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Career Coach

Robert Kimmel

of a startup, he also has experience in entrepreneurship and an interest in coaching students considering starting their own businesses. In addition to these industries, Robert enjoys helping students navigate through work-life balance issues, including how to pursue... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Private Equity; Financial Services (All)

15 Dec 2020
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MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

decision maker. Read More 4 Things to Know About the MS/MBA Biotech “I was initially attracted to Harvard’s MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program because of the emphasis on ethical decision making, and... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Scott P. Mason Remembered

work of the School's Global Financial System (GFS) study. A multiyear research project involving a number of HBS faculty and some fifteen financial institutions from around the world, the GFS project ranges... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

hardships of working in a manufacturing factory. I was heavily influenced by my father’s eagerness to relate my school textbook science lessons to examples from his factory. An impact of this practical approach to learning was my later... View Details

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Brittany Williams

Every summer from 7th grade through her senior year in high school, Brittany Williams went to science camp. “I was the kid who went to the NASA space camp—for fun!” Brittany enrolled at the University of Virginia to study aerospace... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

10 Aug 2021
News

Moving Education Within Reach

supporting scores of students in his native Malaysia both academically and financially—and in many cases through graduate school. The project started in 1996, in the midst of Ramalingam’s career in manufacturing and consulting, when a... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2008
News

There’s a New Class in Town

follow, at 119 students. Educational backgrounds comprised three general categories: humanities (42 percent); engineering and natural sciences (32 percent); and business administration (23 percent), with the remaining 3 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2021
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An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Try as she might, Toyin Shodiya (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022) was just not interested in biology. As a high school student living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., her lack of interest in the subject did not go unnoticed by her AP... View Details

08 Mar 2019
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Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

In honor of International Women's Day, the Women's Student Association set out to reclaim the word 'feminism'. They reached out to the HBS community to find out what the word means to its members. The result is a portrait project... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

direction is largely determined by the needs of its scientists and by the direction of the life sciences themselves. "Management's role therefore tends to be more of a resource provider," he says. Even so,... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Mar 2004
News

Harvard’s Future in Allston

campus with cutting-edge science and technology facilities, campuses for the graduate schools of public health and education, and student housing. Ways the new campus can contribute to a vibrant community, with cultural attractions,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Juan Pablo Moncayo

"I've always been a left-brain, right-brain person," Juan Pablo "JP" Moncayo says of his parallel interests in music (trombone and voice) versus science and politics. When he left his home town of Quito, Ecuador for... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

22 Sep 2016
News

Words and Pictures

2003), an initial champion of the project who convinced Deifell to return to campus to extend the project beyond its first year. “It was such an inspirational idea—an opportunity for people to talk about... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 May 2020
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A PRIDE Farewell

Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students, faculty, and staff. In partnership with HBS Operations, advised on a project to re-designate single use restrooms across campus as ‘All Gender’ (the first of which is updated in the student... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

in various incarnations, a fixture of the HBS curriculum for decades and is regarded as the foundation of the School's extensive entrepreneurial management program. In 1948, Mace earned his doctor of commercial science (DCS) degree from... View Details

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Terrance McGuire

the onerous regulatory processes to the marketplace. The ability to pivot, he suggested, is far easier on the technology side. “If it doesn’t work, kill it, move on to the next idea,” he said. “On the life View Details

02 Jun 2021
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Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals

involve at least one additional stakeholder—but there’s a few years of life and many questions to accumulate before deciding. The Sabbatical Project Blog Series This article is part of a series on... View Details

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Litsa Kapsalis | MBA

Litsa Kapsalis Bioengineering (AB/SM) Pforzheimer 2024 Cohort 6 The rapid development of revolutionary breakthroughs in the translational life sciences and biotechnology promise to transform healthcare... View Details

21 Dec 2021
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