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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
environment. My responsibilities spanned two main areas: supporting fund strategy by conducting deep dives into new markets and verticals that might offer promising investment opportunities, and assessing the viability of opportunities... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
tiny houses for short vacations, won the runner-prize in the business track. The New Venture Competition is hosted by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative and is open to all students and alumni... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit autonomy, reward each unit for its own... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
maximum initial award of up to $50,000 USD. For example, if a recipient’s annual salary is $95,000 USD, their initial GO Fellowship award may be up to $35,000 USD. A recipient may apply to renew the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
in the current environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity, resulting in a net economic crisis that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.” To engage customers in this new abnormal, Deshpandé offers the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
serve as CFO for the Africa Healthcare Network in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Africa before attending HBS. Ike Kyei (MBA 2019) is a former business analyst at... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
about all that CEM has to offer in regards to sustainability and to showing the leading stance that emerging markets have taken on this pivotal issue. We invite you continue to follow our collaboration with the Business & Environment... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
initiatives to help disenfranchised groups often focus on either race or gender. For example, Obama last year launched My Brother's Keeper, an initiative to create opportunities for boys and young men of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
initiatives for top-tier customers. However, the "startup bug" was always in me: creating something from nothing, positively impacting a market, and thinking big. I joined ClimaCell in Boston after its Series-A funding, and played a role... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
Ph.D.'s from the Divinity School." During his term, Stern has worked to continue long-standing traditions and to initiate new ones. The Leadership Program, a top-notch executive course run by HBS professors, is now in its fifth year. This... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in which to examine this question since entrepreneurial ventures supplying cadavers for medical science have recently emerged alongside traditional academic-housed programs,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
destruction of natural habitats such as forests and wetlands. On the other hand, business is gradually beginning to make efforts to reverse those frightening trends by creating new processes, products, and paradigms that take the environment into account. "Sustainable... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
"intrapreneurs." In this excerpt, Lerner discusses the pluses and minuses of compensation schemes. Read an interview with the author R&D, Meet VC From The Architecture of Innovation By Josh Lerner The failure to offer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for aggressively growing our U.S.-based manufacturing operations, while incorporating a global mindset and offering our customers a true international capability.” With technology leveling the playing field, CGM can function as a globally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
other priorities. At $475 million (as of June 30), the campaign is close to its initial dollar goal, but definitely not over. Several campaign initiatives have not reached their target numbers, including... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details