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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
spring course, Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) 1418, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is designed to improve your ability to... View Details
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
and through triumphs of engineering and optics to develop, produce, patent, protect, market, and adapt aspiring products of superior design and utility that served human needs and expression. His unifying vision of Polaroid took form... View Details
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees HBS offers a loan reduction program for students from the graduating MBA Class who are working in the private sector at a job that pays significantly below the HBS average. These awards offer a... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
did a job not designated for their employer. In 40 percent of these cases, that "something" was an object. Homer making is not, however, a French phenomenon—court proceedings of fired homer makers... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
same financial oversight as the prudential regulator. Risk Still In Play The difficulty with this approach is that even if the prudential regulator does its job of managing risk well, the risk in the financial system will not disappear.... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
guiding north stars, and I am confident I would have relentlessly pursued them regardless. However, I think 2+2 enabled me to have perspective when most people aren’t as fortunate. Your first job post-undergraduate can be all-consuming,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
communicated to workers what actions had been taken. The 20 hospitals identified 1,732 safety-related problems in areas such as facility design and maintenance, equipment and supplies, communication, staffing, and medication issues. On... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
metric for measuring the doctor's work is a near perfect solution while the manager has to deliver the most effective outcome vis-à-vis original plans." One interesting comment about what managers can learn was offered by Darryl Duncan, who asked, "I wonder... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
my life. Joking aside, getting great press or opening a large account are the entrepreneurial highs that keep us going. The most challenging part of the business is managing inventory. It is easy to be aspirational and to design the next... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
relevant as it once was. Comprehend/Challenge On the organizational level, this drive is usually satisfied through job design. Best practices include designing jobs that... View Details
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
relevant as it once was. Comprehend/Challenge On the organizational level, this drive is usually satisfied through job design. Best practices include designing jobs that... View Details
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Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting
consider hosting a company event . The key to a successful event is the dialogue between students and recruiters. Company events provide the perfect platform for organizations to engage students in discussion around company values, job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
running the equipment to the plant manager, and there were definitely some heated conversations. I had moments of frustration, but managed to keep those feelings to myself. I had to understand that people in general, myself included, sometimes don’t like change. When... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
economy, wanted to see how the algorithm performed. What she found surprised her: Although Airbnb had designed the pricing tool to be race-blind, the algorithm nonetheless widened the revenue gap between white and Black hosts. The reasons... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
color, are an integral part of the experience. Visitors can come just to stroll or picnic on the grounds. Creating that same close-to-nature ambiance inside the building required imaginative technology and painstaking attention to detail throughout a three-year View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
announcements about additional cities soon. “It’s taken a lot of political courage for Ithaca to say: ‘We want to be the first city in the U.S. and the world to decarbonize all our buildings.’” Keith added: “We don’t know yet how many View Details