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- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
that brought in HBS faculty and the many other high-caliber speakers. “I really like how inclusive it was.” Initial feedback from the summit has been extremely positive and the organizers have hinted that the event is likely to be offered... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
sales annually. “Two hundred families are employed and benefitting from his enterprise,” says Bhargava. The best part of the program, says Bhargava, and what keeps him going, is the feedback from I Create alumni and their families. “The participants have been View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio Bertarelli had been diagnosed with... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
accounting, and IT. “I’m the human face that goes along with the UNICEF name,” Van Gerpen explains. “A lot of it is making people aware of what the agency does and identifying opportunities for support. It’s a constant push.” Visits to the field are less frequent, but... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
high-throughput genome engineering capabilities[v] that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a worsening climate outlook, we’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
pounds of sweet corn that would have been left in the fields to be tilled under. There is a huge opportunity for innovation and creativity in this work, which is part of what makes it extremely fun." In 2013, Zeaske estimates that Second... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
The August 2016 cover of Consumer Reports featured a striking quote by a 32-year-old nurse with $152,000 in student loans: “I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” While obviously an extreme case, her plight offered merely the... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
success of Google, social networking sites such as Facebook have been trying an advertising-based business model. However, studies show that the click-through rate of ads on social networking sites is extremely low—simply because people... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
wherever it is rather than stick too closely to just one game plan. "In my group's business judgment, it is extremely difficult in Europe to take the view of the stock picker," said Sarkis. "You can't say, 'I'd love to do... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
women hope it will draw more attention to the problems that women face in the workplace. “I invested in it also as a passion project, because I’m extremely focused on diversity and inclusion in my professional life,” says Mandelli. “For... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
countries. There is a popular intuition that these countries are extremely risky and, consequently, capital budgeting practices reflect this notion by requiring extremely high rates of return on activities... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
curated life. Growing up in a military base, extremely safe, extremely secure, you knew pretty much all your neighbors. Run around town and be out at night, playing around at 9, 10 PM—got in trouble a few... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
business." "The statistics are correct," said Raj Kapoor (HBS MBA '96), managing director at Mayfield, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. "It's an extremely hit-driven business that's becoming more... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
educational programs, intellectual ambition for widespread impact, internationalization for global understanding, inclusion to enhance culture and community, and integration with Harvard University. “Alumni and close friends of the School were View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
progressed along their path to power. Discovering common attributes that made these influential business leaders possible to build successful and sustainable companies in a very adverse and unfriendly context is an extremely necessary... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
performance pay in a way that properly aligns incentives. "Even for groups that you expect would not be influenced by incentives, they are extremely influenced by incentives," says Parsons, "and different parties within an... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
parking spots.” Getting fuel from earth into space is extremely costly: All costs considered, fuel in space costs more than pure gold on earth, says Landon. “Each satellite operator pays up to $50 million per ton for that fuel. That’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley