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Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School had a vision ... Bridging Growth across Continents: SE Summer Fellow Kartik Sahni (MBA/MPP 2025) Kartik Sahni 24 Jul 2024 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their... View Details

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component of our national security and, ultimately, our energy independence." Ilya Minevich MBA 2013 | Network Effect "As business leaders, we can directly impact the progress of initiatives and solutions to address environmental needs."... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

principles and apply them to my research and daily life. In terms of leisurely reads, I've included The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, a captivating thriller that promises an engaging escape. This suspenseful novel follows the... View Details

06 Jun 2024
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How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Jun 2016
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit,... View Details

23 Mar 2015
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Business Icons Porter and Rivkin on Inequality: ‘It Undermines The American Dream’

17 Mar 2011
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Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

As Japan continues to come to grips with the devastating toll exacted by the earthquake within its borders, the aftershocks are just beginning to be felt within the global economy. Here, several Harvard Business School faculty members... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

18 Jul 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to... View Details

24 Nov 2008
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Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that "conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

25 Feb 2020
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

are restructuring the economy and changing the nature of competitive advantage.” “The computer scientists and engineers developing AI don’t necessarily speak the language of business,” Lakhani adds. “HBS is training leaders to be fluent... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Apr 2020
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A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

Jiyoon Han (MBA 2021) is getting a taste of what it’s like to be a case protagonist—learning how to pivot while measuring unforeseen challenges against new opportunities. When news broke in March about how COVID-19 would affect the Harvard View Details

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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

arts and culture; business at the base of the pyramid; CSR; community and economic development; education; environment; human services; impact investing; international relief; nonprofit consulting; and philanthropy. Details for Students... View Details

May 2013
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Transport Corporation of India (D): Business Development across Divisions

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi

Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business Divisions; Sales; Transportation Industry; India

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06 Oct 2014
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Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

These conversations and the ever-changing art had a huge impact on him. In 1994, Shibayama went to work as the managing director of Sotheby’s in Japan, even training as an auctioneer. His time at Sotheby’s gave him a lot of experience... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Government, Business and Making China an Educational Powerhouse Since the 1980s

By: Geoffrey Jones, Yuan Jia-Zheng, Yuhai Wu and Qianru Wang

This article examines how China successfully built a highly competent K-12 education system since the 1980s achieving high literacy rates, broad basic education and gender equality. It argues that this success was driven by a strategy of blending public and private... View Details

Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Literacy; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Education Industry; China

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07 Sep 2007
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Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

Summing Up How can business schools reprofessionalize management? The responses to this month's column can be characterized in several ways: 1) Business schools, particularly those regarded as being the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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Driving Towards a Disruption?

By: Willy Shih and William Noble

As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston

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How to Shift from Selling Products to Selling Services

By: Doug J. Chung

Only a few years ago, most software companies sold seat licenses for their products, charging customers on the basis of head count. But today, software is typically provided using cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) models that charge customers fees for... View Details

Keywords: SaaS Business Models; Sales; Management; Business Model; Salesforce Management; Applications and Software; Customer Relationship Management

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