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25 Mar 2015
News

The Greening of Houston

facing Houston, one of the biggest is our need for talent driven by the growth in the region,” says Gilbane. “Despite the excellent universities here, we can’t produce enough talented workers to fill all the opportunities we have at these... View Details

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

talent to draw from, write the authors of a recent working paper titled Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups. This has important implications, says Shai Bernstein, an associate professor of business View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

according to two new surveys by Paul A. Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Only about 10 percent of companies in this often unpredictable industry have been severely affected.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2000
News

Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

Division of Research from 1953 to 1968, died on March 14. He was 92. Fox joined the HBS faculty in 1949 and served at the School for 25 years. He was the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration from 1955 to 1967, and from... View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

competitions. A decade later, Vaxess has adapted and innovated our business model. COVID-19 showed us that to be prepared for the next global pandemic, we need to make a fundamental paradigm shift in the method of vaccine delivery in two major ways, View Details

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

interconnected global community. So disease threats such as COVID-19 need to be recognized as part of the current work-scape and systematically addressed,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of Business Administration Ashley... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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A Separate Campus - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business Administrators Core... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

University Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Paulson Jr. During his 32 years at Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson rose through the ranks, becoming chairman and CEO in 1999, the year he... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

factories that produce fertilizer, to investors like Masha working directly with farmers, to retail-focused suppliers rebuilding local appetite for food grown in their country. Universal among these agribusiness entrepreneurs is a core... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions... View Details

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Affinity Groups | Employment

Affinity Group LatinXAffinityGroup@groups.hbs.edu Employee Resource Groups, Harvard University The Harvard University Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to promote equal opportunity, awareness, and... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

unionized while others do not? “It turns out there was something that happened in the 1930s that set the rank of unionization in place across states in the United States, and that rank has stayed roughly the same ever since,” says Lauren H. Cohen, the L.E. Simmons... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

distribution, unrestricted current use gifts, and restricted current use gifts—accounted for $292 million, or 27 percent of the School’s total revenues. This matched the proportion of revenue represented by philanthropy in the prior year. By comparison, for Harvard... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Leadership. She has received the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Year in the Executive MBA programs at Fuqua ten times. She received her Bachelor in Business Administration degree and Master in Professional Accounting degree from the... View Details

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

School’s Digital Initiative under the title Sustainability is an Innovation Problem. About the Author Rebecca M. Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

advertising waste and noise." Howe likes to take a big-picture view of business problems, probably because of his training in economics. That process began early — at the family dinner table, he recalls — when his father, a hospital View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

to effect change. When the status quo isn’t working for those without power and privilege, Mendu, a 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow, believes “the more fortunate among us have a deep obligation to disrupt it.” Her HBS mentors included former United States Small... View Details

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