business education - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become core to any financial analysis,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

LA and completed a film program at USC, so I wasn’t even sure business school was a good choice at that point. But in the long term, I envisioned a career that had a foot in both business and creative. MB:... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource

recognized the need for such an organization in 1999. "I wanted to provide smart people in the health-care industry with a way to come together and educate each other on current developments in the field," she says. "By bringing this... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2002
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Fellowship Dinner Brings Students and Donors Together

Robert K. Kraft (MBA '65), himself a former HBS fellowship recipient as well as a featured speaker at the event. Dean Kim B. Clark underscored the importance of fellowships at HBS, calling them “the lifeblood of Harvard Business School.”... View Details

Keywords: Management

27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

flying eye-hospital; and Airlink, a disaster-relief organization. This year, Liu became an Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow at Harvard University, and serves as an adjunct professor at University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate View Details

18 Jan 2012
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Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

pinpoint the roots of the country’s competitiveness problem. The findings allow us to assess whether individual elements of the US business environment, such as the complexity of our tax code or our K-12 View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
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What Makes Israel Tick?

world. What gives? In search of answers, eight HBS faculty members and four Harvard deans, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria, traveled to Israel in January for a weeklong immersion that introduced them to business leaders, researchers, and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

15 Oct 2019
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In Pursuit of Academia

talking to classmates, I found that the experience of losing status impacted them strongly.” Her observations might have ended there had she not taken CareerLeader, a business career self-assessment survey, just prior to matriculation and... View Details

22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women

From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards worked and the skills needed to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

for senior executives at HBS. Aligning Strategy and Sales is full of voices and stories from top firms, business leaders, and educators who offer valuable lessons through their experiences—both their... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

01 Feb 2001
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Books

reenergized by strategic thinking and new competitive approaches, the United States will be forced to reexamine some of its own weaknesses, such as a poor education system, adversarial approaches to problem solving, a declining commitment... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2009
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When More Is Better

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is learning about all the amazing undertakings of the School’s 70,000-plus graduates. HBS alumni, it seems, command a fair amount of media attention, much of it for business endeavors: running... View Details

Keywords: meta

24 Apr 2014
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Training great principals to lead great schools

impact on more than 300,000 students in schools nationwide. The idea for New Leaders was developed by Fenton and a group of other Harvard students in 2000 as an approach to an impending shortage of school principals. Their concept was a finalist in HBS’s annual View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big

2011 HBS Business Plan Contest. Competing with 62 other teams, they earned one of three runner-up slots and gained the confidence to launch the business, thanks also to positive feedback from their HBS adviser and the judges. "The View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2014
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Feedback

collapse.” It’s a very nice feel-good story, but how cell phones are going to bring a tribal culture dominated by religious extremism, corruption, repression of women, and a lack of access to education and commercial infrastructure into... View Details

Keywords: feedback

01 Mar 2006
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Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?

We’re bringing religion and some very personal terms into it. A whole series of fissures that have sat quiet in this country for a long time can be revived if there isn’t space for moderation. What can be done to bring the country together? Every politician in creation... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance; Health, Social Assistance

23 Sep 2020
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HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

that Dean Nohria has committed $25 million over the next 10 years to the plan—and that the School will seek additional support from donors to sustain the plan over time. “To be true to our mission,” said Dean Nohria, “we must enlist the full spectrum of human talent... View Details

13 May 2013
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Alex Popa, MBA 2007

long-held passion. “I was deeply involved in the sciences in high school and at Stanford, and I truly believe genomics is the business field that will lead to the fastest rate of innovation in my lifetime. As an investor too, I see it as... View Details

19 Dec 2012
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Rethinking the Walls