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Real Property - Course Catalog

and portfolios effectively Think critically about real estate deals Lead in a dynamic and evolving global industry While rigorous in financial content, the course is suitable both for students pursuing full-time careers in real estate and... View Details

Angle of Insight

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (EGC), because I think that to understand where we are going, we have to consider where we have come from. EGC gives such a great historical perspective on the United... View Details

14 Dec 2015
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Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children

Kevin Jenkins (MBA 1985) is president and CEO of the nonprofit World Vision International, a global Christian humanitarian relief, development, and advocacy organization. In this video, he talks about the organization’s mission and his... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

in organizations. Can you offer an example? Sony's role in Japan's path to global conquest is probably the best example. In the wake of the devastation following World War II, Sony acquired from Bell Laboratories one of the first licenses... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD... View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

documents showed sophisticated understanding of the relationship between increasing CO2 concentrations and increasing temperatures. 1990s In an attempt to prevent regulation, the fossil fuel industry initiated marketing campaigns in the... View Details

29 Aug 2018
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From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship

at HBS. First, working in Berlin with a truly multicultural team for the first time in my career, highlighted to me the importance of understanding cultural diversity, and personal preferences, which was the main learning point of our FGI... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Humbulani Dombo

geographies; people who can understand the global dynamics—politics and economics—affecting their markets. It's a very different thing selling platinum for automobile catalytic converters versus copper for... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Jun 2002
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Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change

students to use their skills and knowledge to help develop the African continent. Referring to corrupt leaders in Africa, Savage said, “We still have some of the old guard who don't understand that things have changed. They are on their... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Giving Through HBS

advance; and they give to HBS because they believe in our mission and understand that their support will be leveraged to have a broad and deep impact. Many of the big ideas that have changed the global View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

16 Jul 2024
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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

accelerate progress toward malaria elimination and gaining a better understanding of what it takes to successfully deliver global health solutions. Although the population vulnerable to malaria has doubled... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

their understanding of global business practice. “Without support for research, we wouldn’t have the insight to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. It enables us to tap into new methodologies... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

notes that immigrants helped launch 25 percent of US tech and engineering companies between 1995 and 2005 and generated 450,000 jobs in 2005. Such contributions, Ghadar says, could help America climb from its current No. 5 spot in the World Economic Forum's View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

decisions be structured. They aim to prepare students for these decisions, both as entrepreneurs and as investors. The next three modules look at a variety of financing models across the venture's life cycle, with an aim to understanding... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

John A. Quelch, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for International Development, became the leader of the School's Global Initiative last August. A veteran HBS faculty member who recently spent... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

15 Nov 2020
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Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

relatable—they can help listeners understand what makes HBS distinctive and how it’s making a difference in the world,” explains Brian Kenny, HBS’s chief marketing and communications officer and host of “Cold Call.” Two to three times a... View Details

13 Aug 2024
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Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

Analyst at McKinsey and a year in banking in Australia, Kuyoro arrived on the HBS Campus excited to continue her career exploration in a general management MBA program. At HBS, Kuyoro gained a deeper understanding of Nigeria’s context in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Investment Strategies Course Number 1425 Senior Lecturer William Vrattos Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Exam Career Focus Global capital markets are vast and dynamic, with over $100 trillion in listed public... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

technology environment while they're at school, because they're going to have to understand and manage technology in their subsequent careers. Our students have to experience a world-class information technology environment while they're... View Details

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