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18 Mar 2024

Diverse Perspectives: Black Women & Latinas at HBS

It's Women's History Month! Join us for a panel discussion highlighting Black females and Latinas at Harvard Business School. Hear about their different paths to HBS, their experiences, and what they plan to do next. Who runs the world?... View Details

William E. LaMothe

LaMothe enabled Kellogg to capitalize on the health food consciousness of the 80’s by introducing new products, and, in so doing, he continued Kellogg’s 41-year run of increased sales. He is credited with dramatically expanding Kellogg’s... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

04 Sep 2019
News

Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers

Just try to convert someone weaned on ERA—earned run average, a calculation of how many runs a pitcher allows per nine innings, and a long-favored way to evaluate efficacy—to FIP (fielding independent... View Details

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Software Environments via Conda - Research Computing Services

conda documentation . Accessing Conda on the HBSGrid You can load the conda package manager using the software modules system . Open a terminal on the HBSGrid and run module load anaconda You will need to do this after every login before... View Details

Barbara G. Proctor

agency into the second largest advertising firm run by an African-American by securing business from Jewel Foods, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and Alberto-Culver. View Details

Keywords: Services

Portrait Project

Tedde Tsang

to make the buses run faster. Trundling up, down, and around the city's iconic hills from downtown to hipster mecca to beachfront village, I saw that the freedom of movement enjoyed by San Franciscans, no matter their age, race, income,... View Details

Robert F. Bensinger

Bensinger, the last Brunswick family member to run the company, is credited with the company’s survival and prosperity. Taking the helm of the family company at the brink of the Depression, Bensinger embarked on a growth and... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

investors you pitch will be worried about abc. When you make your next hire, consider this role, or background, because they will help you avoid these pitfalls.” It’s an entrepreneur’s business and far be it from me to tell them how to View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Mar 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)

remember that I only got one. That’s how I ended up at HBS. I try hard to have an open-door policy and listen to everyone. I’m lucky if I have one good idea a year. I’m tapped out by May. It’s the people who are dealing with customers, View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Meg Stern

When I graduated from high school, I made a list of the things I wanted to do before I turned thirty. The list looked like this: Learn languages: French, Spanish, Hebrew. Live in Europe. Be the boss. Learn sports: skiing, tennis, running... View Details

10 Nov 2018
News

The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner

Ultramarathoner Eric Spector (MBA 1972) got a late start on the sport. As detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Spector started running while living in Manhattan, competing in his first New York City Marathon in 1979, but... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)

problem solving, and innovative thinking—I would have known much earlier that business was what I loved. During a business trip to England, I hopped on a plane to Lagos to see about bringing JA to Nigeria. I hadn’t been back since high school, and during that time a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1998
News

New Releases

practical solutions some have developed in response. Bradach explains that traditional chain enterprises comprise two organizational units: company and franchise. The company-owned unit is run on a military model - the superior exercises... View Details

Portrait Project

Nicole Hanrahan

When I tell people I want to run an employment program for homeless drug addicts, many think I'm absolutely crazy. However, I want to devote my career to building just such a business. My pre-MBA experience of providing job training to... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the elective course View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Entrepreneurship by country

related to entrepreneurship collected for dozens of countries. Navigate directly to the Data section to run custom reports for variables across countries over time. World Bank Entrepreneurship Database: data relating to business... View Details

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Stata and Maintaining Version Stability - Research Computing Services

features such as random-number generators (RNGs) to version number # . version # is used to allow old programs to run correctly under more recent versions of Stata and to ensure that new programs run... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Closing the Opportunity Gap

and education, followed by six months of apprenticeship at major area companies. “Our model is based on high support and high expectations,” Chertavian told the Boston Herald (September 7, 2004). Chertavian, who runs the four-year-old... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa Megliola-Zaikos (MBA 2000), founder and CEO... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Bloomberg: five useful shortcuts

Display list of previous 8 functions Type LAST and hit GO. Make selection from list to rerun a function. Add or remove news at bottom of panel Type NO and hit GO to toggle scrolling news on and off. Print Hit PRINT to print displayed screen or X [PRINT] to print... View Details

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