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04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

events, and tight-knit joint degree cohorts all add to a very rich experience as members of both HBS and HKS. The joint degree cohort is a close-knit group Taniel: I did not expect to get as close to the joint degree family as quickly as... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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History Matters

extends to politics and society as well: more electoral regime shifts, more suicides, less family formation. Sixth, human agency (leadership, knavery, and foolishness) figures importantly in the path of most crises. Why was human agency... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

result is an economy that's become profoundly unequal and families that are more insecure The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

in the family [is] the most authentic thing I can say about what Wainwright Bank does." According to Ricardo Levy, chairman of Catalytica Energy Systems, executives are trained for action—contemplation is not part of their rulebook.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

10 Nov 2021
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Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

passed, she wondered if military service could be how she could serve her country—as a first generation American, she had always wanted to give back to the country that granted her family asylum when they fled Cuba in the 1959 communist... View Details

06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His marriage was a success. He loved... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

and produce good jobs for American workers." Brody, who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area, has decided that the city is an ideal place to raise a family and base his new business ventures. He has launched a third career as an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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John H. McArthur | About

notes in distinctive longhand. McArthur also was there for members of the HBS community in good and bad times. He often appeared unannounced in hospital rooms and at family celebrations of faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously... View Details

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Sciences Venture Creation Satish Tadikonda Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion (also listed under Finance) Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems (also... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Development at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy... Ashley V. Whillans Volpert Family Associate Professor... View Details

February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss

By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden

Buddy Valastro, celebrity baker and business owner, inherited his father’s bakery—Carlo’s Bake Shop of Hoboken, New Jersey—at the age of seventeen. He had willed the shop to survive and gone on to fame through his television show, “Cake Boss”—the name most people now... View Details

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03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

drain from the suburbs, and redefine demographics in many locations, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at HBS. In The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers, published recently by the Organisation for... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

as full-blown panic hit in 1997, causing a run on Thailand’s uninsured banks. Overnight, the family lost everything. Sityodtong’s father eventually abandoned his wife and two sons, forcing them to move to a concrete-floor shack found... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

according to Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Cavallo, who bases his findings on a decade’s worth of pricing data, sees two notable changes with large multichannel retailers: faster... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

up boldly in class, and at times, raising our voices against injustices that stir our convictions. Moreover, being Latino underscores the paramount importance of family in our lives. In my case, I was fortunate to grow up surrounded by my... View Details

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

not thousands of retirees saw their nest eggs evaporate because of their unwitting participation in a deliberately contrived Ponzi scheme that, in time, became the largest ($50 billion) in Wall Street history. By this measure, or in terms of the View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

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