Graduation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

relished exceptional personal challenges - running in big-city marathons, amateur race car driving, and, as befits a graduate of the Naval Academy, skippering his 58-foot sloop Integrity to victory in the 1991 Bermuda Race. "I lead a full... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

2007
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details

Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States

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Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School.

In addition to teaching at HBS, Professor Markey is an advisory partner in Bain &... View Details

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Eligibility & Rules - Alumni

awarded solely to participating companies and not to any grant-funding institutions. Previous Regional Winners cannot reapply to the New Venture Competition. Winners of the student New Venture Competition must wait one year after View Details

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

within for the long term, and one that she would ultimately build in future roles as a proud professional and parent. However, after graduation Leahy was eager to stay on the East Coast, so instead of moving to Oregon, she... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of finance after View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In studying 100 founders of Indian software companies, they found that those who exert more hands-on management—keeping close tabs on workers with regular evaluations, setting expectations, creating... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Leadership - Health Care

new to the Health Care Initiative (HCI), Lanika's deep-rooted ties to her hometown, Boston, Massachusetts, have given her an intricate understanding of the local healthcare landscape. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in... View Details

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

that some kids are just not college material, and thus contravening the script of the American dream,” says Fuller, who wrote the report along with Rachel Lipson, director of the Harvard Project on Workforce; Farah Mallah, a doctoral student at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

1980s was that it lacked familiarity and networks within that country. Finally, and most important, Unilever had distinctive strengths in management. Unilever invested heavily in its management. It recruited some of the best available View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” learning and convening space where venture teams with at least one Harvard... View Details

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3.2 Financial Aid - MBA

complete promissory notes and student loan entrance counseling. If the amount of their loan exceeds the balance due on their student bill, a refund may be requested. Loan borrowers will also be required to complete student loan exit counseling before View Details

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

brought us closer than ever before. “Te quiero también, apá.” Michael Brunman (he/him/his), Class of 2023 The summer after graduating high school, I was 18 and curious about my sexuality, I decided to give myself seven days of freedom. I... View Details

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

sanctions in order to try to help someone who is maybe going through a difficult time." Zlatev, who partnered with Justin Berg, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and former Stanford doctoral student Alisa... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

environments in which payoffs are determined by comparing relative performance. It's not that the pressure of competition causes women to stumble but, rather, that men step up their performance in competitive situations. Consider the highly competitive job market for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

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Loeb House | About

Another initiative dear to both John and Frances Loeb’s hearts was the Loeb Fellowship program at the Graduate School of Design. This prestigious, one year fellowship program has for five decades has offered emerging leaders in the field... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Excellence. Emily R. McComb : Recipient of the 2022 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class's HBS experience. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2022 European Finance Association Best... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Blackstone. “Associate professors are the future of the School. I want to support the next generation as they come along.” “Associate professors are the future of the School. I want to support the next generation as they come along.” Melwani has remained close to the... View Details

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2.5 Disciplinary Outcomes & Sanctions - MBA

return/reestablish relationship with HBS Prohibition from attending recruiting, social, and other HBS-sponsored events Loss of elected leadership roles Denial to participate in graduation Mandatory withdrawal for a defined period and/or... View Details

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