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26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

auction design or market design and stuff like that, the fact that I wasn’t just a completely nerdy academic I also had some connection by having gone to a business school. And, I can sort of talk to businessmen in their language if I... View Details

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

environments that make you uncomfortable. Like being in a foreign country where you don't speak the language and you have to learn how to cope. Being in a new company, being in a new situation, that's where you learn, that's where you... View Details

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

crisis, but they don’t build homes, and a bankrupt government doesn’t build new infrastructure, he says. The outlook changed dramatically with the July elections. By speaking the language of business, showing up on day one with a plan,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

now 19 strong and thriving in this wonderful country. Berry Versfeld (MBA 1973) President, Travelong of Summit The language of loyalty After graduating in 1969, I joined Baxter Laboratories (now Baxter International) as assistant to the... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

up the child of immigrants with language school on weekends, or it meant foreign tourist, in town for a few years for a job or degree. As someone who was raised in Hong Kong, but has enjoyed over ten years in the US, where did I belong?... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

he had imagined. He calls Babban Gona—which means "great farm" in the Hausa language of northern Nigeria—an agricultural franchise model, and it works much like a fast-food franchise: Babban Gona trains farmers-franchisees and offers them... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Instagram Takeover Policy | About

that the account is public-facing, which means a wide range of people, of all ages, locations, and backgrounds are able to access the content you produce. Be yourself, but always be appropriate and avoid the use of vulgar language or... View Details

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

methodology based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis to illustrate that such data can be used to generate insight about the relationship between a firm’s past financial performance and the language and tone of speeches by the firm’s... View Details

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Program Policies - HBS Online

Online from another language to English, please allow the Accommodations team an additional 5 business days to complete the translation process before the Accommodations team can review the accommodations request. Please also remove any... View Details

25 May 2023
Blog Post

Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

Descriptions To create a welcoming and inclusive environment in the early stages of your hiring process, it is critical to use inclusive language that invites candidates in. Educate team members who are writing job descriptions about... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Affinity Groups | Employment

including knitting and book groups, non-English language discussion groups, and outings to museums and recreational sites. They support a number of special interest groups that employees can take part in. Office for Diversity, Inclusion &... View Details

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

taken up by the population overall. So I think there's a lot we can learn about metaphors and visual language and how we can help people understand a crisis through those tools. That's exactly the same thing that we're trying to do with... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

White House Office of Management and Budget. Shirish Nimgaonkar MBA ’02, Harvard University; MS, Industrial Engineering, Stanford University; BS, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay Shirish is the co-founder of SquelchAI (Natural View Details

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

Program, which is such an anachronism now and we would all riot before we would do something like that, I guess, I just thought it was tremendously helpful. It was helpful in giving me the language of business so that I could talk... View Details

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Michael R. Bloomberg

after starting Bloomberg LP, Merrill Lynch purchased 20 terminals and became our first customer.”NEVER STOP LEARNING. “The most powerful word in the English language is “Why.” There is nothing so powerful as an open, inquiring mind.... View Details

13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

and attach a more business-oriented perspective to the challenge: from added customer value to pricing, marketing, and so on. It's always a shame to see brilliant organizations where the technology team and the business team don’t speak the same View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

high-profile California. To the consternation of the trial bar, his advocacy group placed three initiatives (ultimately unsuccessful) on the state's March 1996 ballot. On the smoking front, Tobias, a Slavic languages and literatures major... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did not speak English, including the teacher whose class he visited. Yet she... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how advertising and society have... View Details

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