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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
(July 6, 2001) reported. With hundreds of thousands of displaced people now starting to return to their homes, UNICEF's Sierra Leone representative JoAnna Van Gerpen (MBA '81) explained, "We need to have schools and health facilities.... View Details
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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting
align with their skills and interests. These self-driven efforts often lead to meaningful, high-impact internships that wouldn’t exist through traditional recruiting channels. If your organization is contacted by an HBS student with a tailored proposal, it could be the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
to joining HBS, Schoonbeek worked at McKinsey for two years analyzing a range of business problems in different industries. “HBS was a very logical extension to that experience because after a few years at McKinsey you have an... View Details
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Stephen Temple
Stephen Temple has always enjoyed a good challenge – both personally and professionally. An Ironman triathlete, Brand Manager, and aspiring entrepreneur, his journey has led him to take on a new series of challenges alongside his classmates at HBS. An entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
overheads? I recall that in my day a particularly endearing, if mobility-challenged, professor would repeatedly collide with the overhead projector while executing the complex tango steps inherent to case-method facilitation. No such View Details
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Christopher Maloney
wherever I go-I just need to work to find it. Nonetheless, embracing that realization may take a lifetime. I work primarily on African development issues. My affinity for Africa started in high school, working with disadvantaged youth in... View Details
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Rakhshan Zahid
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I came to HBS to switch tracks from finance to starting my own business. We have a course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and in every class, we look at a new business from... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
working on an exciting idea or I can identify a problem that needs solving and develop the solution myself. Ultimately, I want to take the plunge and start my own company.” —Jeremy Sasson (MBA 2018) Startup... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
new plant, because one encounters very different problems in starting up a new plant than in running a well-tuned one. When a slowly growing firm's leaders decide they need to launch a new-growth business to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Dec 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
loved, not the winning.” Gamechanger: “After I stopped being solely focused on my results, I started to climb back up the ladder and won the last, biggest race of the year. That got me an invitation to the US team camp. From there, I was... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
prior, arriving here with no contacts and no English, ready to start a new life. Seeing her would have been an emotional experience no matter what, but having been supported through chemo for the prior few months, arriving together on the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
to understand the real problem that needs to be solved. Some magicians spend a lot of time considering which illusion they want to accomplish before they start working on how to accomplish the trick. Too... View Details
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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
Case Series on Swiss Watch Industry While teaching at IMEDE, Kenneth Andrews conducts research into secretive Swiss watch industry and then writes about it in a groundbreaking case series. 1957 Play Video duration: 7:52 The HBS Division of Audio-Visual Education View Details
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Janelle McDonald
people.” Taking a chance, she started consulting with a small firm just outside of Washington DC. From there, Janelle went on to Accenture, where she enjoyed the rush of “working on some of the most challenging business View Details
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Jeff Bernstein
'real world,'" Jeff says, "I found that I enjoyed the business aspects of my job more than the technical part. I preferred leading teams to solve problems as opposed to getting drawn into specific design issues." Jeff's... View Details