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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
person from the community have been hired in her place to do the work? “The experience made me realize that I had work to do to understand what communities need, and that I needed to pick up some skills and learn how to add value,” she... View Details
- 9 AM – 4:30 PM EDT, 06 Jun 2023
- Career Events
Renewal: A Workshop for Work and Life Transition in New York City
Do you find yourself considering new ways to contribute to family, community, or work? This program will allow you to look more deeply into the essential elements that are always present when making the decisions that bring you closer to... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a... View Details
- Profile
Alexandra Stanek
understanding financial statements, accounting, all the fundamentals managers need. But the larger virtue of HBS is that it’s a place to be challenged. To be in a setting with 90 very sharp people and be able to speak up and represent a... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Steve Alden
Steve Alden has unimpeachable credentials in quantitative analytics, placing first in Massachusetts on the CPA exam in 2007, and in the top-ten nationwide. But when it came time to assess potential MBA programs, Steve gave qualitative... View Details
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John Bracaglia
technology as we build out into the future." For his summer internship, John has signed on with OnCorps, a startup based in Boston that is applying personalized machine learning to help people make better decisions. "I want to... View Details
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Catherine Neale
nonprofit board positions or awareness of the social impact of business decisions. The learning is reciprocal. "Listening to other classmates makes me want to get some private sector experience," Catherine says. "And... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
place where students and faculty can teach and learn together. In order to make this happen, students must build an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. We have reason to believe that this atmosphere did... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
point? Alvarez: We are in a place now where ecommerce has become big enough in enough categories to make brick and mortar retailers very nervous about store profitability. Amazon doesn't have to own 50... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There aren't many people who can View Details
- Web
War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog
human condition-as well as our approach to leadership, strategy, negotiation and policy. More specifically, we will: Draw lessons for leadership, strategy, negotiation, and policy from cases where decision making occurs in contexts... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
to macro shocks in the global economy, and there were few places to turn to for financial support. “There’s not much venture capital now, and for sure there wasn’t much venture capital back then,” he adds. “It was very tough to go to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
and income statement will have no market effect. But to argue that proper costing of stock options would have a significant adverse impact on companies that make extensive use of them is to admit that the economics of stock options, as... View Details
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni
criteria (region, neighborhood, and general availability) and of those applicants, one or two must be willing to volunteer as a facilitator for the group. Every effort will be made to place all interested and eligible applicants. What is... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded
wrong path is quite fulfilling.” CSECO makes the Fiberscope, a fiber-optic device resembling a plumber’s snake that can be fed into hard-to-reach places such as a gas tank. As Harris explains, agents often... View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I am spending this summer working at City Fund in Washington, D.C. through the Education Pioneers fellowship,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
pressure is the fear of losing an adequately performing CEO. To make sure this does not happen, compensation committees rely on surveys by compensation consultants about CEO pay in similar companies but without regard to company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
end of my career: knowing when to stop. I knew that the later in life I pushed embarking on a new career, the more difficult it would be. HBS seemed like an exciting place to make that transition. I didn’t... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark