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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mark Cicirelli
nights researching, writing business plans, and using a lot of caffeine. My startup experience taught me big and small lessons about myself. First, I realized I still love gadgets and want to be around technology. More important, whether... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Pacific Lake Partners cofounder Jim Southern (MBA 1983). Some 2,400 alumni and guests gathered on campus in October for fall reunions, which included presentations on the science of happier spending, leadership lessons from the musical... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
result is Heeks’s new book, The Natural Advantage, which lays out seven organic farming-derived principles that visiting executives learn during stays at Magdalen Farm. Lessons include the importance of drawing energy from “clean... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
bees and honeycomb right into the classroom. On Price’s wish list: a life-size hive replica on wheels, a “beeliner” of sorts that will bring the lessons to more kids. Wherever the experience occurs, the mission remains constant: “I want... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
estate development and business investment. Having studied architecture before transitioning to urban and African-American studies in my undergraduate program, it was a relief to discover that developers, not architects, actually build buildings – a View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Profile
Frank Mycroft
"At HBS, there's such a diversity of industries very different from what I'm used to: finance, consulting, clean energy, health care, etcetera," says Frank. "If I can see how these other industries work, I can bring those View Details
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
by case protagonists including leading industry figures. Senior executives from the industry will be in class to discuss the case and offer practical perspectives on lessons learned from the case. Out-of-class review sessions are offered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
Dell EMC merger deal closed in September, the company’s president suggested that they would be more “thoughtful and careful” in their use of noncompetes. EARN’s efforts against Dell EMC are ongoing, and Johnson plans to use the lessons... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
shared certain traits. Panelists recalled difficult situations from their own careers, trying to stay on course while adjusting to particular circumstances. As the action went back and forth, the audience listened and questioned the pros, absorbing View Details
- Portrait Project
Seth Cohen
rather than resumés, have uplifted and inspired me more than 200 words can describe. My resumé is important. But it is only a small piece of who I am and the values I uphold. I may enter a profession that prefers: bullet points credentials But I hope to always remember... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
young men from low-income backgrounds who have been diverted from the court system, often as part of a plea agreement. Students must live at the locked Reset facility and take lessons in academics, career development, and developing... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
Along the way, the students are learning lessons that their classroom experience has perhaps only hinted at. “It’s one thing to learn in a case study environment,” said senior lecturer Kristin W. Mugford, who helped launch the class with... View Details
Keywords: retail
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
These are not short view real estate traders. Key Lessons What can we learn from these two projects, joined in common purpose but separated by 10,000 kilometers, Islam and Buddhism, and 70 inches of annual rainfall? What is the urban... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
into outdoor gear. He builds up a worldwide supply chain by recruiting people who want to gamble that there is a customer need not being met by polyester. NB: For prospective entrepreneurs, what are the key lessons to be learned here?... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
government to say, in effect, "We did this, it works, it is competitive," and the government then offers them the opportunity to institutionalize whatever the lessons were, said Khanna. "Many of the spaces have done just... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
exposition of his own role in, and the cautionary lessons of, recent history. One such lesson would seem to be that citizens must demand — and government and corporations must create systems that allow for —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
reactors. Business management students are learning the lessons of Japan'scontinuing recovery from the double-disaster earthquake and tsunami.Photo: iStockPhoto Teaching And Learning Devastated but rebuilding, the Tohoku region is a... View Details