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- 06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2022, over 65 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details
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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online
Certificate of Specialization . We also offer the Credential of Readiness (CORe) . Our CORe program combines three courses— Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting —with a... View Details
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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
of the program. Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts served as the associate director. Students studied under the case method system, in which they solved problems identified in hundreds of real business situations. One of the View Details
- September 2016 (Revised March 2020)
- Teaching Note
Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model
By: Feng Zhu
Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride, as opposed to the 20%–30%... View Details
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Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details
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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
management—were new. The School’s first dean, Edwin F. Gay, led the development of the core curriculum for the emerging field of business administration. Before the completion of the Allston campus in 1927,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
core business to ensure that essential complements get off the ground. As desktop videoconferencing takes off, so, too, will demand for Intel's newest chip, the Pentium Pro. That is why the company has... View Details
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Annual Report 2024 | Harvard Business School
Applications 4 % Admitted 58 % Yield 126 Total Enrollment Executive Education 12,385 Total Enrollment Online 41,798 Total enrollment 4,141 CORe Participants PDF Downloads Key Metrics (pdf) Financial Statements (pdf) View Details
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
PayJoy: Finance for the Next Billion By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott January 2025 | Faculty Research PayJoy, an impact-driven financial technology company founded in 2015, provides smartphone financing and other financial products to customers who ... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
divest a recent acquisition or buy other assets to build this business area would check the same column. The law partner who is thinking about retirement from a lucrative law practice and who really wants to go into teaching and shape... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
"I never thought I would be a business person until…”
I still remember the excitement on March 27th, the day I was admitted to Harvard Business School. Once the excitement was gone, I began to realize what this meant. Recruiting. Taking the next step in my career, stakes felt higher.I come... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
make on us. Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Managing Partner, Burnt Island Ventures Bake Sustainability into the Core of What You Do BIO The role of business leaders is to see the writing on the wall and act... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly by View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- March–April 2019
- Article
The Dual-Purpose Playbook
By: Julie Battilana, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Marissa Kimsey
Corporations are being pushed to dial down their single-minded pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Organizing; Business And Society; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Structure; Leadership
Battilana, Julie, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul, and Marissa Kimsey. "The Dual-Purpose Playbook." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 124–133.
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
his tuition by trading his own stocks. This fall, Ameen will begin classes at Harvard Business School, where he says he hopes to strengthen the financial, analytical, and leadership skills that will help him understand how to work within... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
across academic departments) that is of significance to business and society. At their core is a broad research agenda, determined and driven by the faculty. How does the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative... View Details
- September 2024
- Case
Comun: Partners in Peril
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alexis Lefort
In spring 2023, Abiel Gutierrez and Andres Santos, co-founders of Comun, faced a critical decision at their fintech startup serving Latino immigrants. Having launched their product the previous year, they experienced rapid growth but encountered rising fraud and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I identify opportunities in emerging markets? How important are... View Details
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?
By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau
At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details
Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden
Spar, Debora L., Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao, and Julia Comeau. "H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?" Harvard Business School Case 324-101, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
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The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
By: Karen Mills
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation’s private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in... View Details