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Sebastien D'Incau

understanding people." An accidental visit that turned into a calling In his senior year of college, Sebastien happened to be visiting friends in Boston, when on a whim, he signed up online to visit a class at HBS. "Truth be... View Details

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Alice Yang

skills to better understand how goods and services, including health care, do or do not get to the people who need them.” Alice's search led to the joint-degree program at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. “Never in my... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Porter Course Goes Abroad

Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) located in Riga, Latvia. For 2003, the list of potential partner universities has expanded to include more than fifteen schools in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. “There is a tremendous need around the world to View Details

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand business, but the growing... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) | MBA

approximately 8:00am-4:00pm (including morning discussion group meetings and all breaks). Occasionally, academic events will be scheduled into the evening. The schedule is not static and varies day to day. Joint Degree students may also have seminars in the evenings.... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such disagreements are the predictable outgrowth of a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

understanding of service quality, competition, and inventory, while developing a foundation for the exploration of mobile money by operations management scholars. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

and unemployment rates," the paper states. The researchers studied not only the program's effect on American jobs, but also its effect on innovation in general. "The bigger goal was to try to understand the impact of science and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

may not be illegal, but can cause enormous amounts of reputational damage.” A good code can also help workers do their jobs better. Most employees want to follow the rules and do the right thing, but may not understand how to comply with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Angels Conference Tackles Post-Pandemic Investing and Entrepreneurship The global pandemic has reshaped the world, and investors and founders are full of questions about the future of startups. To find... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

influencing the stakeholders making purchasing decisions Understand the importance of brand-building and the key components of an effective brand Build a media strategy across paid, earned, and owned channels Evaluate and identify growth... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

complicated organizations, which is as critical as understanding the purely managerial issues involved-if not more so," he notes. Similarly, Davis, Barnes, and Stevenson are teaching a new Executive Education program, Families in... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Thanks to the combined energy of over six hundred enthusiastic alumni, a dozen insightful HBS faculty members, and a score of respected experts, the 1997 Harvard Business School Global Alumni Conference, "Greater China: Myths, Realities,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative activity after settling with NPEs (or losing to them in court). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648 Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

goals, past research on these programs' impact has yielded mixed outcomes. Our goal is to understand why this might be the case. Design/Methodology/Approach: We rely on interview, archival, and longitudinal survey data to examine young... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell

goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group believes that View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

moving upmarket to challenge the industry leaders. They point out that Uber, commonly hailed as a disrupter, doesn’t actually fit the mold, and they explain that if managers don’t understand the nuances of disruption theory or apply its... View Details