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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
significant expansion, with visits to six top venture capital firms — a 20% increase from last year — offering students deeper insights into the evolving investment landscape. The four company tracks featured sixteen organizations,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
long-term growth. The plan that emerged redefined HCZ’s mission and mix of programs, created practices to carefully evaluate and track results, and defined a new organizational structure needed to support program expansion. Under the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
of past successes to predict that more successes are in store. The theory in use is that if you find someone with a track record and with the right-stuff attributes, then he or she can successfully manage the new business venture. But in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
voice in our global economy. One small example: with 92 million Facebook users, India is on track to become the largest Facebook user market by 2016, outgrowing the US with 152 million users. The scale of India’s challenges is also... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
the time of writing. Discussion expanded beyond the case to include the current landscape of emissions tracking and the range of regulatory and ratings agencies involved. Students discussed if car manufacturers should be held accountable... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
versus customer B. My experience on boards of directors and in work with leadership teams is that “vision” discussions are fun, and quarterly financial results are tracked closely. But despite much talk about big data, the customer... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
diversification of assets, managed through a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETF’s) that track market indexes. “It’s a great way to invest cheaply in a diversified basket of stocks, bonds, and other securities,” says Viceira. If... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
website and is unaware of the act. When a purchase is made on the merchant's website, the cookie-stuffer is credited. (Hogan allegedly used this method with eBay.) Adware: A program tracks a user's activity on a merchant's website and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
with a good track record but an "outsider" with limited knowledge of the business. The cycle is begun again. Sound familiar? It should. It's unfolding in two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Merrill Lynch and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
solve crimes after they occur. They are phenomenal at that, as in the way they tracked down the Lockerbie perpetrators, to cite one case. That's a very different role from preventing terrorist attacks before they occur, which is their top... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
referrals.” The next stage of building a diverse team is considering the various stages of the applicant funnel and being intentional about hiring. “We always track race and gender all the way through our hiring process to make sure that... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
one of seven alumni on the SBPI’s leadership team, to administer the program on a regular basis. This entails recruiting alumni volunteers, promoting the program to the business community, organizing volunteer training, and tracking every... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
these drugs, known as GLP-1 agonists, amounts to so much more than media buzz. In just a few years, they have ignited a wave of change that has transformed Novo Nordisk into Europe’s most valuable public company. The seismic shift is on View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Fitbit’s suite of products allowed users to track the number of steps taken, calories burned, and heart rate activity. Fitbit devices were marketed to individual consumers as well as corporate wellness programs and employers. Though... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact New Venture Competition Announces 2023 Social Enterprise Track Semifinalists 22 Feb 2023 In... View Details
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International Applicants | MBA
Student Experience Learn more about our resources for international students. F-1 STEM Optional Practical Training The new STEM academic track qualifies international students for a total of 36 months of work authorization in the U.S.... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
constantly: POM and Service Management,” he states. “Ordering 500 Kindles, shipping them halfway around the world, getting them, intact, through customs and to schools way off the beaten track — that could be a Roy Shapiro case. And from... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
tracks and attract more candidates to our campus.” In October, she hosted a joint HBS/MIT recruitment talk that attracted Czapski. “I really liked the types of projects they were working on,” says Czapski. “They have a huge database of... View Details
Keywords: Technology