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- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE National Basketball Association HBS ACTIVITIES Community Values Rep, African-American Student Union (AASU) co-president, 2019-20 Vivian Scalfi “THIS IS THE PLACE TO LEARN HOW TO IMPROVISE.” HOME REGION Sao Paulo,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
a human level with patients.” The importance of connection was furthered during Zaki’s years as an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh. While there, he worked as a tutor with a family of Somali refugees. Deeper conversations, he found, took View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon placed big bets on Google's Android for smartphones and on fiber-optics for landlines, and... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Pike Place Roast, which emphasizes the brand's humble Seattle coffee culture beginnings. Adidas's "Impossible Is Nothing" campaign emphasized the underdog stories of famous athletes. Q: How did you notice this trend? How did you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
a realized loss of $2 billion. The ensuing bank run intensified as SVB proved unable to placate investor fears or raise capital to plug that hole, and SVB was placed in receivership on the morning of March 10. Finger-pointing began... View Details
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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
It was a magical experience—the combination of hair, accents and melanin brought calmness to an anxiety-filled experience of moving to a new place in a new community. I remember That time I left the first consulting club session on how to... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
sources. In the past, deans and business school faculty had a ready response to questions about the value of the MBA degree: graduate business training was a way of getting ahead of the pack and igniting one's career. MBAs, the argument ran, were a breed apart and were... View Details
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course)
The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Strategy; Macroeconomics; State Capitalism; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Economics; Energy Industry; Retail Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; China; Africa; Dubai; Pakistan; India; Brazil; Russia; Cuba; Argentina
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
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Overview
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
student? "Make the most of your two years: Soak it all in, spend time with people, and above all, take risks. You'll never be in a place and time like this again." How do you use what you learned at HBS? "While at HBS, I had no idea I... View Details
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
says. “It had all the earmarks for a huge success, but it wasn’t.” Why? “I was an absentee owner,” explains McCann. “I wasn’t networked into the community. In Santa Cruz, nobody knew me. I’d thought it was the great location that would make it successful. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
implement the changes, then you make the big remodel change and become visibly different. And we're actually right at the point of making that transition where we've gotten the new initiatives in place and are beginning to remodel and... View Details