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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 17 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
2+2 Students Discuss the Value of an MBA
years (maximum of four years) working in a professional position in the public, private, or nonprofit sector. We encourage students from STEM and humanities disciplines to apply, but the 2+2 Program attracts... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks
About the 2+2 ProgramThe 2+2 Program is a deferred admission process for current students, either in college or full-time master’s programs. Upon graduation, admitted 2+2 students spend a minimum of two years (maximum of View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
As a college student you’re probably thinking about your future, what career path might interest you, whether an MBA might be worthwhile to pursue. For most top MBA programs you’re going to need some work experience before coming to... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
other environments where you present and defend your ideas daily in front of 90 people. How long was your deferral (2, 3, or 4 years)? My deferral was 2 years. I considered deferring longer, but I felt like I was at a natural point in my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Brisbane, Australia. The building was four times larger than she needed for classrooms and a serious stretch for her balance sheet. “I was scared to death,” Russo says, looking back on the experience. It was a risk she didn’t need to... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Jefferson’s résumé confirms that if he’d opted to remain in the private sector, he would be making some serious money based on his leadership skills alone. Case in point: A West Point graduate and Green Beret, Jefferson was on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
and poor on the other. He noted, for example, that “India is rich because of its native entrepreneurial talent. It is poor because many policy and procedural hurdles stand in the way of its entrepreneurs.” But he remained optimistic about the future. View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
School, and the Harvard University Center on the Environment, making important contributions. In April, after four years of research, the Program released “Envision,” a rating system for major government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
profound panic could change the attitudes and politics that caused this mess. And while things are bad, they are a far cry from the unemployment and despair of the Great Depression. As evidence, let me point to the question I get most... View Details
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Gerald Chertavian
10,000 young people have participated in the one-year training program, and 85 percent of graduates are working or in school full time within four months of graduation. Chertavian, who didn’t take a salary for six years, says that Year Up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
women not wanting to be beaten up, opportunity for their kids” (USA Today, September 27, 2004). Democracy and transparency are not always transferable because of cultural and historical factors, Wolfensohn asserted, but they are “probably not the only system that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
dropped into the plot of Breaking Bad, might ask himself what he should do. Walter White is not an aberration: Most people facing ethical dilemmas reflexively ask just that, according to a new paper coauthored by Ting Zhang, a doctoral student in the Organizational... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
treasury, asked Glauber to serve as under secretary for finance, a post he held for four years. In 1992, with a newfound interest in public policy, Glauber returned to Harvard as an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School (1992–2000),... View Details
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Roy Ben-Dor
business, Roy says, "Very few have great programs in both. And Harvard's scale helps me find people with similar interests. In the Business school, for example, it's like having ninety teachers – you get every different View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
province into the academic arena to benefit the Humanitarian Leadership Program (see sidebar). The enormity of the December 26 disaster took weeks to fully gauge, but it was clear that Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
Thomas C. du Pont
duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial