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Rohan Kekre

reasoning and quantitative tools to a set of public policy questions having first-order importance in the real world. After graduation I took a job as a management consultant at McKinsey in their New York office. I started in July 2008,... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

School's US Competitiveness Project. Because business leaders have a profound economic and moral stake in making that happen, Rivkin adds, "the most progressive of them are moving into hands-on, long-term partnerships with educators. That's what's really needed if... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

the Girl Scouts of the USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform to increase public awareness of the hundred-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2009
News

Back to School

2008, I decided to make the leap: I began the process of becoming a certified high-school math teacher. When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spoke to the HBS Club of Washington in October 2008, I introduced her, presented her... View Details

Keywords: Anthony Priest; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

members pursue innovative and practical research and course development, including through cross-disciplinary projects that bring new insights to complex issues, as exemplified by this recent work: “How Businesses Can Find ‘Hidden... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

important roles for a parent. Is It Really the Right Stuff? In 1979, writer Tom Wolfe captured the public imagination with his depiction of one of the most competitive professional environments in the world: the screening of American... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS

doubt my dream school. Nevertheless, when the moment came to apply to B-school, I did not feel ready. I was finding excuses to postpone the application like: “I am on an intense project with very limited time to craft my application.” ... View Details

21 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

and approaches for developing new consulting clients and leading consulting projects to maximize client value. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to work with Rich, whom I greatly respect not only for his business achievements, but also... View Details

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's proposed structure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2014
News

A Life Transformed

final exams, received a scholarship, and left for college." Parija attended BJB College, a state school with low fees, where he majored in economics and political science, graduating in 1974. He took a clerical job at a local Indian bank and enrolled in a master's... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to reassure the View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

expectations to businesspeople. He also published forecasts through syndicated newspaper columns and made public pronouncements on the future of the economy—including a notorious statement on the eve of the October 1929 stock-market crash... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

job. It shouldn’t matter that it’s not packaged in a degree of four years,” says Rewane, who was recently named a Social Impact Fellow by Gerson Lehrman Group Inc. Her enthusiasm for the project began in earnest at HBS, where she met her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

commercial buildings in the asset mix. Cities don't claim that office buildings, retail malls, or factories were built for the Games. Even Olympic housing is seldom successfully transformed into apartments or public housing once the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

provides a rich description of Enterprise Risk Management in action and shows how Hydro One executives arrive at a shared understanding of the risk profile of the company. In the narrative a diverse group of managers (the chief executive, the chief financial officer,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
Supplement

Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla

Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The... View Details

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15 Oct 2019
News

Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

that make achieving the agreement’s goals so difficult. “I wrote the case to better understand how so many of us view climate change as both a global threat and one of the most important issues facing business in the 21st century, and yet so little has been done about... View Details

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Kenny (MBA 2019), the director of strategy and projects at Carbon Capture Inc. She's describing the technology at the heart of the young company's ambitious decarbonization efforts. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck... View Details

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