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05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

stress, especially at schools that attract highly driven, highly competitive students. "We've known for a long time that chronically elevated levels of physiologic stress and psychological distress lead to the development of a wide View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

areas of interest further! Career-focused treks usually involve traveling to an industry “hub” such as New York or San Francisco. Over the course of 1-2 days, participants meet with a variety of different companies from the industry and... View Details

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

Clinic The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School offers students the opportunity to practice environmental law through work on a variety of litigation, administrative, legislative, and policy projects. Food Law... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

makes us happier. To begin their study, the researchers asked more than 6,000 people in North America and Europe, who earned a variety of incomes, whether they spent money on time-saving services. On both continents, those who outsourced... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding from a View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

robustness by consistently incorporating technological innovations and by providing a reliable point of reference that helps participants respond to new and uncertain conditions. And they can encourage ecosystem niche creation by offering innovative technologies to a... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

pocketed $475 million. While the number of huge opportunities like the one that Osher exploited may be limited, the lessons he learned over the years and the methods he employed still can be applied in a wide variety of situations and... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

The variety of programs that they fund and contribute to are helped also by EJ investments from the IRA, which they say will make it easier for Bank of America to reach its $1.5 trillion goal.[90] This is an example of some of the major... View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

proportion to their presence in the wider pool of qualified candidates. A fair algorithm may also change the applicants ranked highest, theoretically giving more opportunities for a variety of candidates to make a hiring company’s short... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

complimentary sessions each calendar year. That is an amazing lifetime benefit! How has your MBA experience influenced your career path? My HBS MBA education gave me the opportunity to: Explore many career paths: The case method made it possible for me to learn about a... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

for faculty members or help them pursue a particular avenue of inquiry across regions. More recently, the responsibilities of HBS global outposts have expanded to include helping to facilitate student immersions in a variety of markets... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

from a variety of sources such as the U.S. military, the Office of War Information, and companies using U.S. Steel in their products. Pictures of tanks, planes, ships, aircraft carriers, guns, bombs, shells, and pipelines juxtaposed... View Details

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

Perú’s largest private bank, as I explored my own musicianship by trying a wide variety of different activities (from opera lessons, to a cappella and jazz, or even a brief experience in Peru’s Got Talent), I thought I had found my... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

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

paths are you and your classmates pursuing? JD/MBAs pursue a variety of career paths after graduation in both law and business. The program tends to attract a diverse set of people, so it is not uncommon for graduates to pursue... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

that would afford him greater freedom and control. In order to realize a variety of applications for his new invention, Land would need to produce reams of sheets of his synthetic polarizing material. "Exploring how innovation happens,... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

pharmaceutical giant one day—not creating a company from scratch. But Goble was determined to explore the wide variety of opportunities available to him in his time at HBS, so when he read about a nonprofit life sciences entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Mar 2021
Blog Post

How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition

their resume? HBS alumni have a variety of resources available to help in the process of writing or updating a resume. Ms. Huggett recommends working with a professional, such as an HBS Career Coach or a specialized firm like hers.... View Details

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Space, Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE). For the former, he has written case studies on public education, national health insurance, welfare reform, immigration, and a variety of topics in taxation. For the latter, he has written... View Details

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

learn this past month? Regarding my classmates: 1. There’s a variety of STEM backgrounds I came in expecting everyone to be a software engineer, but fortunately, I was wrong. There’s a mix of different types of engineers, as well as... View Details

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