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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
- News
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
- News
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
- News
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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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private Partnerships SEI25 Skills View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
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Answering the Doctor's Call
key advisory and stewardship role at Downing Enterprises. “But,” he adds, “I can definitely see the synergistic advantages of having both business and medical training. Clearly, there’s a health-care gap for urban poor, and it goes along...
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- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
using the onset of daylight savings in some countries to test how interactions changed before and after the one-hour time change. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is the temporal distance,”...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
very own debtors' prisons. Their task is Sisyphean: they work, pay the monthly debt to the lender, yet see a perpetual gap between payments and value. The payments can seem like an extortion episode from The Sopranos. Exit strategies are...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
decisions? We've announced twenty acquisitions since Lucent was formed in early 1996. Although we don't have an "acquisition strategy" as such, we are open to acquiring firms that will better enable us to execute our business strategies. For instance, when we find we...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
industry or region, and then going out and testing them in real life, that students can find those tiny gaps where it’s wrong— and where they can leverage with smart investments. “We don’t want the course to just be about polishing...
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- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
discussed the enormous gap between our current situation and the UN SDG goal at a press conference, articulating how “there will definitely be a global crisis” if stakeholders do not act swiftly to address water scarcity. Agriculture...
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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog
(e.g., web3/NFTs, blockchain, creator economy, tough tech, CRISPR and personalized medicine, health tech, fintech, investing in emerging markets). Ethical considerations, biases, and the racial/gender capital gap in the VC ecosystem The...
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- 18 Jul 2018
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Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
value" with her professional ambition to "close the data gap working with advertisers." Amira arrived at a concept that would personalize the shopping experience by concentrating on the virtual shopping list, a personal...
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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Ventures—for three months to create the landmark conference. The full recording of the program is available at hbsangels.com/annual-conference. Toronto Panel Grapples with Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender...
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Josh Solera
says Josh, “were transferable whatever they were doing. I saw a lot of gaps in my own business know-how. I was good at reading financial statements, but not at understanding why things are the way they are.” Josh chose HBS for its...
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Jennifer Kelly
successful professionals all over the world. I'm excited about the enterprise because it covers the biggest gap in improving social mobility — helping young people realize what they are capable of doing." This summer, Jennifer will...
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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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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate....
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