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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About
buildings scattered across the Harvard College campus. By the early 1920s, enrollment had grown to nearly 700, and Dean Wallace B. Donham launched a campaign to build a dedicated campus where business school faculty and students could... View Details
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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Organizations (Excel File) Overview The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
Early COVID-19 lockdowns sparked a contentious debate that rages on in the workplace: Can businesses thrive if employees continue to work remotely? Skeptical CEOs, such as the leaders of Goldman Sachs and Starbucks, say they need workers... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
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HBS - The year in Review
Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Associate Professor Mark L. Egan Finance FIELD Immersion Experience Returns After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, the first-year required Field Immersion View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile is in the midst of a ten-year study looking at, among other things, how time pressure in a corporate setting affects employee creativity. She recently presented early findings and an... View Details
- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
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Jean Luo
HBS; they said it was the best thing they ever did. Second, every time I’ve made a big decision—starting my career at Goldman Sachs, leaving it for San Francisco—it was life-changing in a positive way. I thought HBS would be... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
experience physical improvements? In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from time-series street-level imagery. We connect changes in the physical appearance of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2023
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Joint Venture
knew early on he wanted to pursue a career in health care, his stamina for pre-med studies was flagging by his junior year at Wabash College, in Indiana. He began to wonder if becoming a doctor was the only... View Details
Keywords: Shoshi Parks
- 05 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Meet The HBS African American Student Union
members are first welcomed to the AASU family at our annual fall retreat, full of community building and bonding. From there, they are supported throughout their first year with workshops, panels, and socials. These events primarily focus on academic excellence,... View Details
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Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a successful hedge fund career to champion health equity through WellWithAll. He leverages his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
1953, MBA 1955). William A.M. Burden Sr. made a mark at Harvard as First Marshal of his graduating class and captain of the football team. Returning to his native New York, he launched a career on Wall Street with the firm James D. Smith... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
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About - Race, Gender & Equity
Review. Professor Ely is presently conducting research on organizational culture change aimed at reducing workplace inequality, strategies for women leaders to navigate gender stereotypes, and HBS alumni career and life decisions. She is... View Details
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2023
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back
designed to alleviate burdens for frontline workers. The model—which included elements like scheduling, cross-training, and optimal store layouts—freed up employees to create a better service experience for customers. This led to... View Details
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
personal experience and observation. When asked to imagine receiving a promotion at work, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. ©iPhoto “We wondered if women may think about things that men don’t,” says Brooks.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel