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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School during the war, HBS instituted a number of programs with the military. From 1941 to 1943, for example, the Quartermaster Corps set up a Reserve Officers Training Corps at HBS to train officers in the preparation of military supplies, the View Details
- 28 Jul 2021
- News
Squarely in Their Corner
Amrita Ahuja (MBA 2007) witnessed the hard work and challenges involved in running a small business: Her first job was working as a summer camp day counselor at her parents’ daycare center in Cleveland... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Speaking out on behalf of the disabled
“When I first came to HBS, part of my goal was not to be too loud, too boisterous—not to be the center of attention,” says Danny Lipsitz (MBA 2014). But Lipsitz, who has a hearing disability, found that his verbal discretion was... View Details
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Maliha Khan
troubled her. "When I got to the factory floor, I found that the women there would never make progress — they could never advance in their jobs — unless they got the necessary education." Most of them, in fact, were illiterate.... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
in the developing world, Jeffrey Ballinger was the first to criticize Nike's labor policies in Asia. When he arrived in Indonesia in 1988, the country's daily minimum wage was about $0.86. By 1997, it had tripled to just over two dollars.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
regard, Aiken feels that women often face a different challenge than men because they are too often "put into staff positions rather than line management jobs in order to 'protect their success,'" which, she adds,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
pondering the best way to spend the summer between my first and second years, I decided early-on that I wanted to see what life was like with a .gov email address. Further, I wanted to find a job that would... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
thus far has been my section retreat during the first semester (shout-out to Section B!). Having a weekend to get to know 90+ new friends outside the classroom made me feel more at home at HBS. Before attending HBS, every student I talked... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
Subverting Career Trajectories
alternatives out there for us—otherwise we wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here in the first place. The toughest part of HBS for me has been reminding myself that although the MBA feels like a detour in the short-term, in the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
accurate – April rolled around and, like clockwork, so did an internship opportunity at Cruise, a self-driving car company (hence my futuristic commute). After WesTrek, I realized I wanted to work in San Francisco at a tech startup with a socially conscious mission.... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
businessmen and other leaders. " Robert McCabe (HBS MBA '58), Foreword to The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization , 2004 66 66 McCabe, "Foreword" in Gupta, ed., View Details
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Barr Even
“Some people were born to run marathons, but most of us weren’t. Some of us were born to work long hours, but you – you weren’t.” Six months out of college at my first job in investment banking, I started to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
further through the rigors of the case method: “You become very used to speaking publicly and defending your ideas,” she says. When Brackenridge graduated from HBS, she worked as a marketing analyst at DuPont. “I wouldn’t have been hired for that View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
Direct employment in the US Internet ecosystem has doubled in those four years, with 1 million new jobs added to the million that already existed in 2007, according to a recent study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau,... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
you put together. The basic motivating pressures for change inside the boardroom, I think, should be, "How do we do a better job? And to do a better job we've got to use the limited time we have efficiently, and we've got to get the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
balance sheet. The most important thing is the people. If you love a job but hate the people, you will not survive. If you love the people but hate the job, you’ll be OK. Sometimes in life you have to hitch your wagon to someone. When I... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) took a rather winding path to HBS. She first travelled south to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering at Duke University and then to the West Coast for a master’s in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
cabin. “When I get out, I still don’t feel like talking.” Some of the newer cranes are computerized, but Delaney prefers to do the job by feel — something he’s well qualified to do. “Too long,” he answers, when asked how long he’s been a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
of job that could lead to.” Her parents suggested chemical engineering. “I thought it would be a good way to get through college and become self-sufficient.” At first, the plan seemed sound. An undergraduate internship with Chevron became... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail