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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006). Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details

03 May 2024
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From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) is an educational program designed to increase opportunity in business education for high-potential college students making an impact in their school or community. We sat down with Erica... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

testing, and regression analysis. The course is intended for individuals at all stages of their careers who would like to strengthen their analytical skills, including college students and recent graduates without a background in... View Details

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1943 Born, Chicago, Illinois 1965 Earns AB, History and Literature, Radcliffe College 1966 Joins PHI as Technical Editor 1968 Joins Cambridge Computer Associates as Technical Writer... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

entrepreneurs building edtech products; investors, policy makers and others involved with education. The Chronicle of Higher Education Primary news source dedicated to covering colleges and universities. The website also includes a job... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

"For most of the eighties," recalls the unflappable mother of three and wife of a college president, "I was pregnant, walking through steel mills, and buying companies." Now working with small business owners on a national scale, she... View Details

03 May 2022
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Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Sep 2012
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HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

name, Bikram's Yoga College of India. In 1994, he began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers per year, according to the case. Worried that competitors were copying his teachings and techniques, Bikram decided in 2002 to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Mar 2022
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Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

curricula. The good news, says Huckman, is that many of these skills can be learned simultaneously with clinical skills. “Like medicine,” he says, “leadership is best taught through observation, experience, and practice.” In fact, the case study method used in MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Oct 2002
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Michael F. Cronin

College and to HBS, where he has worked on and chaired several gift and reunion committees. In addition to serving as chairman of the board of Harvard Student Agencies, he has helped set up a venture fund that aids social and nonprofit... View Details

10 Jun 2019
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What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS

my journey from college to business school was defined by a series of serendipitous opportunities which I did little to author myself. The difference that I made was in being adaptive and making the best of the environment I was in. For... View Details

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and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated from both Harvard College and HBS. In 1968, Gates began his... View Details

28 Oct 2022
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Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

Tell us about your life before HBS. As a first-generation Latina who was raised by a single mom, I’ve always felt a deep urgency to advocate for those whose voices have historically been marginalized. To that end, after college I worked... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award from the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Best Student Paper Award at the 19th Annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) Conference in 2019.... View Details

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

History Center Full text available as a networked resource Western Electric News was the employee magazine at the Western Electric Company, published from 1912 to 1933. Baker Library holds volumes 1–20, March 1912–February 1932. Bibliography Baker Library | Historical... View Details

13 Jul 2021
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A View from the Horizon

probably what I’d do, too. But my sister had a different idea for my future. She pushed me to go to college instead—and I listened—which is how I ended up studying accounting at Boston College. But even though I was on a path different... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

speaks to Ranjay Gulati—his former college classmate and his eventual HBS Executive Education professor—about how Panera has faced the myriad challenges of the pandemic, the leadership values that guide him, and how a deep, personal loss... View Details

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Debora L. Spar | About

of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 2017 to 2018. During her tenure at Barnard, Spar led initiatives to highlight women’s leadership and advancement, including the... View Details

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

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