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Ann Chao
In her previous HBS profile, Ann Chao, MBA 2013, said she hoped to be one of those people who "can bridge the gap between creativity and business." She didn’t waste time. "After graduation," Ann says, "I didn’t...
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his life when he was just 21 years old. Having volunteered as a Big Brother while working at Chemical Bank in New York City, he saw firsthand the need for a program that would bridge the...
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- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
action from leaders in government and business alike. This course gave me a foundational understanding of how American capitalism originated and continually perpetuates the racial wealth gap we see today. As Matthew Desmond wrote for The...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in...
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- 11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather stations, mostly in airports; radar,...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Mar 2023
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman...
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- 02 Apr 2015
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Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
mending information gap in health care. Majmudar, whose own company is working at the intersection of health data and wearables, pushed future innovators to focus on ideas that will have measurable impacts on people's health. Hsiang also...
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Kaki Ettinger
continuing work on in Burbank this summer. HBS offers a unique learning environment that is closing the gap between "school" and "real world" - not only honing skills, but teaching students how to apply them. Above...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
might be important to think about when we’re interpreting SAT scores. Since then, I’ve been able to go back to the field, with that knowledge from the lab, and look at how policies that reduced skipping among test-takers—removing penalties for wrong answers—helped to...
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- 19 Nov 2019
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Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
regulation. This would include at least three parts, all of which are all hard to accomplish: Disclosure rules on who gets to see what is in the credit algorithms. Increased expertise at the regulatory agencies. Data collection to know who is getting loans and where...
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Marie Kyle
investing. But I had gaps to fill in my education, in understanding finance and entrepreneurship. With my MBA, I want to take a chance to learn more about investment I could get behind." With innovation in mind, Marie came to...
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Elsa Sze
newspaper. “I noticed a gap between what we talk about in class and what we do outside of class,” she says. “Leadership takes a willingness to speak up; the courage to be the first to raise your hand.” Ultimately, Elsa would like a career...
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
the problems innovators are trying to solve are focused on gaps in banking services. Yet, many of the challenges they face stem from the fact that they are not banks. Second, there are many opportunities to help banks get better. Third,...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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From Das’s Desk
this lifelong learning to you. We’re calling this work “stages not ages,” as a shorthand way of noting that the learning needs of our alumni are constantly changing yet fall loosely into five stages based on several factors. These include, among others, the time View Details
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows
into parallel universes. Large, unexplained gaps — more than $100 billion — have developed between the profits reported to capital markets and to tax authorities. These discrepancies can no longer be explained by accepted differences...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Alumni Books
responsible for the personal growth of such people and illustrates the archetypes with personal stories, many in the CEOs’ own words. The Executive’s Guide to Information Technology, 2nd ed. by John Baschab and Jon Piot (MBA ’95) (John Wiley & Sons) This book bridges...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth annual conference in November,...
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- 02 Oct 2016
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Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
event. Elements of the weekend were tailored to the interests and knowledge gaps of those from family businesses. Cases focused on relevant topics like small scale franchising and analyzing family business success stories. Staying in the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and clinics with...
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