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- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
and final year of the joint degree, I can say that the program has far exceeded my expectations in helping me prepare for a career as a leader in sustainability. The first-year MPA-ID curriculum combines rigorous training in graduate... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
better than polished ones, as subjects are far more willing to critique your work when it looks like it isn’t finalized, allowing us to get more raw feedback. Between each conversation we would tinker with our products or services to keep... View Details
- 14 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned at SVMP
both himself and the listener. Isabella Carbonell SVMP was a truly unforgettable experience. The faculty members, in particular, were really incredible. They made every single student in the classroom engaged in the case studies we discussed - even when the topics... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
control surface on a boat or aircraft" (e.g., a rudder on an ocean liner) to control or alter the direction of a very large craft (e.g., the ocean liner itself). How do you change the direction of an enormous ship like the Queen Mary? The rudder itself is View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a ways off. But as he watched innovations like battery storage and solar drive sharp increases in demand, that clean-energy future didn’t seem so far away any longer. “We are moving off fossil fuels at a clip faster than anybody, even... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
a year. My experience has far exceeded my expectations. Meeting active volunteers from across graduation years—people I might not have met if we didn't happen to be on the same reunion cycle—has been particularly rewarding. It has given... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
two-thirds are still going to western Europe, where typically they are in an enclave of other American students, speaking English, learning from an American professor; and it’s pretty far from the immersive, perspective-changing... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester
the dialog into a single stream conclusion. Obvious perhaps, but also far harder to do than it sounds. I’ve caught myself suffering from delayed-response syndrome a few times, where the pieces don’t quite fit until a couple minutes later,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Dance Dance Revelation
directors? If you don’t fall, you’re not trying hard enough: When was the last time we encouraged our employees to push an idea so far that their results or recommendations seemed outlandish? And how can we make them feel safe enough to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Voice for Women Leaders
minister; a number of the women have come to power as legacy leaders after their husbands or fathers have been assassinated, or been in office. Obviously in countries like the Nordic countries, where you have far more equal systems, if... View Details
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
trips are worth it. "We're showing that business travel matters for innovation, but it only matters if two firms' locations are either culturally or temporally far away from each other." The study offers him an answer: Yes, with an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the completion of the Human Genome... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
the president and the CEO. “We were tiny, we were $4 billion in assets, a couple of hundred people. But I look at Vanguard [today], it's a thousand times as big as when I joined. And it's a far better company. Most companies that grow... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
where it could be bridged. But if you walked too slowly, you might stay close to your constituents, but you would have been very far away from the other side. Managing internal decision making, which often consists of shaping internal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
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Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report
Conventional Wisdom tag RGE Blog During Women’s History Month, it’s become a tradition for the Race, Gender and Equity Initiative to reflect on how far women have come, and how far there is still yet to go.... View Details
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
Intern at Aurora Flight Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “I was looking for an opportunity where I could use some of the skills I’d learned so far at HBS in terms of [fundamental] business acumen and apply them in an environment that... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
drives accountability in any industry,” observes Gehl. “Final-Five Voting is less about changing who gets elected and far more about changing the incentives governing the behavior of those in office. It’s about the benefits of healthy... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Hinrichs and his Pentagram team roll up their sleeves and work together with Kahn and others at Muzak to craft the final logo: a sleek, curvy m inside a circle. But Muzak’s transformation goes far beyond a fresh look. “The company needed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
The timing is an unfortunate coincidence. Far from a response to any poll, the decision to include GMAT scores as one piece of an applicant's portfolio is based on systematic analysis of data gathered over the past ten years. It has to do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
working closely with faculty and doctoral student mentors, exchanging ideas over meals, attending lectures by distinguished business scholars, and sampling case method learning in sessions taught by HBS faculty or doctoral students. "The program has really gathered... View Details