HBS - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2004
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Survey Spotlights HBS Experience

Although HBS is widely known as a training ground for leaders of established firms, a new survey reveals that many MBAs are entrepreneurs too, with nearly half (49 percent) launching their own companies at some point in their careers.... View Details

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

18 Mar 2008
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Election ’08, HBS Style

Barack and Hillary haven’t made it to the HBS campus this year, but that’s okay — last week, I dropped in on four pairs of first-year MBAs hoping to serve as co-presidents of the Student Association (SA). The candidates went head-to-head... View Details

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

01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment

called on. Now, talking in class without any knowledge was an HBS art form, and I was prepared to go on at length about a subject—pricing cars at GM—of which I had no knowledge. But suddenly I felt enraged and my inner voice said, "What... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

15 Dec 2011
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An HBS gift guide

football, repair capitalism Business lessons for a global century Chocolates for a cause Safe water for millions Nature belongs to everyone Capitalize on the network The world at home Quiet your mind (Images via the HBS Bulletin,... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

30 Aug 2023
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Know Your HBS Staff: Ted Petrosky

01 Oct 1997
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Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend

In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give special recognition to the gift... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class

Readers subscribing to the “Life is real! Life is earnest!” philosophy may not have been thrilled by my two-part blog entry on “classroom hijinks” at HBS (see here and here). But they will be happy to hear that during my first-ever... View Details

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

10 Oct 2023
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HBS Responds to the Attacks on Israel

MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR Dear members of the HBS community, I wanted to follow up on the message I joined with Harvard’s leadership in sending last evening, and on the statement issued by President Claudine Gay earlier today. Over... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Green Talk at HBS

Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2012
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Wang Papers to HBS

Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology invented by Dr. Wang helped... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Sep 2008
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HBS team wins big - and twice

06 Apr 2020
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An Interview with HBS Professor Tsedal Neeley

26 Jul 2023
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Know Your HBS Staff: Merrick Nelson

01 Dec 2016
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The Evolving HBS Campus

(photo by Susan Young) The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is the newest addition to the growing portfolio of facilities to support innovation and entrepreneurship, joining the Harvard i-lab, which opened in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up incubator which opened... View Details