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programs) Executive Education Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education brings together senior executives from the world’s most influential organizations, resulting in unparalleled diversity. We achieve this mission by working closely with faculty to design and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
so,” Kempf says. “We see it in views of the economy or views of certain risks, like the risk posed by certain political events or climate change or by the pandemic. There’s even the growing importance of partisanship in determining who works together and who does View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Business School's commitment to international business education has expanded. When Dean Kim B. Clark announced plans last fall for the opening of an HBS research facility in Hong Kong, he underscored the importance of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
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Summer Venture in Management | MBA
18, 2025 Application Opens February 12, 2025 Application Deadline March 28 , 2025 Notification of Acceptance April 29, 2025 SVMP showed me the unique power of the case method teaching style. I saw firsthand how learning business skills... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
think several factors are at work. First, financial engineering increasingly allows for cheap recharacterizations of income for tax and book purposes, making tax obligations easily disappear. Second, the growing global reach of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
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Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA
major factor in your career choice. Play Video duration: 1:16 Financial Support At & After Graduation Harvard Business School (HBS) has a variety of career support programs for eligible students that provide View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—In this paper, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and transformation) and why currently isolated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Lauren Booker
management, and supervising people." Transitioning into investing and economic development While her work at Goldman was satisfying, Lauren "wanted to transition within financial services to investment banking and ultimately... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
incentives, such as “badges” and social status on a platform, are often used to encourage and steer contributions. I then discuss other issues including business models, network effects, and privacy. Throughout the paper, I discuss open... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
“We cover the financial community as our beat,” says CNBC president and CEO Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA ’88/JD’89). “So in many ways the terrorist attacks felt very personal to us as a news organization.” After doing a headcount to... View Details
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Ryu Kawano
As a Japanese citizen who grew up in Indonesia, Ryu Kawano is certainly no stranger to multicultural diversity. But when it was time to get a college education, he came to the United States to experience even greater variety, despite a family-owned business that was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
changing needs of the School. Three new building projects focus on Executive Education, recognizing the growing reach and impact the School is achieving through the more than 8,000 participants who come to campus each year. Tata Hall (above), named in honor of Ratan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls... View Details
- 04 Apr 2014
- News
Increasing Access to Education
Describing HBS as “one of the best experiences in my life,” Melinda J. Mount wanted to help the next generation of leaders transform their lives by earning an MBA from HBS. In honor of her 25th Reunion, she established a fellowship to support women students. “HBS View Details