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Triston Francis
says. “I always ask myself if the way I spend my time enhances my leadership prospects. It’s hard to argue that a place like HBS doesn’t do that.” As an example, Triston offers the SIP (Short Intensive Program), ”The Life and Role of the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
they're often the purchasers or the influencers. So there's a lot of effort now to understand how to reach them, how to find products and services that will support what they're doing either in caregiving, but throughout the View Details
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Business culture
appearance, greetings, visiting, family, life cycle and more. Expatexchange: An on-line community for English-speaking expatriates. Includes country guides -- a collection of articles about each... View Details
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Aline Camargo
was able to share my thoughts and concerns with friends, professors, career coaches, alumni and MBA administration managers who helped me much to brainstorm about decisions and life paths that would make me an effective leader and a happy... View Details
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Emily Hannenberg
Immersion. "They're important ways to explore leadership in new contexts, to see what 'sticks' within a business environment," she says. When she considers life after the MBA, Emily anticipates "looking at consulting roles... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 30 Oct 2019
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Creating Agents of Change
health, education, and empowerment through life skills and employment. “Success for us is that, by the time the young adults leave our program at age 24, they're living above the level of poverty in their country. In most cases, this is... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
wedding in 2003. Then life got very complicated. Less than twelve months after getting married, Jen was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare cancer of the soft tissue. For two years, she endured painful rounds of chemotherapy in her valiant... View Details
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Kamoy Smalling
pushed pause on our family’s cycle of intergenerational economic hardship. She promoted us from poverty in Jamaica to working class life in New York City. Nestled in a neighborhood where the sounds of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jean Hayden
When we came to Harvard Business School we had to squash our lives onto a one-page resume. I hated it – I had to leave off all the weird things about my life that I actually thought were the most interesting. I may have worked as an... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often without transferable skills or training. The View Details
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
Tom Chen (MBA 2021) and Student Association representatives Abby Burcham (MBA 2021) and Matthew Shackelford (MBA 2021), we picked a date (March 31st) and hired our production partner. In selecting a charity, we were drawn to a new... View Details
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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
carefully examine the outcomes relative to cost for every new drug and device introduced. Key Action Steps for Suppliers Base strategies on creating unique value for patients Focus on cycles of care rather than narrow View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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David M. Hughes
cause, Hughes worked tirelessly to enhance campus life for his fellow students. As president of his section, for example, he helped communicate to the administration the special needs of the first-ever January cohort (those students... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
Anthony Overton
A pioneer black manufacturer, Overton established Hygienic in 1898 and produced baking powder, extracts, and toilet preparations. After moving the firm from Kansas to Chicago, he began to manufacture a full line of cosmetics and perfumes under the High-Brown View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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Kelly O’Neil
the compost I so detested. When I look at wastes now, I see their potential. Most of the world's markets are defined by broken lifecycles – we extract, manufacture, use, and then abandon. By finding ways to extract the stored energy from the refuse of our privileged... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
Europe, he received the State Department's Meritorious Service Award in 1952. After more than twenty years of government service, Vernon became the planning and control director for Hawley and Hoops, Inc., the Newark firm that made M&M's chocolate candies. Committed to... View Details
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Ameel Somani
Through his own family history, Ameel Somani has witnessed the complete entrepreneurial cycle from ambition to success, from loss to renewal. "My grandfather moved to East Africa when he was twelve and built Tanzania's largest chain... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
grew up in a house in Pakistan with nine siblings where she learned how to have productive conversations despite opposing views. Maha brought this experience from her dinner table to the case method and to the pursuit of her joint degree... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate the latest technology used in... View Details