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28 Mar 2023
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Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

scary, but it was also incredibly fun—something that I attributed largely to the case method (and Section I!). It’s exciting to see where the class discussion will go, and witness section mates learning from each other. The case method is... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

helped me develop a business intuition to make decisions with limited information and under time pressure. I am now more detail-oriented and I have become a better listener. Also, discussions in class have forced me to think faster and to... View Details

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Commencement 2020 Address | About

Commencement 2020 Address Play Video duration: 13:29 As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, May 28, 2020 Class of 2020, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: In the nearly 400-year history of Harvard, this... View Details

25 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

extremely impressed that the emphasis was not so much on teaching us how to calculate days receivable or WACC figures precisely right, but on how to use practical interpretations of business concepts in our lives as leaders in whichever sector we choose. Not only View Details

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and social enterprise. He also oversaw a major... View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," he says. When Ray Gilmartin joined Merck in June 1994 as president and CEO (he became chairman several... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

the eighth grade, and played football. Another classmate, Rich Eustis, later became an Emmy-winning television writer; Eustis confessed to TV Guide that he based the character of Eric Mardian — the leather-jacketed genius in the ABC series Head of the View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

reported crimes against another disadvantaged social class in India: the Scheduled Castes. The SCs encompass members of the lowest tiers of the Hindu caste system that dominated India's View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Chao Zeng

case, I become a different person with multiple responses to complex situations. Second, it’s the interaction with people – as section representative, as a class member, or as a member of a FIELD team. By working with people from diverse... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Financial Services

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

competitive? What are the legal, ethical and social implications of the choices you make? We will use theory and evidence from economics, law, and psychology to understand what your best strategy is, and to anticipate how the labor market... View Details

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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

class summary, 1937-1938. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Five students enrolled in the Radcliffe certificate program... View Details

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Rawiah Abdallah

even before I graduated." A campus presentation introduced her to the school, the case method, and the Social Enterprise Initiative, which especially impressed her. "My friends at NGOs felt they weren't getting much professional... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

McGee (MBA 1979) supervised the 12 teams deployed in the city, one of which worked with the local 13-store bakery chain, Benjamin. In the fall, the members of this team—Adam Demuyakor, Adam Gunter, Felix Jiang, Sasha Niemeyer, Sinem Ormeci, and Megan Wu, all View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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Ann Lucena

I'm learning just as much from other students," Ann says. "Every day in class someone will say something that makes me stop and think. Many times the comments that make me pause are the most unexpected ones; the ideas in direct... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Blog Post

6 Discoveries I Made About HBS

reach out and advocate for yourself. 3. It’s okay to say no The people from my class (2015) who seem happiest with their time at HBS are the ones who were deliberate about prioritizing what was important to them and occasionally saying... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

what’s out there to avoid any unpleasant surprises.” Besides similarity of name, search results incorporate information on industry sectors and trademark classes. “What trademark is about is the likelihood of confusion, so the system focuses on key View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

profitability,” in placing particular emphasis on how ventures scale by achieving not just product-market fit, but profit -market fit. Classes cover a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled businesses, including e-commerce, ed-tech, SaaS,... View Details

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Research Resources | Baker Library

photographs documenting HBS student culture, including students on campus, academic activities like studying and classroom learning, and social and recreational sporting events. Photographs of student clubs and View Details

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in Zambia, we design a field... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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