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- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
(MBA 1990), Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), and John Rice (MBA 1992) Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: In 1998, Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976) cofounded StarVest Partners, one of the largest women-owned venture View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Stewart (MBA 1983) address Black female leadership. Noting that a group of unicorns is called “a blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological, and economic... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
about plans by Industrial Plastics Canada to open a new plant in nearby North Bay, Ontario. Yes, the new plant would generate 35 jobs, but the CBC report said “the company will transform a polymer called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
calls for new, smarter regulation. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward modernizing regulatory theory. Professor Moss and his coeditor have gathered essays by leading scholars that integrate the latest research about the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
detail. “Everything seems so obvious when it’s written down in condensed narrative format with accompanying exhibits,” she says later, calling the experience of listening to two years of her life boiled down to a 70-minute discussion... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
even if it’s hard.” The conversation covered a range of issues, including the new $30B Canadian child care budget, which Collenette called “potentially transformative,” the likelihood that work-from-home arrangements will persist, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
chosen to pursue scale or impact or both: Akshaya Patra, Magic Bus, Health Leads, Year Up (YU), and KaBoom! Both Akshaya Patra and Magic Bus committed to transformative scale by remaining focused on their core mission and gaining operational efficiencies, what we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
teachers and staff and are consistently challenged to fill vacancies. This project focused specifically on working with the Human Capital Staffing team and analyzing their hiring process to identify pain points that are preventing them... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
interest to be capitalized (added to the loan principal balance). For additional information, please contact the Federal Student Loan Support Center at 1-800-557-7394 or online. Why are my eligible loans less than my total loan amount?... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
inadvertently omitted from social contract negotiations. For example, in 1988, Komatsu, Japan's leader in earth-moving construction equipment, and U.S. conglomerate Dresser Industries combined their North American engineering, manufacturing, and marketing efforts to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
his wallet and saw he only had seven dollars left. That stuck with him, and it has fueled him ever since. “The power in the entertainment industry is shifting to the superstars, and the smartest among those stars are finding ways to View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
how much relative weight do they place on each element? How do they frame the advantages and disadvantages between central London and Canary Wharf? What type of items should they program into the new facility (cellular or open floor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan, India. “We’ll soon have a dialysis... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
deficits," says the genial second-year student. As president of the Student Association (SA), one of Mitchell's primary tasks was to bring concessions - student-run businesses offering goods and services such as stationery supplies and dry cleaning - under the auspices... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
faculty members with observations about and feedback on their teaching. “We’ll have the capacity to create and cut together videotapes of people teaching so that they can see themselves,” notes Garvin. “It’s one thing to hear, ‘You seem to lean toward the left side of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital business at Mercer, and before... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Capital Management, had just finished listening to the hour-long earnings call for Twitter’s Q4 2017 results. Was Twitter doing well? That depended on which numbers she chose to believe. According to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman