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11 Jul 2016
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Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

Specialisterne, a Danish software firm with 75 percent of its workforce diagnosed with ASD. Ferose, like the founder of Specialisterne, has a son diagnosed with ASD. Specialisterne is what Austin calls the “gold standard” of neurodiversity. The software testing and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

felt intimidating. Sara Simon Pioger Business Owner at TILT Langues The rich variety in content differentiated this course as a uniquely high-quality, fully engaging learning experience. Shane Sabine, International Business & Communications View Details

October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
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Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet

This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe

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06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

classes we took, I did write a case on Raj Kapoor, one of the early entrepreneurs in Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by the inimitable Geoffrey Jones. And I did quit my job as a consultant to start... View Details

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

Roberts went into consulting to dip his toes into the field of business and discover his passions. He worked in sectors such as economic development and climate and sustainability, founded a nonprofit academy to deliver capability... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

education. In turn, as a college graduate who became a federal government employee and a consultant in Washington, Checchi's father set an example that helped pave the way for young Al to win a private school scholarship, which led to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
News

Turkish Delight

could be seen as a vestigial remnant of the six years he spent as a consultant at Bain & Company after leaving HBS. “Once a Bainie, always a Bainie. And I’m married to one as well,” he laughs, referring to the company’s chairman, Orit... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Prineeta Kulkarni

interfered with survival, but also with how patients integrated into their communities." After graduation, she took a position with a boutique consulting firm, L.E.K. Consulting, that concentrated on a portfolio of life science,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Cait Haught

of two or three, consult with nonprofits "whose central mission addresses some aspect of inequality." Oberholzer-Gee and Nien-he Hsieh co-taught the class in the spring of 2016, and the school plans to offer it again next year.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

done, but I'd like to demonstrate the prescriptive possibilities by way of Jeff Gardner, a character I created for an earlier book on leadership. Jeff was the highly successful partner of a small consulting firm, and I ended the story in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

co-president of the Africa Business Club. She is also a part of the Women’s Student Association, African American Student Union, the Black Investment Club, the MoMBA Club, and the Wine & Cuisine Club. After graduation she plans to join Boston View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes Mike Baxter, a partner in the... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

06 Jan 2021
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

consulting for two years prior to coming to HBS. Growing up in a family that prioritized saving for a rainy day, I had been contributing as much as I could to retirement savings. I was relieved to find that doing so would not hurt my... View Details

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Give yourself a few months to really pour over the essay questions and find the anecdotes and experiences in your life that you think will allow you to portray your most authentic self. Consult with family, close friends, and colleagues –... View Details

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Ahmed Alimi

What's a natural childhood ambition? To be an astronaut? A firefighter? For Ahmed Alimi, the attraction was to number crunching. "My parents tell me that as a child, I said I wanted to be an accountant when I grew up. I loved math." In fact, Ahmed became... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consulting

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

consulting for foundations and nonprofits with the Monitor Institute by Deloitte. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? HBS has been the greatest learning experience for me. I feel privileged to have the opportunity... View Details

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Wombi Rose

How does a person go from naval engineering to producing high-end greeting cards? For Wombi Rose, MBA 2015, the journey took an important turn in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. "There is no better way to get to know your classmates than to be thrown into a foreign... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consulting; Consulting

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

chains with Shift and HBS’s Impact Weighted Accounts Project. Drew started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Amram Migdal Head of Knowledge Amram Migdal is the Head... View Details

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Dean’s House | About

1924 gift to the School was understood to be an endorsement of the need for professional management education. When Harvard Overseer Bishop William Lawrence approached him for a $1 million donation to help build the new campus, Baker refused. After View Details

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Patent terminology: Classification codes

For example: class Y02 – Climate change mitigation technology, Y10S -- subject matter covered by former USPC cross-reference, Y10T – Subject matter covered by former USPC Please consult the CPC and IPC website for detailed... View Details

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