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01 Oct 2001
News

Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch

sponsored by Section NG that was held on campus last April to benefit Summer Search Boston (SSB). A nonprofit organization, SSB provides scholarships for summer programs to high-school students who demonstrate strength of character and... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Benjamin Story

In Los Angeles, Mickey Mouse casts a long shadow. While majoring in theater at UCLA, Ben Story got a touch of "Disney magic" when a vice president of the firm helmed "one of the best classes I took:" a course in theme... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Ink: The Three-Step Startup

For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the View Details

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

01 Mar 2006
News

MD/MBA Program Launched

will produce “a new generation of leaders in health care.” Graduates of the program, whose enrollment will increase over time, will be encouraged to practice medicine before becoming senior executives in hospitals, health-care... View Details

Keywords: MD/MBA joint-degree program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

You're Better Than Your Job Search by Marc Cenedella (MBA '98) and Matthew Rothenberg (Downtown Bookworks) This guidebook provides easy-to-understand best practices and tools to help keep a job search on... View Details

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

execute business strategy to bring positive change in the world. For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out how to continue meeting the goal I outlined in my HBS essay while working in a business facing role. Some soul... View Details

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Examiner shares are highest for non-US applicants and in electronics, communications, and computer-related fields. However, most of the variation is explained by firm-specific variables, with the largest patent applicants having high examiner shares. Moreover, a large... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2007
News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief View Details

James O. McKinsey

McKinsey founded the largest management consulting firm in the world. His greatest contribution was focusing attention on budgeting as a major instrument of management. He asserted the need for continued education for future View Details

Keywords: Services

02 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Preparing for a career in investment banking

on evaluating a firm to name a few. The majority of people I met were people that I found from searching class cards. I am infinitely grateful for all the people who spared me their precious time. By the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

Networking Opportunities HBS students have access to a network of more than 35,000 HBS alumni who have agreed to help them in their job searches on a year-round basis. MBA Career Services also works with Alumni Relations, View Details

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India - Industry specific research

companies (an online directory with advanced search capabilities can be purchased) and includes presentations on initiatives (e.g.: green IT, diversity) and tables of contents and executive summaries of... View Details

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

02 Apr 2019
News

Remembering William Wilder

Gundy, becoming executive vice president/EVP in 1961 at the age of 38, and six years later president and chief executive. Under his leadership, the firm played a dominant role in financing Canada’s big... View Details

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism:... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

helped to organize the business and put together a strong board," explains Cox, who has been a director of the company for nearly three decades. "When the chief executive died in a plane crash, we led the View Details

Carissa Bryce Christensen

Carissa Bryce Christensen is the founder and CEO of BryceTech LLC, an analytics and engineering firm serving clients with deep tech-enabled missions, including NASA and the US Department of Defense. Known for driving strategy with... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence;#10;#Aviation & Aerospace;#17;#Defense, Military, & Space

31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

Working PapersCoupled Search Processes: Why Is It So Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters? Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract Organizational design affects performance via coupled View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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