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- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private investment into the country. While there I analyzed... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
the best talent from top business schools and develops them into high-caliber global general managers for Samsung Group companies. At Samsung GSG, one learns essential management skills by working across diverse geographies, industries... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
will provide students small-group learning experiences that are by design immersive, experiential, and field-based. FIELD complements the School’s case method of participant-centered learning, and creates a rigorous new platform for students to develop View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
tax" is one that guarantees a socially desirable distribution of the tax burden, which is of course shaped by the views and beliefs of a country. Ane Damgaard Jensen: Overall, people have different views of what a flat tax is and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the operating decisions of the waste-to-energy firm. Our analyses suggest that if the social planner's objective is to maximize landfill diversion, offering a subsidy as a per kilowatt-hour for electricity is more cost effective, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
As we begin the new academic year, I welcome the opportunity to share the exciting initiatives and activities under way at Harvard Business School. All our efforts are designed to pursue with excellence the School’s mission: to educate leaders who make a difference in... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his wife, Renee E. Ring, COO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards worked and the skills needed to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the... View Details
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- Web
OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog
resources that companies have access to (human, financial, and social capital) as well as how they allocate those resources to create advantage. Ownership models can be seen as solutions to specific strategic problems, such as scaling a... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
a rapidly changing landscape that presents increasingly complex management challenges, leadership skills are even more essential to a venture's success, Pisano said. "A good business model is necessary but not sufficient," he stated.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
the traditional skills of making sixty-second television ads are challenged by the growth of digital or participatory media? How do you manage a client when TV, newspapers, and magazines are being attacked by online presences?" One... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
very first thoughts that I do remember was, I am not needed," she says. "When I realized that automation had done away with my job 15 years sooner than I thought it ever possibly could, I realized that it's not that I'm not any good, it's that my View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
in social structure, in economic strategy, and in government" A: You could see the social fabric wearing thin in a number of places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
that make your job more complex than if you were a CEO in a less “hot-button” industry? Absolutely. Increasingly, we need two licenses to operate: one from our host government and the other a social license from affected communities. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details