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Schlesinger Library Archives Collections - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Archives at the Schlesinger Library, documents the various stages of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration and includes records of the Training Course in Personnel, the Management View Details

28 Apr 2020
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A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

Jiyoon Han (MBA 2021) is getting a taste of what it’s like to be a case protagonist—learning how to pivot while measuring unforeseen challenges against new opportunities. When news broke in March about how COVID-19 would affect the Harvard View Details

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

the Aldrich classrooms on the Harvard Business School campus where other people's ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges—a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives—score the plans on criteria... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

07 Sep 2007
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Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

Summing Up How can business schools reprofessionalize management? The responses to this month's column can be characterized in several ways: 1) Business schools, particularly those regarded as being the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction 063, 132, 081 Field Work The field work apprenticeship... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Those ideas include Ely’s research showing that good intentions and occasional,... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

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From Classroom to Workplace - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice Images: 172, 157, 159 Women graduates of the View Details

December 1998
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Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck

A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France

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Joan Colligan Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University:... View Details

2019
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Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj

This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History

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01 Mar 2015
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The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events

Recent HBS Campaign Regional Events Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) greeted fellow alumni during the reception at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo. Margie Yang (MBA 1976) spoke during the evening’s program at The Peninsula Shanghai. Susan and Scott Hawkins (MBA 1982) shared a laugh... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library

Harvard Business School Archives The HBS Archives contain records that document the history of Harvard Business School, faculty, research, teaching, and the student experience. The collections date from the... View Details

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

education and expertise rooted in real-world experience, linking theory and practice to shape business practice and train business leaders. Nonprofit Strategy & Governance... View Details

05 Sep 2012
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Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

will the necessary management skills come? Medical schools? Business schools? Will joint degrees in medicine and business be necessary? If so, just how many students will be willing to engage in a long and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

As impact investing has emerged as a new, fast-growing category of private investing, so too has the awareness of the stark disparity between access to capital among small business owners. The Harvard View Details

20 Aug 2016
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The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery

Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a... View Details

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

Working at Harvard Business School Harvard Business School comprises a wide range of administrative departments and Initiatives. Explore an overview of each department and its role within the School.... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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The Business Environment in the 21st century

activities by business groups and leaders; helping business leaders organize around the sort of system-level issues discussed at the colloquium and establishing ongoing dialogue among multiple View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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