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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
D^3, getting the labs up and running will be key. For our educational programs, we’re now ready to leverage the space we’ve created for curricular innovation in the Required Curriculum and to look at how we might better support... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
time, when it comes to day-to-day activities, her hands-on approach sets the stage. Before SHI expands into any new market, Lee runs the new operation to ensure that it gets off on the right track. She frequently meets with customers to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership
transition from the workforce into a hectic RC (first) year. I subsequently joined LASO's leadership team as the VP of Career Development and helped plan our annual Adelante Conference. With my classmate’s encouragement, I decided to run... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Most of us tend not to think of capitalism as a moral system. The prevailing view of the free market, among laypeople and economists alike, is that it's one step removed from the law of the jungle. But the fact is that capitalism has always had an explicit moral... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Family Business Club
businesses and have run their own family businesses prior to HBS. They are also a great resource for students at HBS. While most members intend to return to their family businesses in some capacity in the future (board member, operating... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
wanted to go back to Brazil because at that time the country was really booming," he says. He was soon put in charge of developing the bank's leasing company. During his 10-year career at Unibanco, he quickly rose through the company, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Bridgette Slater
is where my roots are, where my family is, and the land to which I feel most spiritually connected. It is a special place full of tight-knit community and Southern hospitality – plus you can’t go for more than 10 minutes without running... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
we communicate with our customers has begun to shift. Paige Peterson Sales Manager, Western US at Coravin, Inc. As a consultant running a boutique management and technology consulting practice, I have already started applying what I have... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
time for family activities. "I've eliminated most of my overnight trips," he notes, "and I try to arrive home on weeknights in time for dinner." His involvement in athletics these days is limited to running four to five miles on weekends... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
firm had generally become identified with a stem family or families and its . . . dynastic alliances.” 7 While Augustine Heard & Co. had many partners over the years, these close familial relations were critical to the running of the... View Details
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Ellen Mahoney | About
University, where she contributes as a member of a variety of committees and task forces. Ellen’s previous experience at Harvard University includes running a career and professional development office that served Harvard’s 12,000... View Details
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Emily Schlichting
participating in the joint degree MBA/MPP program with HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Why the joint degree? "If you're running a health care business, you can't succeed without understanding government policy. If... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
of delivering effective patient care. Then you need to make sure that the incentives physicians face do not run counter to their using the most effective approach for a given patient. Making all of this happen may require physicians to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
ventures. This course also introduces participants to the idea that entrepreneurs run structured experiments to validate ideas and refine business strategy. Participants work through real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs across a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Transitioning to Product Management at HBS
plethora of tech-focused courses in EC year), to student clubs (the Tech Club is ones of the largest student clubs and does a phenomenal job organizing an annual tech conference and treks to tech companies on both coasts and many in between), to the numerous programs... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
serving as vice chairman before leaving the firm in 2005. "I went from being a junior person to running a large business in what seemed like a nanosecond," he says. "And suddenly more people were watching what I did, and I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel