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26 Oct 2018
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Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

media both personally and academically. As a first year Required Curriculum (RC) student, I came to understand what financial, operational, and cultural aspects I needed to consider to be an effective leader post-HBS and, thankfully, I... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

addition, we encourage you to collaborate with your peers to find answers to any questions you may have. We appreciate your understanding that HBS Online faculty and guest experts featured in our courses are not available to communicate... View Details

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Bryan Stromer

supportive than HBS, and this support has given me the confidence to take greater risks, which is something that I hope to bring with me into the workforce and beyond. How have diverse perspectives in your section contributed to your View Details

18 Feb 2020
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A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

me, her recognizably warm and glowing demeanor immediately disarming. "I've heard of you,” she said, “we have a lot of interests in common.” We chatted about travel and sustainable agriculture. “Let’s stay in touch, I’d love to get to... View Details

18 Feb 2019
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What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

they're doing and emulate or respond. When Coca-Cola launches a new product or reduces prices, it's easy for Pepsi to identify that. It's easy to go to the board or to your boss and say, “Our competitor is doing this. We should respond.” It’s very hard to View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

ability to charge higher rates generated historic ocean shipping revenue of $48 billion and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $18 billion, for a margin of 37%. This was in contrast to the traditional low-margin nature of the... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

short-term, bottom line thinking drive decisions contrary to the best interests of that business (and society) over the long term. Frankly, the threat that is posed by climate change to our planet must now be thought of as short-term.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

experience. After the league spun out NBA Africa as a standalone entity, it found interested investors in former NBA players who hail from the continent, including South Sudan’s Luol Deng and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Dikembe... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

dry lease) model is recognized as a strategic move. This shift allows for rapid scaling of the bus fleet without the need for substantial upfront capital. Collaboration with Private Actors: While BEST excels in expanding the government fleet, there's an View Details

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

relationships for them are other JD/MBAs. In fact, the third and fourth years take a seminar together in which students present topics of interest to the seminar. The seminar, led by the wonderful Professor Guhan Subraminan, Faculty... View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

that owners of minority businesses are not only rejected for loans more often than white borrowers, but they also are charged significantly higher interest rates, on average. Overall, more than half of small business owners say their... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

experience thus far? One of the highlights of my HBS experience so far has been the Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Short Intensive Program (SIP). I love marketing and am interested in pursuing entrepreneurship post business... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

WTO, World Bank, and the OECD. Or they could be related to lagging capabilities of domestic companies, either in understanding foreign markets or in their own products, services, or value chains. Another large body of thinking is devoted... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

arts and e-sports. Baseball could definitely do more promotion with their young stars. They tend to leave it to the individual teams. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with home-run champion Aaron Judge. They’ve had those... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

certainly this paper, is trying to understand better what happens in diverse workplaces. How do people understand themselves and relate to each other? In this study, we were View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

Now Key Concepts Become fluent in disruptive innovation theory Assess new opportunities and potential threats Discover jobs to be done and develop frameworks to better understand customer needs Acquire techniques for executive-level... View Details

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response. This assessment reveals that our View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2021
News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA 2022) View Details

03 Dec 2021
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Physicians Off the Beaten Path

Faraz and Youssef lead by example. Faraz is a physician, writer and current MBA student at Harvard Business School. He has an MD from Cornell University and his writings have been published in The New York Times, NPR, CNN, New York Daily News, and more. He is View Details

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