAvaya (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-048 Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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All Functions - Recruiting

Employment Data All Functions Employment Data All Functions All Functions Select a Function to Access Additional Detail Pages: All Functions All Functions Business Development Consulting Finance General View Details

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Education programs each year Alumni Clubs provide over $10 million annually in pro-bono consulting to non-profits Club Activities include: Social enterprise events and programs for alumni Volunteer View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

School that provides a forum for exploring the synergies between all sectors to address critical social issues worldwide. Consulting for Impact Club The Consulting for Impact Club (CFI) matches Harvard MBA... View Details

12 Oct 1999
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A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

all have to be in alignment." Along with Russell A. Eisenstat, an independent consultant and former HBS faculty member, Beer has developed a process called Organizational Fitness Profiling, which helps a CEO or business unit general... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

instructors at other institutions in the United States and abroad. Services for HBS Faculty The Christensen Center supports all current Harvard Business School faculty through online resources and confidential one-on-one consulting... View Details

25 Jan 2016
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When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

public US-based companies between 1985 and 2012, looking at the price-per-share number of each offer. Based on what they already knew about the efficacy of precise numbers, they assumed that round-number bids would be in the minority. But it seemed that the investment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Academics - Health Care

interests in organizations that provide health care (e.g., hospitals, medical groups, retail clinics) or in firms that partner with, supply, consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device... View Details

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Andrew Binns, a consultant affiliated with HBS’s Digital Initiative. Tushman, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, chairs the Advanced Management Program at... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

CO2 while reducing ocean acidity. Vanessa's role prior to HBS was a Consultant at BCG and Project Manager at NextEra Energy. Margot Zuckerman (MBA 2024, Section H), Summer Internship: Sales & Marketing,... View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

This book gives an overview to the philosophy and applied strategies of teaching in a participant-centered learning environment. Articles September 2007 Academy of Management Learning & Education Vol. 6, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 364-374.... View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

include, but are not limited to data sourcing and purchasing, locating data, finding articles, managing citations, creating charts and graphs for papers or presentations, utilizing Baker Library’s databases, diving deeply into Excel’s... View Details

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