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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
all-inclusive quality of trade catalogs, trade cards offered a more intimate presentation with which companies could announce their line of business and products. Produced in a variety of shapes and sizes, trade cards generally measured 2... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Hart also serves as faculty director of the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 initiative at HBS that was created to encourage the inclusion of more female protagonists in business cases. She is faculty coordinator of the Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less... View Details
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
confusion. “Consider Sara,” says Lauren Murphy, Director of Career and Professional Development at HBS. “Sara” is not a real student, but a hypothetical illustration of a real phenomenon Murphy has frequently witnessed. “She’s been interviewing with a company and has... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
of snowmobiles, motorcycles, and all-terrain vehicles, until 2008, when he stepped down to consider options such as working with nonprofits or teaching at MIT. But Abound Solar, a manufacturer of solar modules based in Colorado, made him an View Details
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
environment. My responsibilities spanned two main areas: supporting fund strategy by conducting deep dives into new markets and verticals that might offer promising investment opportunities, and assessing the viability of opportunities... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
where she excelled at English and law, Zhang went to work as an assistant and interpreter at the regional railway. She so impressed a visiting Thai bank president after interpreting for him that he offered to pay her way through HBS if... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
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Funa Maduka
For many ambitious college graduates, an offer from Goldman Sachs would be a dream come true. But for Funa Maduka, who felt drawn to "alleviating life's inequalities," the opportunity also represented "many sleepless... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
offered to students in the summer between their first and se... Elevating Volunteer Service: SE Summer Fellow Elan Kogutt (MBA/MPP 2024) Elan Kogutt 29 Aug 2023 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
direction for the future at the moment,” says Tippett, pointing to pioneering new initiatives like Major League Baseball’s Statcast (above), which offers statistical insights into every play—from the launch... View Details
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Teresa Danso-Danquah Archives | Social Enterprise
Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and se... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck
guiding HBX's offerings were established early on," notes Dean Nitin Nohria. "HBX should offer a differentiated product. It should complement rather than compete with current programs and Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
valedictorian. "Being a student body leader during such a controversial time proved to be most rewarding," says the polished and gracious Safin, who speaks English with the barest trace of an accent. "I was able to take the initiative to... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
could come even before any formal conversation begins. “When you are walking down the hall, the interview is already under way,” he notes. “That initial handshake, eye contact, and assessment of your energy, enthusiasm, and confidence... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
not sufficient to assign every student to a school. Annually, while about 17,000 students would receive initial offers from multiple schools, about 50,000 received a single View Details