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Bryan Guerra
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school at HBS, the majority of my educational experience had taken place largely within a lecture-based setting. While this approach had provided a solid foundation of... View Details
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Krishna Yeshwant
feeling that I was working to make someone else richer, not to follow a real passion," Krishna says. Attracted to Boston for its prominence in both medicine and high technology, Krishna enrolled in premed classes at Harvard Extension... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Every HBS class has its “war stories.” In recent decades, they’ve been about takeover battles on Wall Street or crashing and burning in Silicon Valley. For the MBA Class of 1949, however, the “war stories” unfolded in places like Iwo... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
instrumental in setting up the Center. Sahlman has identified four characteristics that make the area unique: the rapid pace of change, a highly evolved infrastructure, a culture of entrepreneurship, and extraordinary efforts by and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
everything. I would get in at 6 a.m. to clean the office and make coffee, and then just do whatever needed to be done in order to move the ball forward, from sales and marketing to finance and accounting (top of my mind during the first... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
Fund, said, "What I do today is based on the premise that globalization will take place in Africa." Ndiaye said he believes that globalization has generated a discipline among many governments and businesses in Africa that was... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
Climate Week in NYC makes my head spin. But I’ve decided that, at this moment, head-spinning is a good thing. There is just so much activity at the intersection of business, policy, creativity, and society more broadly when it comes to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
supply. In 2009 we started shaping the kind of inventory we needed and partnered with brands in the same way department stores do to make sure that we’re not left empty-handed when we have surges in demand. MT: How are you responding to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
others makes him an inspiring example to all." Professor David A. Thomas, the chair's first incumbent, was among those attending the event. A noted authority on mentoring, executive development, and managing a diverse workforce, Thomas... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago, desperately needs an overhaul. How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
Digital record-keeping is slowly but inevitably replacing paper records everywhere from the pilot's cockpit to the registry of motor vehicles. But if implemented without proper consideration of how work gets done, the results can make... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
tournament will garner 770 billion minutes of attention. The fact that most will view the matches as they are played makes the tournament even more valuable to advertisers—a key principle of "Attention Economics," which focuses... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Well-intentioned people often start the new calendar year with a long list of personal resolutions, only to abandon most of them before Valentine’s Day. Alas, it’s a lot easier to make New Year’s resolutions than to keep them. That’s one... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2016
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sustainably, and demanded its suppliers do the same, this would have an impact on its own bottom line and make the world a better place for everyone. Students can explore whether Walmart is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the market has become a noisy View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
actions any more than you'd let them dictate yours." As a result, Wheeler is skeptical about one-size-fits-all negotiation strategies. An approach that succeeds in one context could be disastrous in another. That makes him equally... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
Ruggiero says, that will make live sports both safer and more engaging on the other side. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) READ MORE Dan: You said recently that this lack of live sports due to COVID, while it's had this tremendous negative... View Details
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog
students who are enthusiastic about working with founders of small, local businesses that struggle to access capital, and to create teams with a diverse range of skills to match with our founders. Given that there is complexity to matching teams and founders, we will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
strategy, offered advice on strategic planning. The summit took place against the backdrop of a mounting financial crisis on Wall Street and a deteriorating economy, both of which heightened concern about expected declines in giving,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
profit. Given all the challenges, what motivates the e-philanthropy entrepreneurs? Dot-com creators relish the business opportunity but are also energized by the social purpose of their enterprises. “I’ve never worked at a place more... View Details