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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

About About The global financial crisis brought to the forefront of academic and policy discussion the question of how best to ensure the stability of the financial system.... View Details

27 Mar 2024
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Video: Inspirational Women in Business

Debbie Lovich, partner at Boston Consulting Group. Her case focused on how you balance a demanding career, as well as commitments at home. Aastha Bhardwaj: Cynthia Carroll of Anglo American Mines in South... View Details

18 Nov 2002
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Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

Do you see a marked difference in the types and degrees of ethical breaches occurring in the past, compared to more recently? Paine: Business ethics, of course, is as old as business itself, but formal... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA

single supplement. Cost & Payment Course Fee IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student loan, a need-based HBS scholarship, or a... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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From Chalkboards to Chatbots

Artwork/animation by Greg Meeson/hitandrunmedia.com; shutterstock.com Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, becoming an integral part of how we live, work, and interact. It is therefore critical for current and... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

escalated to the level of assault, as Dixon alleged in the Times reporting. She went home and told her roommate what had happened, then scrawled out a letter of resignation and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

24 Jun 2021
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Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

of his employees. It’s also delivered by way of a program that creates access to earned wages before payday to alleviate the need for payday loans, a commitment to annual wage... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

trading. As a result, the firm embarked upon a major growth strategy in 1971, with Fisher as one of its leading architects. From 1970 to 1983, revenues increased from $22 million to just over $470 million. In addition to supporting Morgan... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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5.1 Information Technology - MBA

this policy are invited to raise those questions with an appropriate faculty member or the MBA Program. Standards for Electronic Communication & Interaction HBS is committed to freedom of expression. All... View Details

09 Oct 2001
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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life is heaven, or as near heaven... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

28 Feb 2023
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Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, examines an alternative route for American teenagers and companies alike: The apprenticeships popular in many European countries. Looking closely at a successful US apprentice... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2006
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Are We Ready for Self-Management?

C. J. Cullinane identified the most important requirement for self-management success as "conviction and commitment of top management." As Peter Johnson put it, "True and genuine... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

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Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

of work. You Might Want to Read 21 Nov 2024 How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters Jess Hopper 07 Nov 2024 Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club Sara Ballantyne , Ben Buchheim-Jurisson , Clif Luber & Daniel Ackeret 11 Oct 2024... View Details

20 Aug 2008
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The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

demand novel commitments from business are creating new standards of conduct for even those actors least willing to change. Finally, though less obviously, there is a palpable thirst among people around the... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

06 Jan 2021
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

difficult decision but I knew that going all-in on social entrepreneurship—rather than leaving it for nights and weekends—would be the path of least regret. HBS financial aid made the decision to commit to... View Details

30 Mar 2020
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The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by cabinet doors slamming and ice makers grinding in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects - MBA