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26 Jul 2022
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Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the organization has helped connect over... View Details

19 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

illustrious company is a source of motivation to keep working hard and accomplish even more in the future.” Can you tell us about your current work? Pradhan: “I work as a technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) investor at TPG, a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

24 Apr 2014
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Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect

improving the city's wastewater service. In 1997, the Philippine government enlisted Ayala Corporation to assume control of the water and sewer systems of Manila's east zone, where more than 60 percent of the water was either lost or being stolen. Today, Ayala's Manila... View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

completion. In addition, the ERC has been involved in about thirty course development projects, for instance by searching for appropriate case sites for a faculty member, facilitating company contacts, or participating in European... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

27 Sep 2019
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HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

prairies west of Houston to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. THE BLUE-GREEN REVOLUTION Synthetic Genomics Inc., a private biotech View Details

14 Jan 2021
News

Better Than Cash

effectively, it was essential that all key public and private sector players work together to deliver payments digitally,” Goodwin-Groen says. “Those companies and governments that took action and can pay... View Details

22 Mar 2016
News

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

answering President Kennedy’s call to give back. He then transitioned to the private sector. “I’ve always been interested in how leadership leads to service,” says George, who served in senior executive positions at Honeywell and Litton... View Details

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

a higher price without raising its multiple. If the private equity firm wins the bidding contest, the profit model subsequently becomes a blueprint for managing the turnaround company and aligning View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1997
News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

Participants in both trips came back energized and full of excitement about opportunities in the region. "When in your life will you have the chance to visit the biggest high-tech companies in the Valley?" asked one student upon returning... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run impact on South Africa's economic growth and political stability. South African policymakers needed to decide what they wanted from the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

investors and those in the private sector would understand. “For those of us with a nonprofit background, we need to translate the things we have done when talking with companies who are hiring for roles in... View Details

Fast Answer

Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

What resources should I use to formulate a stock pitch? Research Topics Suggested Resources Company Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual... View Details

29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B companies have done in their attempts to improve marketing-sales coordination, including suggestions for future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

HBS network. Coaching & Advising We know that every student’s career journey is unique. That’s why we offer 1:1 support from trained Career Coaches and Student Advisors who can help guide students through the career search process from beginning to end. View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

essential part of their lifestyle. Restaurants are an important source of employment: the industry is the 2nd largest private employer in the US, employing over 15 million people in 2024, with over 60% of adults and 70% of millennials in... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile innovation: As e-commerce... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

1981) KORTENHORST and KORMI: The global energy transition involves the public and private sectors alike. Global R&D budgets for energy are growing, with 20 countries, including the United States, making commitments at the 2015 United... View Details

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is... View Details