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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
volunteer regularly at patient advocacy and community awareness events. Patients visit our labs and sit in on business meetings. We see the impact of the disease on their lives. The problems we tackle aren’t just science View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
to changing,” he says. The organization’s mission, to elevate the standard of care for families and women, applies equally to its partners and clients but also starts from within. That focus on representation also leads to stronger... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes As a little kid, Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) doesn’t remember thinking much about the differences between himself and his younger brother, Terry. But as he started to get older,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
how research can benefit from cross-University collaboration." While Bazerman thinks that overt bias against individuals or groups is less of a problem than it was a couple of decades ago, "that does not mean we've solved View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
development projects around the globe. The study, by Harvard Law School student Ashwin Kaja and HBS professor Eric Werker, is detailed in the working paper "Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank" [PDF]. Theirs is the first known study to empirically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
securities. "In 2004 and 2005 as these subprime loans started to emerge, it really wasn't a particular problem because of the lag effect, because people who couldn't pay off these mortgages with toxic... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
become more and more of a relevant problem over the past eight years or so.” US politics are heating up ahead of the November presidential election as voters evaluate candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
internship for the summer? I’m obsessed with education-to-employment, meaning the emerging field of models (nonprofit, for-profit, or government) trying to better connect people to good jobs. Pre-HBS, I helped start a nonprofit in this... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
banking. There are three reasons why. First, many of the problems innovators are trying to solve are focused on gaps in banking services, while many of the challenges these innovators face stem from the fact that they are not banks.... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
started reflecting. The first thing I was concerned about, where am I going to find a manager to replace him? This was a difficult department to find just anyone. And then I started wondering, was the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
students spend 15 weeks and $5,000 launching a business. Patrick Petitti (MBA 2014), Rob Biederman (MBA 2014), and their teammates started with some zany ideas—manufacturing knitted nose warmers, for instance—before settling on the model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
and everyone, literally everyone, was asking him to be their tech cofounder to start a business (that's a common thing at HBS too when you're technical) and 2) While at Bridgewater, he had used SharePoint to create something that... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
Have questions about our policies on learning requirements, accommodations, changing your program status (selecting a later course, withdrawals, refunds, deferrals), exceptions standards, or discounts? Start here! Certificate of... View Details
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Lindsay Ullman
Lindsay Ullman, MBA 2015, openly admits that her reasons for coming to HBS "seem clearer after the fact." During stints at Google and Google Ventures, Lindsay came to realize that while she loved being an investor, she wanted to either join a company or View Details
Keywords: Tech
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David Soled
ACL. Shortly after, I had surgery and started recovery. I missed a few days of class, and on my first day back, I experienced a wide range of feelings: extreme pain in my knee, nerves about being back, and angst about the previous missed... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
Davis started considering more flexible work options in 2018, she and Cheney discussed where and how she might be able to work with Prokanga to address the social impact space. “It never occurred to me to work in human capital during... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details