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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

08 Mar 2022
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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

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

correlation vs. cause and effect. As commenter Diogenes put it, “Prove with a cogent methodology that racial and gender diversity lead to greater profitability. Prove causation, not correlation (which studies to date primarily by View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service sector jobs). Spence argues in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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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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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

online business programs I have already applied so much of what I have learned. My strategy and message for my team and how we communicate with our customers has begun to shift. Paige Peterson Sales Manager, Western US at Coravin, Inc. As a View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

about their loan repayment journeys. Ina Foalea Class: MBA 2018 Industry: Management Consulting Could you please share a little bit about your upbringing and background? I was brought up in Moldova. I don’t come from money. My family is... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Fostering Diversity

believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender,... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

toward paying living wages in their supply 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... View Details

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Demonstration Policy | About

designate a moderator in consultation with the event's host. A moderator will generally be a member of the faculty or senior staff of HBS or Harvard. The moderator's aim is to act as a neutral arbiter and to ensure that speakers take open... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

29 Oct 2020
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Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

macro shocks occurred. I discovered a pathway to economic development in management consulting after learning about the huge impact that strategy advisory firms in Africa had helped create. I transitioned to McKinsey after successful... View Details

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system, start-ups and non-profit... 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

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

was to help Taiwan build a presence in the semiconductor business. Taiwan’s government had set up an economic planning group led by Morris Chang, formerly of Texas Instruments, who conceived of and started what is now Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero (MBA 2019) and Daniela Izquierdo (MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both worked as View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

the global value chain, and what more might we expect? Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia: In 2012, a survey by the World Economic Forum and [the consulting firm] Accenture, devoted to assess the risk of a disruption in the global supply chain,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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