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- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
a year and a half working in supply chain optimization at Pinnacle Foods in New Jersey, Sheil faced a choice – begin her MBA now or pull one more lever of change. “I had the option to either go to HBS or I could do something else for a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
talent, you find great investments. Through that talent is where investment comes in and you can begin to see examples. Microsoft just opened up a development center in Nigeria and Kenya, five years ago that may not have happened. And... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic... View Details
- Profile
Frank Mycroft
For Frank Mycroft, business management really is rocket science. A self-confessed Star Trek fan, Frank fell in love with "the final frontier" early in life and fulfilled his obsession with not one, but two advanced degrees from... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
remember that it took me a while to become comfortable with the case method. As an engineer, I was trained to look for the right answer and to prove it with formulas and theorems. However, in an HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
right choices for themselves and for society.” That can be a tall order. The magnitude and scope of the life sciences revolution (and its potential risks) challenge the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to do—fighting View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and historical reputation in their... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
teaching, is called Authentic Leadership Development. A central idea in that course is that each of us is deeply shaped by the crucible experiences in our lives—those moments of adversity that mark us for ever. I think the same thing is... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
my fitness score for the day. Morrell: So things like that were really—it's more about encouraging myself to be centered and happy when I go to the beach as opposed to grumbly that what heck am I going to do... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are other priorities View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
Jerry R. Green, using game-theory insights, studies the negotiation process within agencies as he looks for ways that business or government can make the right decision for an... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to make long-term-oriented decisions, to put aside the short-term performance pressures and personal career or compensation considerations to do the right thing for the business. With excessive short-term... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Administrator Gina McCarthy, who now serves as the director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, sees some moves in the right... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for masculine displays of prowess and interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. In this case,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint