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Brittany Williams
those skills and advance more personal interests. “I’ve always benefited from mentors, and now I want to mentor others.” Her personal goal: start a nonprofit mentoring program “to get under-represented minorities View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
who organizes the subgroup's activities, be it a Kane County Cougars minor league baseball game or a Chicago Shakespeare Theatre performance. Baskin and Mott liken the SIGs to “wetting a fingertip to see which way the wind is blowing” —... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
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Paul Lenehan
In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting.... View Details
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Julio Cedeno
"And I realized that advancing at Chevron would mean even more long-distance." Julio continued exploring his options by participating in Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit that helps underrepresented minority... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
thirty counselors (many of whom are HBS alumni) to help students with their job search, from self-assessment to résumé writing. “It’s a terrific program,” she says. “It will be interesting to see if it results in higher long-term job... View Details
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
Oberholzer-Gee saw in TrapGuard, being marketed for the first time to plumbers in Philadelphia, an interesting way to better understand the link between trust and diffusion of new products. With Victor Calanog, a doctoral student at the... View Details
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Ravi Belani
out of my environment – get out of the Valley – so that I could reflect on what I had learned and on where I wanted to go.” Harvard’s large class sizes were also attractive. “The beautiful thing about HBS is that because of its size and quality, every View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
TripAdvisor. Brand Trump has been extended to other categories, from steaks, to education, to apparel. Not all of these ventures have succeeded. Few guests see the competencies of a good hotelier as relevant to designing distinctive quality suits. But, for a View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Alaskan Native communities at the time. A key question that interested Alsan and the researchers at Stanford was whether the representativeness of the study mattered for actual prescribing and use of new medicines. The group consulted... View Details
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
where big deals are available—Japan and South Korea—are highly competitive and tend not to be friendly towards foreign firms. The high-growth markets of Southeast Asia generally offer smaller targets or minority stakes in large companies.... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Practitioner’s Guide is targeted at young accounting PhD job seekers looking for teaching and research positions, we thought it contained interesting advice that could help out many job-seekers. We asked Rouen about his job tips in this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of... View Details
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
is a Partner at ABRY, and Gerardo Espinoza (MBA 1990) is the Executive Director of LEAF. Scaling the Model We are excited for this course to be the beginning of a long and productive partnership between the HBS Impact Investment Fund and BIPOC-led and -owned... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
When most people think of a company's organization chart, they put the chief executive officer at the top of the pyramid. But those with an interest in corporate governance know that's not correct. After all, the CEO reports to the board... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for example, climate risk,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
that, in his own words, was “a bit of a news junkie household.” Surrounded by stacks of publications like The Wall Street Journal, as a teenager he developed a keen understanding of macroeconomic terms—an interest that grew as he later... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
program’s 2020 annual report sums it up best: “Many nonprofits serve minorities in their communities, and the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized a fresh look at who and how they serve clients who need help. We at Community Partners... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
consumption. As John Friedery put it, "I believe that markets will regulate consumption ...." Suman Das opines that "The world is a very resilient place." "Relatively minor lifestyle changes can lead to huge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett