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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

complete list of databases available to the Harvard Community via WRDS. See WRDS Fast Answers for more information. Which databases can I use in person at Baker Library? Bloomberg Current and historical financial... View Details

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Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting

Nashville-based startup focused on facilitating value-based care for rural Medicare populations. Main Street Health works to bridge the gap in health care access for rural communities by establishing partnerships that help Medicare... View Details

Platform for Dialogue

across specializations and to build relationships with inspiring MBA students from all over the world. While the School’s fostering of big ideas challenged me to learn and develop new vocabularies, the vibrant community of scholars... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

with these messages? When I graduated from college, I went to live in a Mexican-American barrio for two years in southern New Mexico. An intern in the National Teacher Corps, I taught sixth grade and joined community projects to help... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present

Africa Health Holdings which works to improve the health care system in West and East Africa and has 38 facilities, 52 community outreach programs, and serves more than 500,000 patients; chairman of Golden Palm Investments, an impact... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

Business Statesman of the Year Dinner, which Mott describes as “the one we want the walls busted out for.” The event honors a member of the business community who “not only personifies success and ethics in business, but who also gives... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

Cohen is considering a career transition into health care. "I'd like to apply my skills in marketing and communications to health and medical services. In particular, the e-health world is exploding with incredible opportunity." This... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Dec 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

community development, and other conservation efforts in Africa, South Asia, and South America. “The conduit by which we do all of that is exposing guests to experiences that bring to life the wonder of the land, wildlife, and people,”... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal

encouraging others to “never regret your own personal journey.” Echoing Parry’s message, Dean Kim B. Clark noted that the strength of the HBS community is made most evident “in times of challenge.” Clark, a grandfather of seven, then drew... View Details

Keywords: HBS; MBA; Fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer

humor and energy for action. “After my accident,” she says, “I got notes from people in the disability community saying, ‘Heard about your accident — great news for us!' I think what they were saying was, ‘With the help of this national... View Details

17 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Turning Doubt into Drive: Embracing Entrepreneurship with Kait Stephens (MBA 2020)

the pandemic and 2020 brought unique challenges, the support we received from the HBS community was critical to our success. My co-founder and I were building a business in a chaotic world—the accelerator and investment firm Techstars had... View Details

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

government institutional development influences the extent to which CSR communications are symbolically decoupled from substantive CSR activities. Our database includes all CSR reports issued by the approximately 1,600 publicly listed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training services were up over 400... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 May 2021
Blog Post

The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute

moved to NYC for Austin’s new role with a private equity firm. As we started to consider going back to school and leaving the comforts of our new life in the city, we knew finding a community and program committed to making our time as a... View Details

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2.15 Field Based Learning/ Independent Projects | MBA

2.15 Field Based Learning/ Independent Projects 2.0 Academic Information and Policies HBS students may have the opportunity to experience faculty-supervised, field-based learning during their MBA Program. The following policies apply to all members of the HBS View Details

October 2014
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Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer

For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details

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10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and... View Details