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Recent Alumni Regional Events - Alumni

2010-2025 Thursday, June 19 | London, UK Find the full HBS in London photo library here! HBS in SF: MBA Classes 2015-2024 Thursday, February 27 | San Francisco, CA Find the full HBS in SF photo library here! HBS in SEA: MBA 2009-2024... View Details

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

Foundation Limited (HGF) . This dual-qualified entity (charity number 1200419) provides UK and dual US-UK donors with a tax-efficient means to support Harvard’s learning, research, and educational activities. View Details

September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
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Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber

Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details

Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Dubai Financial Services Cluster (2006) United Kingdom The Future of the UK Midlands Automotive Cluster (2017) London FinTech Cluster (2016) IT Hardware Cluster in Cambridge, UK (2012) View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

in the Impact Investing Trek. Organized by student clubs, treks provide HBS students an opportunity to visit companies around the world as they explore industries and functional areas of interest. Students who visit the Bridges offices in the View Details

30 Mar 2023
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Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

the UK make it economically viable for UK waste producers to ship their trash on barges to Denmark. Thanks to state-of-the-art flue gas cleaning and bottom ash treatment, the incinerator’s environmental... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Events - Business & Environment

Energy Law Program, HACE, HBS Alumni Association of the UK, Harvard Club of the UK, and Harvard Law School Association of the UK 24 JUN 2025 | Diageo Headquarters, London Open to Harvard Alumni Join us for a networking reception on June... View Details

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

She launched the nonprofit consulting practice at the Parthenon Group. Then in 2010, her friend Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who had built Social Finance UK with David Blood (MBA 1985), was looking to expand the organization. “Tracy had... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Mar 2024
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A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

active debate on whether companies have primary responsibility to their shareholders (as in the U.S.) or a multi-faceted responsibility to employees, customers, the broader community (as written into the law to varying degrees in the UK... View Details

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Identifiers in Business Information Databases

the specific issue, and the ninth character is a check digit. SEDOL – Issued for UK companies only. SEDOLs are 7 characters with the last character being a check... View Details

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

School Professor William R. Kerr. “Nationalistic policies have gained strength all around the world,” Kerr says, pointing to Brexit in the UK and strains caused by the refugee crisis in Europe as indicators of anti-immigrant sentiment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. What if my role is not based in Africa, but my work focuses on Africa? (e.g. NGO in the US or UK or private equity firm investing in Africa) The GO: AFRICA Fellowship is only available... View Details

28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added manufacturing in the US and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

31 Mar 2023
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Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

uncompensated care per year and requiring $11 billion in publicly funded grants for community health centers. The researchers propose offering everyone a basic bundle of health insurance, an approach that has worked for other high-income nations. For example, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

23 Mar 2023
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Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

Corporate Sustainability. Arla shared their commitments to a stronger planet and stronger people, grounded in a selection of eight priority UN Sustainability Goals. In pursuit of these commitments, Arla has set ambitious goals, including 100% recyclable plastic and... View Details

20 Apr 2020
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

thereafter, the world started to change quickly and dramatically. The impending health crisis and mass stockpiling consumed the collective psyche. And a tweet from the UK went viral: a nurse who had worked all day taking care of COVID-19... View Details

18 Mar 2019
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Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

role, that often frustrates entry into their work role, leaving them more vulnerable to the strain of commuting, less satisfied with their jobs, and more likely to quit. In one survey of employees at a UK media firm, the research team... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Mar 2012
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HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

recent acquisitions in Poland and the UK and opened a subsidiary in China. “In English I am not myself. My personality is much smaller in this context.” Neeley, who speaks five languages, conducted in-depth interviews in English and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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