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04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

enough." Those at the business level have usually gone to college in the U.S., Britain, or Australia. Speaking English is a status symbol. Perhaps surprisingly, Western women sometimes have an advantage doing business in some Islamic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

other content into the HBS curriculum. I am interested in how disability is perceived in the workplace and wish to create better awareness around the unseen burdens that employees with disabilities must navigate. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in View Details

12 May 2023
News

Alabama's Yella Fella

he took inspiration from an HBS case about Frank Perdue's efforts to brand chicken with the tagline, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken." From the 1980s and 1990s, Rane sponsored NCAA football teams and hired college coaches... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

College Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering Graduate School Mid-Career Professionals Prepare for your next opportunity by learning how to apply basic statistics to real business problems. Meet Arjun, an HBS Online participant... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024) Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD) Social Enterprise Track Winner Empowering Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences. Pando Claire Wu (MBA 2023) Andrew Setiawan Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd... View Details

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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Georgia State University, Arkansas AM&N (now University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), and North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University). He became the third Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Administration at... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

College as well as Harvard Law and HBS), her sole plan was to pass the bar exam and get a job. A friend introduced her to the deputy commissioner of counterterrorism at the NYPD, and she soon found herself working for the department as a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

business owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply tools and frameworks to... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

MIT), Jean-Charles Rochet (IDEI, Toulouse), and David Evans (NERA, now LECG and University College London). It is indeed a very new area: The first two or three papers on this topic were written in 2002-2003, and I was lucky enough to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

start a company after receiving funding from the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship, a program designed to support entrepreneurs at the pre-idea stage. Alongside two former colleagues, I co-founded an on-campus rewards platform for View Details

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

has more a feel of family. "In the United States, if you don't show up at work, what happens? You get fired," says Shelman. "In China, where many of the company's 250,000 employees are college students working their first... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States

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01 Jun 2023
News

Pet Project

Business Administration; Peter O. Crisp Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and faculty co-chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard MS/MBA Program, and the Harvard College Technology Fellows Program. He is the author of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast far from... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

able to exploit their customers in their times of need. Better regulation of small consumer lenders in the 1920s both opened access to credit and reduced borrowers’ vulnerability. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College... View Details

17 Oct 2023

First-Gen Forward: Student Journeys and Reflections

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting first generation college students who are currently attending Harvard Business School (HBS). Hear about their different paths to HBS, their HBS experience, and what they plan to... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Allison Hughes

Glamour magazine's "Top Ten College Women" in 1994, was accepted at HBS directly from college. Rather than entering right away (which would have made her a classmate of her Baker Scholar sister, Elizabeth [MBA '96]), she first joined... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

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Loeb House | About

(1902-1996) and his son, the Honorable John L. Loeb Jr. (MBA 1954). The senior Loeb was an investment banker, a philanthropist, and one of the most loyal and active alumni in Harvard University’s history. A 1924 Harvard College graduate,... View Details

26 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of... View Details

05 Dec 2023

HBS Global Voices: International Student Insights

Join us for a virtual session designed for current international college students as we discuss the opportunities and experiences awaiting you at Harvard Business School. The event will include a panel of current students and recent... View Details

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