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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
course will equip you with the tools to formulate, communicate, and drive strategies based on financial factors." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Aug 20 8 Weeks $1,850 + applicable international taxes View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
Beer is much more fun. “In real life nobody tells you what is the number you have to maximize” “It’s a product where you get both vertical and horizontal differentiation. It’s a product everybody knows. It’s something that’s relatively... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
income mobility has not declined in the US, said "This metric of income inequality (ignoring mobility) causes meaningless chasing of rainbows Folks move up through the quintiles of earning all the time (therefore mitigating the issue... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
delivery reveals some powerful, and ultimately optimistic, principles. First, the best way truly to reduce health care cost is to improve its quality—better diagnoses, more timely treatment, less invasive methods, getting the right... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
In his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda addresses the question of whether leaders create history or are created by it. In this excerpt from Chapter One, he discusses why most individual... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins and provides a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
Charlie Barco passed away unexpectedly in 1994, he left a strong operation in the capable hands of his wife and daughter. "My parents understood the importance of long-range planning in a family business," says Kathy Barco, who had completed the first of three OPM... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
grow the business to five times its size over a period of three years. Then when Dzodan graduated university, he decided to temporarily pivot away from entrepreneurship, and he joined a large Argentinian company as an accountant. From... View Details
- Profile
Venus Miller
think about how you would apply them in a managerial context. That's what's so beneficial about cases at Harvard. You get examples from real life discussed by ninety different people. It gives you something tangible your can draw on... View Details
- 13 May 2015
- Blog Post
Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive
who spent her summer working in consulting. Where did you do your summer internship and what was your job function? I did my summer internship at McKinsey and Company in the Lagos, Nigeria office. I worked as an Associate Consultant for an intensely rewarding 10 weeks.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
benefit from additional career coaches, increased program offerings, and extended walk-in hours. “One thing we learned from the last downturn in 2001 and 2002 is that the students need more communication from us,” Kierstead adds. “The difference this View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
better." Graduating from HBS at the dawn of the psychedelic '70s, the Class of 1971 nevertheless seemed to follow in the footsteps of generations of MBAs before them, opting for careers on Wall Street or in manufacturing, real estate, or... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
volunteer in Africa before attending HBS; thinking back to that time made him want to do "something useful and outrageous" once again. Particularly concerned about violence among young people, Seder decided that he wanted to "make a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
120,000 employees came to work concerned that best-available safety protocols would not be enough to protect them from a little-understood novel coronavirus. “But now it has evolved into a real moment of pride for us,” Weckert reflects.... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- Blog Post
Yes, Introverts CAN Network Successfully: A Brief How-To for People Who "Hate" Networking
jobseekers to schedule every aspect of their journey from the time needed to conduct research to initial outreach to potential mentors. "Sundays are the best time for electronic communications," he suggests.... View Details
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Mike Watitwa
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? As I advanced in my professional life, I recognized some opportunities for growth and development. I realized that to be able to make a real impact, I needed to advance my leadership,... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
so it took time for me to feel confident in my appearance,” Girard explained. “I found my place and my confidence after I became an athlete.” Girard was not just any athlete either, her athletic ability and drive led her to a professional... View Details
- 09 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Veterans Day Reflections
Applying to HBS from Afghanistan I remember very clearly the first time I set foot on the Harvard Business School campus. I had recently returned home from my second nine-month deployment to Afghanistan and was contemplating what was next... View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
So this is the end
PowerPoint deck and to have presented my work to the project leaders – the sense of completion and accomplishment is very real and gratifying. But it’s hard to say goodbye, to the project and the people. I have spent so much View Details