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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
understanding of what factors likely influence success and failure. Many startups in developed ecosystems eventually enter other markets and understanding constraints can aid this expansion. Additionally, venture capital investing has... View Details
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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the HBS Loan Repayment Assistance Program. My financial aid award letters from when I was a student indicate $99,999 for a student contribution. The LRAP eligibility calculation is using a higher amount. Why? The software that prints the... View Details
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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
how the organization represents itself now and in the future. Staying atop priorities today is surely important, but so is working into the future, and the ITPSD team is constantly ideating on what IT needs today in order to evolve to meet the needs of tomorrow. This... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
four children were old enough to do basic math, Tisch set up a fund for each of them that was to be used for charity. “Rather than spend money on another iPod,” says Charlotte, 17, Tisch’s youngest daughter, “my sister and I support AIDS... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
important activity for pioneering entrepreneurs, they are unconsciously aided by other actors who are acting out of self-interest rather than from a desire to actively help these entrepreneurs. Furthermore, entrepreneurs are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law through the Federal View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
creative ideas from their generation through future use by others. We test the hypothesis that brokered ideas are less likely to be used in future creative efforts. The results illustrate how collaborative brokerage can aid in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
around. So it was really a mixed feeling, between euphoria and great apprehension about the country that we were inheriting. You survived two assassination attempts, and six of your aides were killed. Yet, you chose not to live in the... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
often be greater. Brand preferences and consumption levels in emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil tend to be more fluid. Consumer research is therefore critical to aid marketers trying to cement brand preferences early on as... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success
initiative he helped establish. “Having enough financial aid to be here is not sufficient to ensure that you have the cultural capital to navigate an environment and institution like HBS,” Bedford explained. “Low-income and first-gen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
A Michigan native and graduate of the University of Southern California, Richard Stillman served full-time in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1965. His military career, during which he rose to the rank of colonel and command of the Third Army’s 20th Infantry Regiment,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
cheering for her son on the soccer field or meeting with Nelson Mandela to discuss how to stop the spread of the AIDS virus in Africa, Carroll’s no-nonsense, energetic style comes through. In a world where people ask whether women can... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
methods, compared to statistics, of being stored in the brain, but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
ongoing state support and federal emergency aid will be required to avoid a crisis.” Telepsychiatry may increase patient access David Theobald (HBS MBA 1991)’s interest in mental health technology commercialization has led him to Genoa... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
Clifford, the Big Red Boat.) The final result was that Boaty McBoatface, aided by the Internet, polled 120,000 votes, four times more than the second place finisher. It was likely much more attention than had ever been drawn to a... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
effort. William H. McLean (HBS MBA '34), Doriot's former teaching assistant, served as Doriot's chief assistant throughout the war. Henry W. Hoagland (HBS MBA '39), another student of Doriot's, also worked as an aide to Doriot in the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
ticket sales to the Boston Resiliency Fund for COVID-19 relief. Although we rely entirely on ticket sales to fund our two annual concerts, all of us feel incredibly fortunate and privileged to be in this safe campus environment and continue singing in a pandemic. We... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
designing soft robotic gloves that aid with upper extremity issues. A patient with a spinal cord injury may use the glove to pinch fingers together, making lifting a glass easier. Future work will focus on using sensors that respond to a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
committed to doing it. Across the School I'm already seeing wonderful momentum. Everything from going to the market to recruit a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, to rethinking how we calculate financial aid for MBA students whose... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
generated, and forty of them had been launched as formal experiments. Once an idea was given a green light, the actual experiment had to be designed. The I&D Team wanted to perform as many tests as possible, so it strove to plan each experiment quickly. To View Details