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26 Mar 2024

SVMP Webinar

This webinar will give college students the opportunity to learn more about the Summer Venture in Management Program and hear from former participants currently at HBS. SVMP is a residential educational program for View Details

09 Aug 2023

2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session

Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Come learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a deferred admission process for... View Details

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

finance piece was completely missing," says Gupta. "So for two years, I went to his office and I worked on our personal portfolios." As she pursued finance in college and as a profession in India, Gupta realized that inexperience in... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Courses & Case Studies Case Studies Middlebury College: Energy2028 (320029) by Brian Trelstad , Michael Norris and John McKinley APRIL 2020 (REVISED MAY 2021) Not all social change happens with new organizations. Middlebury College is one... View Details

Portrait Project

Soley Olafsson

member who missed my college graduation as they attended treatment programs for substance abuse. I spent many nights sleeping on a hospital bench, as my significant other was getting treatment for leukemia. Not all of it was forced upon... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career explores several important trends from our analysis: Few programs strive for college and employment. Though organizations in the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

I’m a co-president of the WSA. I am originally from Beijing, and I moved to the US for college and work. Growing up I have been constantly shocked (and frankly frustrated) by a lack of female role models for me and was surprised by the... View Details

03 May 2024
Blog Post

From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) is an educational program designed to increase opportunity in business education for high-potential college students making an impact in their school or community. We sat down with Erica... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Donald J. Chiofaro

future,' it's clear to me that's the way things will turn out." But Chiofaro's career path hasn't always seemed so certain. After graduating in 1968 from Harvard College (where, as a bone-crunching linebacker, he captained the football... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

education. In turn, as a college graduate who became a federal government employee and a consultant in Washington, Checchi's father set an example that helped pave the way for young Al to win a private school scholarship, which led to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Real-Time Data and Machine Learning, that puts many of these principles into practice. That paper, coauthored with Xiaojia Guo and Bert De Reyck of the University College London School of Management, details a project with Heathrow... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Dillon House | About

aspirations to HBS, creating a dynamic learning community. About the Name The construction of Dillon House was made possible through a gift from Clarence Dillon (1882-1979), a 1905 Harvard College graduate, self-made millionaire,... View Details

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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 44. White, p. 517. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Employment Digital Accessibility View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Theory of Salesforce Compensation Plans" (with A. K. Basu, V. Srinivasan, and Richard Staelin, Marketing Science , fall 1985). Rajiv Lal : Winner of the TIMS College of Marketing Award for the Best Article in Management Science and... View Details

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

infrastructure. . . ." Yali Wei is more succinct: "The world is becoming flat only to Americans. How it will play out for America is completely up to Americans." In this regard, Nari Kannan offers a suggestion: "College costs need to be subsidized... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

Americans launch careers in the next 10 years by “cultivating a comprehensive system that focuses on skills first and enables greater opportunities for earned success.” The hope is that this approach will lift up high-potential Black Americans who lack View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

admitting that balancing her career and family takes work. Although Harris is brimming with confidence, she is not one to brag. Her life’s remarkable trajectory—including being the subject of an HBS case study and authoring two best-selling books—sometimes surprises... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Global Immersion, and has taught the Entrepreneurial Manager, in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program. Along with MBA courses, he has taught in various Executive Education programs. In addition, Vikram is a visiting faculty member of Schwarzman View Details

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