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24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

college and the effort that I took, at the time, to really improve my speaking skills. And at the time, I didn't really have any resources. So I remember it was very much trial and error, observing other people, asking friends for help.... View Details

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

leaders to serve the nation. But while there is general agreement about desired outcomes, the underlying developmental processes associated with these outcomes are not well understood. How do we grow such leaders? This paper reports on a longitudinal study of West... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

that capture people's imagination. Jobs is a CEO who has a flair for the dramatic, and also captures people's imagination. He is the rebellious part of the computer world. Like Bill Gates, he's another college dropout who is a self-made... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Dean McArthur set about assembling a group of expert academics and practitioners at HBS. As he recruited faculty, MBA and Executive Education courses were developed, attracting students and stimulating further research. One of these... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

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Commencement 2020 Address | About

if I share some of the things I feel especially grateful for. I have always seen my life as a series of happy accidents—an improbable journey that brought an engineering student who grew up in India, and who had never traveled abroad (or... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts

self-reliance and perseverance, despite his financial deprivation and the trauma of being abandoned. As time passes, Hajim displays an instinct for survival and a drive to excel. A highly motivated student and athlete, he earns an NROTC... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Feb 2013
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5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

emotional feeling of guilt. The researchers asked 67 college undergraduates to complete a series of tasks that involved recalling past guilt-inducing behavior, confronting an opportunity to cheat, and choosing whether to eat a piece of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

DC work. And going way back, before HBS, I led a group of students at Wellesley College to get Asian-American studies on campus for the first time, back in the 1980s. So, if we’re talking about character... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

computer, followed up by a series of PDP models including, in 1965, the PDP-8, considered the first minicomputer. The company entered the high-end computer market with the introduction of the VAX models in the 1970s. Ted Johnson, (HBS MBA ;58), a former View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

Project. ARF’s current Homecoming Initiative is raising money for four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU): Howard University, Florida A&M University, Spelman College, and Morehouse College. Additionally, in an ongoing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

the job to be done, you have to organize in a very different way than if you're just selling furniture. And hence, a company that is selling sub-par furniture to the low end of humanity, people we call college students. Nobody can copy... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons

Photography by Webb Chappell HBS students are already exceptionally skilled and accomplished people when they arrive at Soldiers Field. But perhaps their education here truly begins when they first understand — and are humbled by — what a... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

is considering launching a COVID relief van program to help carry oxygen and basic medicines to those in need. MAY 20 Students Fight COVID was started by 250+ MBA/MS 2023 admits from across the world, including HBS, with the aim to fight... View Details

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

of their employees, their communities, and society as a whole.” AUGUST 10 MBA Student Association Co-Presidents Annie Plachta (MBA 2021) and Caleb Bradford (MBA/MPP 2021) recently asked HBS faculty to sign a “Juneteenth Case Pledge,”... View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

university storage facility, benefits from student energy. They buzz about the expansive lab space, which is stocked with 3D printers, circuit board builders, and a wall full of electronic parts and wires. Two other sections of the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

allowing successive HBS educators and students the opportunity to study the work of the preeminent advertising photographers of the day. HBS’s broadly related collecting efforts did not go unobserved. “Art and industry, human relations... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

documents trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005 using data on more than a thousand schools. Such endowments have generally performed well over this time period, with... View Details