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28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

(MBA 2023) shared his experience: “I joined the MIINT competition to learn how I could capitalize on my background as an investment professional to drive impact in emerging markets. The experience enabled me to gauge societal and... View Details

05 Dec 2023

Life at HBS Chat with the Brazilian-Portuguese Cultural Club

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear directly from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Brazilian-Portuguese Cultural Club (BPCC) who will share their backgrounds and... View Details

18 Oct 2023

Life at HBS Chat with the Central & Eastern European Club

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear directly from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Central & Eastern European Club who will share their backgrounds and how they... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

international development and microfinance. Today, as cofounder of pathZERO Energy, she’s leading an effort to help businesses transition to cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy solutions through improved efficiency, better data, and optimized pricing. Here, she... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

items at the end. There will be less informal communication directly after the meeting to clarify so make next steps clear. Participating in Meetings: Log into meetings a few minutes in advance, just as you would arrive to a meeting in person. Remember to mute when not... View Details

2007
Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career

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08 Mar 2022
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Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

realization that our lived experiences play a huge role in the classroom discussion. In a traditional classroom you are expected to have a specific answer, but that’s not what the professor is looking for here. With the information we are given and the diverse View Details

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Jay Bhandari

to campus. A year in, I've found the range of personalities and backgrounds here to be more expansive than I had anticipated. The community feels far more close-knit than the size of the student body would suggest. View Details

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Brandon Tieu

case method does a standout job of producing the laundry list of pros and cons inherent in different business decisions, engaging with peers from diverse backgrounds challenges us to over-weigh or under-weigh these different factors to... View Details

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Phillip Jones

year at HBS. “I’m impressed,” he says. “To learn among ninety-four different individuals with a wide range of backgrounds – every day I learn from them in different ways, especially outside the classroom when we meet one-on-one. These... View Details

19 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

United States, but it still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion for contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing to me.” Mizuho has three objectives for... View Details

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

in the United States, but it still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion to contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing to me.” Mizuho has three... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

while their core platform continues to serve the nation and globally, with over 10,000 unique visitors a month. What background do Climate Circle founders have? As you can begin to see from the founders I’ve regaled you with, Climate... View Details

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

agriculture, and Lydia had a background in the food industry. “It seemed a good match,” he says. “And if you do it right, harvesting maple sap is a totally sustainable agricultural practice.” Good Timing and Good Chemistry Doing it right... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

05 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

Alessia Vettese is a second-year MBA student with a background in consulting and social impact. Alessia enjoys discovering innovative skincare products and hopes to pursue a career at the intersection of business and beauty. After a... View Details

29 Aug 2018
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What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

strong culture and dedicated customer base helped it avoid larger declines. Its customers organized rallies attended by as many as 50,000 Harley owners, whose average age had risen into the 50s and whose backgrounds contradicted the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and integrating them into the organization Consider offering an intro session to discuss with the associate the culture of the organization, best-practices in working with colleagues and clients, and (if applicable) background on country... View Details

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Tom Adeyemi

diverse perspectives in your section contributed to your understanding of business concepts, leadership, and/or problem solving? The varied backgrounds of my section mates have contributed immensely to my learning during case discussions.... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

so many students from different cultures and backgrounds and unites us around one common interest – shoes! We talk about the sneakers we’re trying to grab, the ones we missed out on, and everything else happening in the sneaker industry.... View Details

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