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IT Strategy: Protecting HBS Information and Data Assets | Information Technology
sustainable process for remediations and risk reduction, allowing HBS to stay ahead of vulnerabilities now and into the future. While all the initial program objectives in the Strategic Plan were achieved, the team continues additional operational security efforts in... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
program that his organization is promoting to veterans as a way of anchoring and investing in their communities. “HeroHomes is like a Zillow.com for military vets. We find and educate the vets; we get them to the website, which is part of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
to believe that all things are possible and that your assets can be key differentiators in a sea of overachievers,” she says. “Determine what anchors you and leverage what sets you apart, and then go boldly into your future with... View Details
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Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
directly from HBS faculty, as more and more academics and practitioners began to question why results-driven thinking couldn’t be applied to the social sector. The core of Bridgespan’s strategy is anchored in knowledge: to capture and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
which offers outstanding networking opportunities, he adds. The School’s ever-evolving support for entrepreneurship is anchored by three priorities, according to Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), director of the Rock Center: to catalyze... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Cherian Kurien
term career? I am interning with Anhesuer-Busch InBev in Shanghai, China for the summer of 2014. I chose this opportunity to further anchor my understanding of international business. Firstly, the opportunity to be part of a highly... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets
many married, ambitious professionals face: maintaining a healthy marriage while pursuing independent careers. Geography Serves as an Anchor When it came time to launch their post-MBA lives, the Joyce couple had some complex choices to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
the Internet craze with Admart. “I just lost the prudence a businessman should have,” he confesses. “I wouldn’t have gone so deeply into it if the market hadn’t given us such crazy valuations. It was unreal.” Going forward, says Lai, “the Internet will be just an... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
the time,” she recalls. “We were watching the coverage unfold before the second plane hit, but we didn’t fully understand what was going on.” CNBC anchor Mark Haines was on air at the time. “I heard Mark saying that from the size and... View Details
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Tafadzwa Samushonga
mother demonstrated how to use that support responsibly,” Tafadzwa explains. “Remaining anchored in our community, she taught me to boldly pursue independence, so that I, too, would become better positioned to help others.” While... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on the University's 2007 Biomedical Accelerator Fund (also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
pineapple. Another optional day tour from Zanzibar was a snorkeling and deep-sea diving excursion. A 45-minute boat ride from our beachfront hotel led us to a spot where we anchored and swam or dove in a spectacular coral reef with... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Just south of Washington, DC, on the banks of the Potomac River, sits the Crow’s Nest, a rural 6,000-acre peninsula named for a three-masted schooner, The Crow, which anchored on its shores in the 1700s. Today, much of this land is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
pitfalls while fulfilling the promise.” Eventually, Bracaglia would like to start his own business from the ground up after gaining four or five years of management experience in an established enterprise. He anticipates a dynamism in his career that will remain View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
jewelry and furs to sweatshirts and school supplies,” quips the tall, affable, Charlestown, Massachusetts, native, who in 1991 left his job as general manager at Neiman Marcus in Texas to accept the challenge of “putting the Coop on track for the next one hundred... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
might be interested in ex-post (i.e., once there). Thus, consumers coming to the supermarket to buy daily staples (say, bread and milk) might be induced to also get expensive chocolate if they have to walk past the corresponding aisle anyway. Shoppers visiting a mall... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculine image. Hence, these jobs, too, are proving grounds for masculinity. By the same token, mainstream organizations should be able to disrupt such processes by instituting policies, practices, and norms that anchor people in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
will be replaced by Klarman Hall, a state-of-the-art convening center expected to open in 2018. Anchoring the southern edge of the green next to Spangler, Klarman will provide enhanced space and increased capacity for academic conferences... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
wife—the sustaining anchor to all these experiences. His excitement for their shared future and the next phase of his career is tempered by the sacrifices he’s seen and experienced on the front lines of public service. He is eager to... View Details