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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

percent have been placed in or found jobs in the retail and hospitality sectors, earning at least twice the minimum wage on average. By 2019, its target goal is to train 25,000 unemployed youth annually. “We want to write the playbook for... View Details

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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

customer lifetime value (LTV), customer-base analysis, and cohort dynamics to inform strategic decision-making. 2. Leveraging Data for Customer Growth: The course explores how firms use data-driven insights for segmentation, personalization, and View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
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HBS Online Economics for Managers

Gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy, whether you are an aspiring marketing professional, strategy consultant, or entrepreneur, preparing for an MBA, or just looking to contribute more to business decision making. Program Dates: January... View Details

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya

Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). Kenya National Bureau of Statistics News Factiva Useful for: targeted news search... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery

classmates in Professor Steven Rogers’s course—Moskowitz, Mike Lloyd, Nimi Katragadda, RJ Price, Stephen Schleicher, and Bharat Kilaru—started planning the company in February and were able to launch in three months. In that time, they used their $5,000 in FIELD 3... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

employees are asked to input their desired annual income in retirement. If they are not sure, the recommended target to maintain one's standard of living is around 70 percent of your annual income earned in the last few years of your work... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 07 Aug 2019
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HBS Online Financial Accounting

Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making. Program Dates: August 7, 2019 - October 2, 2019 View Details

08 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Meet The Aerospace and Aviation Club

inquiries: Justin Oliveira (joliveira@mba2017.hbs.edu). On February 11th, 2017, the Aerospace and Aviation Club, in collaboration with the Transportation, Infrastructure, and Logistics Club, will host the second annual Moving the Future Conference. The 2016 conference... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

07 Dec 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting company that View Details

09 Oct 2019
News

Building a Tradition of Giving

deeper philanthropic engagement. From there, his giving has followed a familiar trajectory, according to Inside Philanthropy (paywall): Driven by his own personal inspiration, Sternlicht’s giving has become increasingly targeted on... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Marriage, Inc.

The census figures tell the story: In the 35-plus age bracket, there are 28 million single women but only 18 million single men. For today’s mature single woman looking to get hitched, the approach must be proactive, methodical, and View Details

Keywords: marriage; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Personal Services

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are

recommendations. Be transparent about your hiring process One of the biggest stressors for students in a job search is managing the gray area. Are companies on my target list still hiring? I see a job posting online, but is the role... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Recruiting Full-Time Employees | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS, or with one of more than 82 HBS Alumni Clubs and Associations worldwide. Order a resume book to help you identify students who fit your candidate profile and better target outreach efforts. More About Recruiting INITIATIVES focus on... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

for alleged patent violations, and it seems they do so regardless of whether patents were infringed on or not. NPEs are well aware that with intellectual property, the idea space is nebulous—which can lead to ambiguity that needs to be judged by courts. But for a firm... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

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Danelle Radney

Minnesota Christian groups “into one organization with centralized governance so that we could leverage our resources together.” She had already turned a summer merchandising internship at Target – “where I was the youngest intern, at... View Details

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Diagnostic The portfolio diagnostic assesses whether any current or potential innovations, such as new ideas or acquisition targets that produce appealing innovations, can be deployed in a way that successfully meets the needs of a... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

27 Jan 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in the Music Industry

directly with the artists that make the music we love to listen to. The kind of companies I was targeting don’t recruit on campus, because they’re too small and don’t have a lot of funding. So I knew that it would take me longer to... View Details

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Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting

onboard recently graduated MBAs 13 Mar 2025 Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin Student Clubs Partner with one of the 50 career-related clubs on campus to engage with View Details

15 May 2020
News

New Menu

its food supply, considered the uncertainties climate change is introducing into the global food market and set a target of fulfilling 30 percent of its nutritional needs domestically by 2030; alternative protein sources could help the... View Details

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