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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
eventually enter other markets and understanding constraints can aid this expansion. Additionally, venture capital investing has transitioned to a global phenomenon and being able to evaluate which emerging ecosystems are likely to be... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Then he began lobbying the administration of George W. Bush for additional funding to fight AIDS (in 2003, the US government pledged $15 billion toward the disease). Like Bono, Koehn... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
and Bradley as subordinates. To the consternation of Patton and Bradley, Eisenhower first sought to placate Montgomery but finally confronted him when Montgomery failed to follow orders to play his part in the battle plans. An aide to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
from pioneers driven more by social issues than economic gain who build the foundations of the industry but who are ultimately weeded out by the arrival of major players from other established industries, perhaps aided by government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
of his role in influencing markets. As Fed chairman, when he advised people not very many years ago to take out variable rate mortgages, he aided and abetted the housing market excesses. When he said there was irrational exuberance in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
other. This year the defending champion diverted to rescue a competitor, damaged his own boat in the process, and had to drop out. But he never hesitated: to aid a mariner in distress is the unquestioned code of the sea. I wish that on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
eliminates a core source of international instability, and replaces expensive, tax-supported aid with productive, locally generated economic activities. Henry L. Kotkins Jr. (MBA ’72) Seattle, WA Poor Taste? Did the juxtaposition of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
over 2 percent of our sales. And that exceeds the development aid as a percentage of GDP of many countries, where the agreed target should be .07 percent of GDP. Most countries are way below that. However, we cannot fix poor governance,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Business Review To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Hoffeld Abstract—This article discusses what behavioral research does and does not tell us about factors that aid the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
familiarity could aid in the process of team learning. In an experimental study, we find that familiar teams learn at a faster rate than unfamiliar teams. Additionally, we find that team familiarity leads to the development of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Departments | Employment
working in the MBA Program We are organized into seven sub-departments, including: Admissions & Financial Aid Career & Professional Development Community Values Program Administration (Communications, Financial Management, HR, Joint... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
often be greater. Brand preferences and consumption levels in emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil tend to be more fluid. Consumer research is therefore critical to aid marketers trying to cement brand preferences early on as... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
A Michigan native and graduate of the University of Southern California, Richard Stillman served full-time in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1965. His military career, during which he rose to the rank of colonel and command of the Third Army’s 20th Infantry Regiment,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
cheering for her son on the soccer field or meeting with Nelson Mandela to discuss how to stop the spread of the AIDS virus in Africa, Carroll’s no-nonsense, energetic style comes through. In a world where people ask whether women can... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
methods, compared to statistics, of being stored in the brain, but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
announcement. This finding is consistent with analysts filling in the information gap left by the lack of financial statement recognition. The results of this study confirm the theorized roles of financial statement recognition and analyst activities in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
economic instability—the MBA Program has strengthened its commitment to a diverse and engaged HBS community. To ensure that applicants have the appropriate resources to succeed at the School, the MBA Program plans to increase its financial View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
those types of things, it's just bad news that we hear, or AIDS and epidemics and things like that, Sierra Leone, Liberia with Ebola. So what I'm trying to do is talk about things that are outside those things that we always hear about.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
1972 mentioned that "Harvard has the largest number of women students in any of the major business schools." By 1975, the magazine reported that two hundred women were enrolled at the School and that the Women Students Association was holding an annual Career Day,... View Details