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21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

capital. In order to do all of this, certainly my background in finance helped, but I also earned the FSA credential levels I and II that is issued by the SASB and this allowed me to apply their framework when evaluating public equities... View Details

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

Should We Encourage the Redistribution of Benefits of Globalization? If So, How? The benefits of globalization outweigh the costs. But the costs are not being distributed equitably among investors, workers, consumers, and the public in... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

Professor John Davis is still fresh in my mind and I often use it to reflect on certain decisions.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work at MAYU? “My wife is the heart and brains behind MAYU, as she oversees the design, sourcing, manufacturing, View Details

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this affects which View Details

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Demonstration Policy | About

the School. Those who choose to express dissent, including through demonstrations, must also recognize their responsibility to uphold and abide by these values. Policies & Practices Our policies and practices for demonstrations are designed to enable free expression,... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

founders whose startup concept is selected as a team project will accelerate their concept’s development. Students committed to joining a startup upon graduation will gain practice with a range of relevant skills. Students debating... View Details

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and public health, so that he could best apply his experience to enhance an existing nonprofit’s work. In 2019, D’Antonio joined the national nonprofit Shatterproof as executive vice president, with a... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Leading at State

a special limited partner at Greylock, began his career working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara (MBA 1939) in the 1960s. That experience left him with a deep appreciation for those in public service and for... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

now have a better understanding of sustainability and which companies are doing it right. I’m armed with talking points proving that sustainability is good for business, the environment, and its people." Brooks Wallace Public relations... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

behavior; (3) a top-down or laissez-faire style by the leader, which prevents honest conversation about problems; (4) a lack of coordination across businesses, functions, or regions due to poor organizational design; (5) inadequate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

development, fluid teams of individuals with different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to the success of their organizations. Although building teams from individuals with diverse prior experience is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

examining data from the first eight years of biosimilar competition in 23 European countries. A major contribution of this project is the completion of a detailed survey, allowing us to precisely characterize European biologic drug... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

making more explicit business arguments for IT in the context of senior leadership meetings, and inviting the CEO and partners into important, risk trade-off decisions. An important lesson Barton learns over the course of the novel, after rashly seizing control of IT... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

Economics Paul Novosad. “Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities” Among their findings: Powerful countries including the United States, China, and India have less... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

has to retail shopping. Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the M.S./M.B.A. program in life sciences at Harvard Business School. He is also Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

contributed an essay on creative capitalism to the blog Creative Capitalism: A Conversation (No longer available, -ed.), run by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke. We reprint her comments here with permission from the site. Bill Gates has... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

Not only do students learn more about resources at HBS and HLS but also, they have the time to pursue long-term projects that require more effort. Students have co-written cases with HBS professors, published Harvard Law Review student... View Details

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