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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

International Biogen Idec BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. bioMerieux, Inc. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Blue Shield of California Boehringer Laboratories Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Medical Center Boston MedTech Advisors... View Details

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates Productivity rose almost six-fold in the United States during the era of railroad expansion.... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

forms of leverage does the CEO possess? How do CEOs manage the relentless demands of the job alongside commitments to their families and personal interests? What makes CEOs more or less effective? Students will participate in case... View Details

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Brandon Lovell

internship – in which Brandon fulfilled IT service functions – proved to be a powerful step forward. But when Brandon's ambitions grew beyond "fixing computers to wanting to be a management consultant,... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2025 Western... View Details

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

continuity across functions and country locations. In the meantime, tensions arise among the newly combined members of her business unit, as some fear being sidelined or losing their autonomy. Molinas wonders whether her team's leadership... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

business journals, Harvard Business Review continued to capitalize on the increasing appetite for digital content on the key themes of the day. The exploration of topics such as promoting racial equity in the workplace, managing during... View Details

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

10 Sep 2020
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The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

30 May 2007
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Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Business; and Monica Higgins, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders across an Industry; and Michael Porter coauthored Redefining Health Care. By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry. —Richard Hamermesh The intense interest in health care from a business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

11 Feb 2020
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10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

is superior, but because the end-to-end product is better. Focusing on serving your customers’ end users should be baked into the team’s DNA. In most cases, you are building more than the ML product, so collaboration and coordination is required across View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

20 May 2022
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Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

across the nation, to create a cohort. Then over the spring give them mentorship, workshops, and resources they need to create a functioning company. The dream is that by the end of the program, the teams we make are able to turn to the... View Details

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities and placing potential British investors in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

10 Sep 2001
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Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to launch an innovation initiative... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Avenue from the HBS campus in 2021, for the first time in almost a century, HBS has gone from being "across the river" to experiencing thousands of Harvard students, faculty, and staff crossing its campus. Looking out over the next... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

helped a lot. It’s one of the reasons Aphrodite supports 50 currencies now. Daniel Dietzel CEO of Aphrodite at Aphrodite Gain the skills and knowledge needed to grow your business internationally and more effectively manage global teams.... View Details

16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

technology is also able to report—in real time—how the ads performed. "Historically, data provided to advertisers in the offline world was published in monthly or quarterly reports," says Donald J. Law (MBA '96), a former advertising account View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

18 Nov 2013
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Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

functioning of the team. Together with Leigh Plunkett Tost of the University of Michigan and Richard P. Larrick of Duke University, Gino explores this question in When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Ellen Mahoney | About

Ellen Mahoney Bio Ellen Mahoney is the Chief Human Resources Officer of Harvard Business School. She is responsible for managing all aspects of the School’s human resources function for the over 1,600... View Details

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Demonstration Policy | About

speak to the USRR’s application. Principles The USRR begins by noting, The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research, and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a... View Details

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