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13 May 2019

HBS ShowCASE in Miami

This event will give prospective MBA students the opportunity to try out our signature pedagogy of the case method. You won’t just be witnessing the case method in action, you’ll actively be participating in it. What better way to see if the MBA program at HBS is a... View Details

13 Jan 2022

Top Business Schools Discuss: Benefits of Deferred MBA Programs for Undergraduates

Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and the Wharton School for a... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Fever Pitch

great generation of small business owners. Most Innovative Selected by alumni and students BollyX Fitness (Northeastern US Region) Minal Mehta (MBA 2011) The world’s leading and fastest-growing Bollywood View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Personal Services

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

(in a similar range of roles) that try to maintain a similar, nimble operating model as a startup. Those who are interested in investing in startups. The class focus is on pre-product-market fit technology-based ventures in a range of... View Details

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Prita Kumar

operations. “The more I saw people transform businesses, the more I wanted to do that, rather than do analyses.” The right fit for entrepreneurship Prita came to HBS with a business idea she wanted to develop: Booya Fitness, “a Hulu for... View Details

Portrait Project

Camille McGirt

airplane, to my confidence, to getting comments and stares everywhere I go — it is not easy. This world just was not built for me as a woman in the 99th height percentile. As a tall girl I have often felt a sense of “otherness” because I just never View Details

01 Sep 2010
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HBS Wins Green Business Award

HBS Operations has received a 2010 City of Boston Green Business Award in recognition of the numerous green technologies used at Shad Hall, the School’s fitness and recreation facility and its showcase for sustainability. Energy-saving... View Details

Career Coach

Mandy Xu

serving the client – and is happy to share her takeaways. She welcomes conversations with students looking for the right career fit post-MBA and enjoys dialogue around personal values and fulfillment. To book an appointment, please send... View Details

15 May 2015
Blog Post

Tips for Applying to Business School

chose recommenders who had seen me take on responsibility, struggle at times, and adapt to reach my goals. I think this matters much more than having recommenders with a particular job title or connection with HBS. Get to know HBS and decide if it’s the right View Details

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

of the Latin America Research Center (LARC), is about a difficult personnel decision Bruck, a rising star in the Argentina-based Amazon rival, faced. In 2017, as corporate sales director at MercadoLibre, she managed a smart and dedicated employee who did not View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Sankofa!

Sankofa, a word in the Akan language of Ghana, embodies the idea of learning from the past to build for the future — a fitting name for a student performance that draws its inspiration from the rich cultural traditions of the African... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2009
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Downhill Re-Boot

softer “walking” boot that fits into a carbon-fiber chassis that in turn fits into a ski binding. “Our whole design concept is first and foremost to have a boot that’s comfortable,” Hanson told the... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

uncovered these obstacles using a process they refined more than a decade ago called Organizational Fitness Profiling (OFP). OFP helps CEOs or business unit general managers and their top teams assess how well an operation View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Oct 2014
Blog Post

HBS Class of 2016

HBS that would be a great fit for your organization. The idea of sorting through hundreds of resumes is a daunting task, especially if you are looking for specific criteria. Our office can help with this! Our class and club resume book... View Details

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Imran Amed

I don't try to fit in anymore. I have always felt a little different from people around me. A bit shorter (OK, a lot shorter), not so good at ice hockey like every other Canadian kid (but not really that interested in playing either), and... View Details

03 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

marketing, leadership, negotiation, operations, strategy, and more. In the second year, a student may focus on a particular area to deepen their knowledge of that space. Students can help complete short-term projects Not sure how an MBA View Details

Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship

10 Nov 2022
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Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek

Photo courtesy Ernesta Peloton founder and former CEO John Foley (MBA 2001) is moving from home fitness to home decor. A recent press release announced that Foley and two of his Peloton cofounders are launching Ernesta, a... View Details

Keywords: Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Retail Trade

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 20 Sep 2016
Webinars: Career

Become an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job

What if there was a way to pair the stability of a day job with the excitement and upside of entrepreneurship? Using proven strategies and a range of case studies, author and serial "10% Entrepreneur" Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA 2004) will explain how you can integrate... View Details

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

and go to Harvard.'" And that's what she did, working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it was a very good View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Protecting Data at HBS | Information Technology

High Risk Confidential Information DSL 5: Information which could be life threatening. Data Classification Examples Harvard maintains two pages for Data Classification documents with examples of how to consider your data. Administrative Examples Examples of how... View Details

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