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06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

platform on his own website. “We discussed how you think about building a business in a world where you depend on your competitors to go to market. That’s something that doesn’t exist in many other business types, but it’s pretty common in the new digital View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54476 Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace By: Gu, Grace, and Feng Zhu Abstract—As an intermediary improves trust between... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched Werk as a View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

home in Weston, MA “I knew that law was great training for logic, but I fell in love with business. I was passionate about starting my own company.” Inspired by her own frustration finding care for her sons and parents, Marcelo built the world’s largest View Details

07 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

given that none of these ventures will work if the clubs can't reach their constituencies. Online Services for Alumni This committee's ambitious goal was to increase dramatically the number of alumni with... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Making Big Data Fashionable

get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual analytics platform that mines... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

centers. The intellectual capital generated by this research is transformed into programs and products offered in a competitive marketplace by Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). The income generated by these twin... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

develop listening, communication, and feedback skills, Moon explained. While the Required Curriculum reflects an institutional philosophy that all first-year students need a common knowledge base, the Elective Curriculum presents students with “an incredible View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

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HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 1 (all in millions of dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30) Revenues 2023 2022 2021 MBA Tuition & Fees $152 $137 $113 Executive Education Tuition 224 174 81 HBS View Details

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Finding Resources Baker Library Historical Collections maintains numerous tools for locating photograph holdings. Detailed finding aids outlining the contents of individual photograph collections are available in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room and View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

24 Apr 2014
News

Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

fight corruption. “These citizen-driven initiatives are raising public awareness as never before and demand that CEOs pay attention,” he says. In Russia, thousands of anonymous contributors identify corrupt government procurement processes through an View Details

January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
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Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper

Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details

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01 Dec 2005
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Back to School

how you position the school in the marketplace or how you help students figure out whether this is the right place for them, it’s problem-solving, and I love that,” she says. Now that she’s found her own niche, Whitney has long-term plans... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services; Educational Services

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019

participant enrollment. Online generated positive net cash flow for the first time, driven by additional market offerings and a growing learner base. Sustaining this growth—as the ways knowledge is created, delivered, and consumed are... View Details

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

professor Tom Eisenmann, who also serves on the board of OneMain.com, one of the nation's ten largest Internet service providers, and on the advisory boards of many Internet start-ups. Eisenmann's definition of the get-big-fast strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Sep 2017
News

The Shape of Things to Come

Image by John Ritter With the rise of the online MBA and part-time programs, how do you make the ongoing case for students investing in two years at HBS? Nitin Nohria: A transformational experience takes time. Most of our students aren’t... View Details

Keywords: HBX; CORe; Educational Services; Educational Services

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