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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024) Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD) Social Enterprise Track Winner Empowering Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences. Pando Claire Wu (MBA 2023) Andrew Setiawan Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner Democratizing View Details

16 Jun 2020
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Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

perform better than firms who just connect with their customers physically. Recognize financial constraints. Many customers are facing financial hardship caused by layoffs, furloughs, and a reduction in their employment hours due to the COVID-deaccession. Firms should... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

in effective leadership. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Willy Shih , Derek van... View Details

25 May 2023
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Brazil’s Nubank Turns 10

Not a Neobank." The company went public in 2021; Warren Buffett is among its backers. "The Brazilian user base, which represents 95 percent of the company's total, is seen as a giant launching pad for Nu's long-term goals—starting with the underwriting View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes

Looking ahead to a career in hedge funds, Hughes is enthusiastic. "Analyzing companies from a qualitative and quantitative perspective is a natural progression from case studies at HBS," she says. She credits Lone Pine founder and... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

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For Organizations - Business & Environment

Independent Projects allow second-year HBS students to partner with an organization on a real-time challenge of strategic importance. Students are advised by a faculty member and receive academic credit for their final deliverable(s).... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and his subject matter simultaneously, and by removing... View Details

19 Jul 2017
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Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

credits were almost negligible in tipping the scale. “When we are making the decision whether to go to college, it’s not staring us in the face that we will get a tax credit,” Beshears says. “So, it’s not entering into our calculations at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

different tasks: explaining and servicing products, collecting information, and pressuring people to make purchases by overcoming resistance. Salesmen learned to answer specific questions about a product and its application, and to grant View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Advanced Negotiation: Great... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing... View Details

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Industry at its best,” Edwin H. Land believed, “is the intersection of science and art.” 1 A scientist and inventor,... View Details

20 May 2024
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Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

what you do, and showing up with a sense of purpose.” Roberts credits his family as his primary influence. As the youngest of three, with a sizable age gap between him and his older sisters, he was given a long leash and the foundational... View Details

21 May 2015
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3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

lender to lender, so make sure to really read the fine print! Private loans typically have variable interest rates, which means you may be able to secure a private loan with a lower interest rate than a Federal loan. Adding a co-signer with good View Details

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Product Management at Patch Patch is an API-based solution with solutions for carbon credit suppliers and companies ready to take climate action. Patch enables companies to embed carbon footprint estimation and removal directly into their... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 03 Jul 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details

02 Mar 2009
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When Goal Setting Goes Bad

sexist behavior without knowing that they are doing so. Or they claim credit based on the false belief that their role on the team was more important than reality would dictate. And they are affected by conflicts of interest without... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November, 2016
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Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising 1865 - 1910 National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade... View Details

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