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01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business School, consider what it takes to land a job as a consultant at... View Details

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

Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women In Investing Club. After graduation she will be joining Amazon as a senior technical product manager in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she completed her internship last summer. What do you remember... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

researcher and consultant” identified as Cambridge Analytica used a quiz app on the platform to access personal information of approximately 300,000 Facebook users and, by extension, 49.7 million of their “friends.” The consultant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

fellow HBS alum. Previously, Gabby worked in management consulting at Deloitte. She received her BBA at Emory University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. You Might Want to Read 19 May 2025... View Details

September 2022
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HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp

Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands

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18 Apr 2016
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Meet the HBS Family Business Club

by a multiple of three. We believe that students who have worked with or for family businesses bring in a unique perspective of how such businesses operate and allow other students to think from the perspective of owners. We value Several professors at HBS are world... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

the global value chain, and what more might we expect? Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia: In 2012, a survey by the World Economic Forum and [the consulting firm] Accenture, devoted to assess the risk of a disruption in the global supply chain,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

Unix file management commands, and a long list of cloud providers are supported . You can use rclone to transfer and synchronize files between HBSGrid storage and your HBS Microsoft OneDrive storage , or any other supported cloud storage... View Details

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system,... View Details

22 Mar 2023
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

that I was never going to put into practice. Nonetheless, I figured I would at least use the skills I gained in school to find a different solution to Nigeria’s energy issues. Hence, I decided to explore a career in management View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

designed an innovative field-study course called Consulting and Management Practice. The course provided student teams with intensive faculty coaching on projects with actual clients. Turner cites the course... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

Gerald Zaltman, an emeritus professor at Harvard Business School, and Lindsay Zaltman, managing director of Olson Zaltman Associates, a research and consulting firm, believe that deep insights from consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

the largest corporate donors to principal candidates in closely watched congressional races manage earnings downwards in the two quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election. We find no evidence of such downwards earnings View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - The year in Review

society. Ray Dalio MBA 1973 Founder, Co-CIO & Chairman, Bridgewater Associates H. Naylor Fitzhugh MBA 1933 (posthumous award) Mezuo Nwuneli MBA 2003 Cofounder & Managing Partner, Sahel Capital Agribusiness View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

plans for visiting startups over break via West Trek, NYC trek, and other locations Build your knowledge of the trends in different startup industries: Attend Tech , CAML , and E-ship club speaker series and conferences. Research at Baker Library (Research View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

the factory floor," she recalls, "I felt like I was back at the family dinner table." Her professional DNA includes a consulting role at McKinsey & Company, a stint at General Foods, and considerable venture capital experience. Gordon... View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

do in your career to become a purpose-driven leader Who Will Benefit Purpose-Driven Professionals CSR and Consulting Professionals Leaders and Entrepreneurs Learn how businesses can effect change, and how you can influence others using a... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization, making the equity stakes of earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Jun 2024
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The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

I. She will join Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines, as a corporate strategy manager, where she’ll be charged with active portfolio management across its business units and investments. During your EC year, what... View Details

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