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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
model seems to be catching on. In the first run, Goldbank attracted over twenty thousand bids for products such as brand-name electronics, cosmetics, golf equipment, and automobiles, racking up $500,000 in sales. In the second round, the... View Details
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Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
our programs in India and Boston; they wanted very much to come to an on-campus program but had to wait a bit. WHO WAS MOST ATTRACTED TO VIRTUAL PROGRAMS? Pre-pandemic, some executives, especially women with young children, had been... View Details
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Funa Maduka
Importance of educating leaders "The biggest weakness I saw in nonprofits," Funa says, "was in management education. I saw many managers with good ideas, but not the skills for executing them." Attracted to HBS'... View Details
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Benjamin Story
Buzz Lightyear attraction in Disneyland Paris, and as a producer within Disney's virtual-reality technology group. "On one level, we were creating a fully-functioning simulation for a new attraction, the Radiator Springs Racers,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963)—experiential learning has been incorporated into 11 extended field courses in the Elective Curriculum this year, attracting about two-thirds of the Class of 2016. Six of these courses involve... View Details
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Diane Esber
knew it was the school I wanted; in fact, it was the only one I applied to," says Dianne. Three things especially attracted her: the campus, the classroom experience and section life. "Most business schools just have a few... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
groups attract the necessary financial investments. “There is no blueprint, as every member is at a different place,” observes Goodwin-Groen. “Our role is to help create opportunities for investment in this sector.” One of the biggest... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
business, he just didn't know when or how. "Dad was good about exposing me to business-never pressuring me into it but always making it seem attractive and interesting," he recalls. After becoming a star basketball player at Yale as an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
booms now being deployed in the Gulf and in the Dalian oil spill in China. Opflex was conceived when oil-contaminated flood waters threatened to shut down Cellect's upstate New York plant in 2006. The spongy green, reusable Opflex was later reformulated to repel water... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made their start-up pitches to a... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
leadership? Quansoo teed up the question nicely. “At some point, this could become a problem attracting the employees Microsoft wants to attract It is refreshing to see a corporation’s leadership actually... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
(For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a serious deterrent to attracting businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
its own inventory. Today, Amazon is a classic example of “platformization”: The company grew from an online bookstore into a vast technological hub that provides logistics and advertising to third-party retailers and public cloud services underlying much of the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
Highly Diversified Manufacturing For highly diversified manufacturing companies recruiting for LDPs, Renee recommends companies consider joining the Manufacturing Panel held in the fall as a way to attract candidates. While there are... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
pitching. Her 2014 paper on the topic produced headlines: Investors prefer attractive men. Even when the content of the pitches—as observed both in lab experiments and in the field—was the same, attractive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
organizations fosters better problem-solving, innovation, and thoughtful strategic planning. Furthermore, studies have shown that talented candidates seek out diverse work environments. Overcoming unconscious bias in your hiring has a ripple effect of building an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. Extremely attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Paul Lenehan
In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting.... View Details
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Patrick Akl
appreciate the benefits of diversity,” says Patrick. “HBS attracts people from different cultures and backgrounds; its cases are truly global in scope and reach.” The case method also surfaces the best aspects of diversity. “Because... View Details