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Recognition for Your HBS Giving According to our records, you have not made a new gift or pledge in recent years (pledge payments not reflected here). Please consider making a gift today using our online giving form . Thank you in advance. Find A Classmate Be found.... View Details

18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

companies, US mid-sized companies, international small companies, and international equity. Brown’s teams use revenue instead of market capitalization to define their areas of focus, and search for companies with high long-term growth... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Geoffrey Jones A second major influence on the diversification strategies of the trading companies was the boom in commodity prices. Industrialization in Europe and the United States stimulated a worldwide search for new sources of supply... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

September 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption

By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey Barkas

Founded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Recruitment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Selection and Staffing; Digital Platforms; Job Search; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Employment Industry; United States; Colorado; Ohio; Texas

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20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

my radar until I ventured onto HBS campus one day to attend an info session for what I thought was for getting an MBA, and instead turned out to be about doctoral programs in business schools. Becoming a faculty member is a long and winding process (with a lot of soul... View Details

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

disadvantages of either approach are to be overcome. In an attempt to overcome these disadvantages, governments may search for the organizational approaches that combine most effectively the skills and resources of both the public and the... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

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Bloomberg: corporate actions calendar

What kind of information is included in Bloomberg's Corporate Action Calendar? In Bloomberg type CACT and hit GO to get to the Corporate Actions menu. You can search by: Date Corporate action type Country Company name, for details on:... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

of HBS to global startup regions. FALL Is becoming a joiner right for me: Attend Rock/CPD career panel What does a startup job search look like? Meet with a Career and Professional Development (CPD) entrepreneurship coach (login required)... View Details

26 Mar 2021
Blog Post

How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition

a webinar on resumes. We asked Jill to answer a few questions related to her presentation, to assist you all as you navigate the job search process. What is your #1 tip for writing a strong resume that will stand out amongst the... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

at HBS I was introduced to the concept of a search fund which I found fascinating. In an ideal world, I would have done a search fund, but I realized I needed to be able to repay my loans and knew a View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

because of these incentives as well.[75] Qcells is also searching for a site for their 9 gigawatt solar manufacturing facility thanks to IRA funding, which is projected to support about 4,000 construction jobs throughout its construction... View Details

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Jeff Barkas

Then, we noticed a change. We heard about my grandma’s lost car keys, and we learned of my grandpa’s missed doctor appointments. Their health rapidly declined, and my family scrambled to care for them and search for elder care... View Details

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Bloomberg: hedge funds

type, issuer, etc. Click Modify Criteria to select filters to be removed. To search for funds type FSRC <GO> then follow these steps: Click on the amber links to add your criteria. You will see your selected criteria and the... View Details

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Fortune 500 / Fortune 1000 lists

used as the title of the article. To find Fortune lists, you can also try running run an Advanced search query with FORTUNE in the Source, or publication name, field AND For Fortune 500... View Details

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Hedge funds: screening, performance, & rankings

href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/morningstar-direct#" target="new">Morningstar Direct From the menu choose "New," then "Advanced Search," then "Hedge Fund". To screen by strategy search by... View Details

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Article databases: Which to choose?

How do I know which article database to use? Choose an article database to search using our comparison chart: Recommended for: News Trade Articles Academic Articles Comments ABI/ProQuest ... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

remembered that I had once said that I wanted to use these two years to make a stop and reformulate my professional goals, to find out what motivates me and to explore different alternatives, things that I had never tried before. I redefined my View Details

September 2016
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Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market

By: Sonia K. Kang, K. A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik and Sora Jun

Using interviews, a laboratory experiment, and a résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening."... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Job Search; Race