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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
same from financial services firms. However, consumers understandably have a different bar when it comes to shopping online for clothes versus picking the financial product that’s best for them. Finances aren’t just personal, they are View Details
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
and international technology. Rushing to dismantle the business groups that now fill these institutional voids could do more harm than good. It would simply reinforce the inefficiency of the private sector and may intensify social distress, which emerging economies are... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
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effectively required that McArthur, like Eisenhower, accomplish most of his work in private - one-on-one or in small groups - and that he pay extremely close attention to the personal needs of his faculty and staff. McArthur did this in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson When we discussed the concept of crucibles at HBS, my best guess then—based on my dating record and polycystic ovaries—was that I might struggle with finding a life partner and with fertility. As I re-emerge from my first real... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
he observes. But there may be the practical issue of money. “Although startups don’t often offer as competitive a salary as established companies,” Rahil notes, “HBS has a Summer Fellows Program that provides funding to students founding companies or working at... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Sustaining a Successful Enterprise have been extremely helpful as I think about how to innovate in a more traditional field like education.” Bichara, who served as one of the social chairs for his section as well as the Student... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
I’m unemployed.” Yet every day I was leading a prayer conference call for hundreds of people from across the country. The feedback was that my words were extremely encouraging and helpful. So there’s a sense of envy in realizing God’s... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
explained Thomke. “I invited Jason to class to help students understand how people at the top of their profession innovate in an extremely competitive environment.” It was a class that few of Thomke’s students will ever forget. Randal,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
Many products are sold for just one selling season. It’s extremely difficult to predict demand—sometimes demand actually increases as the price goes up due to perceived quality and popularity. These factors make selling fashion products... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
staying in the United States,” she says. “Israel is home. I’m extremely attached to my home and language. But my options are much more limited there.” Discovering her “I” in the iLab In her second, Elective Curriculum, year, Noa expanded... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
rewards were huge, as I was able to join a startup in Silicon Valley, work and learn from amazing people, and launch and manage new product lines in the home services space. For someone who is passionate about startups, living in Silicon Valley is View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
Valley, work and learn from amazing people, and launch and manage new product lines in the home services space. For someone who is passionate about startups, living in Silicon Valley is extremely exciting. Every day you get to witness the... View Details
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Kaki Ettinger
School experience shaped your goals & career path? HBS greatly deepened my understanding of markets, industries and the roles that different functional specialists play at the types of companies I was most interested in. My professors, committed to creating... View Details
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Security & Privacy | Information Technology
people, you need to be extremely careful regarding what tools you use. Password Managers A password manager can help you juggle the need to have unique complex passwords at every site. Working Remotely? These best practices will help you... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
Fayelle Ouane (MBA 2009) founded Suguba to create transformative change on the African continent. In this interview, she discusses the path to achieving that deep impact. “So I'm originally from Mali, but I grew up in Switzerland. And I was View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
with a free market, and replacing it with a government-owned or government-controlled airline industry. Although Emirates has done an extremely good job when it comes to customer service, I would argue that the primary reason for its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Europe is seething with nationalism and racism. There are large and growing extreme right wing parties from Sweden to Greece, many of which enjoy waving Nazi flags. Fascist parties are in power in Hungary and Poland. There is a huge... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
much bigger, "gleaming" roadways, and he feels a growing concern that America's transportation and infrastructure systems are lacking attention and falling behind. “We suffer through an extremely aged and outdated... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mark fifty years after the event, the statistics that marked extreme achievement on Everest were blown away as new records for the oldest, most often, and fastest climbs were logged in over a one-week period. Excelsior! It's an... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
countries. There is a popular intuition that these countries are extremely risky and, consequently, capital budgeting practices reflect this notion by requiring extremely high rates of return on activities... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell