Attraction - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

at 40 percent), proactively publicize the School's Web site and add new features that will attract more alumni to the site, and develop push technology allowing alumni to subscribe to specific online offerings. Last year, the committee... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

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George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About

attract a more diverse student body, retooling of the Advanced Management Program (AMP), an increase in international activities, and the establishment of a joint JD/MBA degree in collaboration with Harvard Law School. While Baker was... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

A Club for the Cosmos

It is also a way to attract sponsors—necessary because the group charges no membership fees. “Innovation and reinvention are imperative for everything we will do,” he says. “We will provide our members access to world-class resources,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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Erika Sanchez

With back-to-back degrees in engineering, it’s no surprise that Erika Sanchez was attracted to Boeing. “I presented technical solutions to management teams that had the authority to allocate funds,” Erika says. “I quickly learned that to... View Details

25 Mar 2024
Blog Post

DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change

Society, and Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), the Former Chief Sustainability Officer at Morgan Stanley. The chat, titled Inequality and Climate Change: Implications for Business Policy and Action, attracted 85 alumni and guests to the University... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Going For The Summit

women - has climbed well above the competition. With some two million visitors to its Web site each month, iVillage attracts more than twice as much traffic as its nearest competitor. "We've established a commanding lead," Carpenter... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

or strategic. Separately, two research assistants rated each response based on whether the respondent seemed like an attractive job candidate. Results showed that 77 percent of participants had chosen to humblebrag rather than disclose an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

York-based hedge fund must decide whether to invest in TravelCenters of America (TA), a recent spin-off from a U.S.-based real estate investment trust. The case confronts students with the question: To what extent is this spin-off opportunity View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Maura Sullivan

Maura Sullivan sees in HBS many of the same qualities that had attracted her to the U.S. Marine Corps. "Choosing the right branch of the armed services was easy," Maura says. "I liked the camaraderie, the discipline, the... View Details

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is compelling: a well-run fund can help a firm respond quickly to changes in markets and gain a better view of threats. In some cases, it can stimulate demand for a company's own products. And... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

must address a major design problem: Sophisticated investors have been gaming the system by applying specialized screening tools to scoop up the choicest loans with the lowest default rates, leaving less experienced investors with less View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

02 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy

are opportunities for large corporations to attract interest outside of the traditional MBA functions and into roles focused on energy and sustainability. Those roles can be hard to find for students, but they are very interested and... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

19 Oct 2021
News

In the Contest for Content

Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares As the founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) is establishing herself within the high-stakes contest to own the catalogs of music that View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Dec 2017
News

A Decent Place to Live

Humanity International. What attracted me there was this very simple and radical notion we have that everyone deserves a decent place to live. “If you think about it, home affects where you go to school, your education prospects. It... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates

exceptional leadership and service to the HBS community. Jill S. Schaeffer and Philip L. Terry were honored for cochairing this year's fifth annual HBS Cyberposium, a student-organized high-tech and new media conference. Held last February, the event View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

attractive, enduring business models, answering the question why some startups are valued at only 2x revenue while others are valued at 10x revenue and why some startups struggle to attract venture funding while others raise hundreds of... 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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