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1.20 Joint Degree Programs | MBA

1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.0 Academic Information & Policies In collaboration with six Harvard University graduate schools, Harvard Business School offers seven Joint Degree programs. These programs prepare individuals for complex... View Details

December 2008 (Revised January 2011)
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Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mary Louise Shelman

Arcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China; India; California

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01 Dec 2013
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To Market, to Market

BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

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Litsa Kapsalis | MBA

bleeding-edge life science research with impactful business strategy. I would like to innovate both with the goal of developing new therapies and leveraging technological and digital health advancements to... View Details

March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
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C12 Energy

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and James McQuade

C12 aimed to build not only a company, but an entire industry around carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). "You change the world by building a market, and you build a market by building a profitable company that other people copy," said Dawe, C12 Energy's CEO. "In... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; Sustainability; Cleantech; Oil And Gas; Business Model; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry; North America

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23 Jun 2017
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A 'Pillar' of Entrepreneurship

Photo courtesy of Russ Wilcox Photo courtesy of Russ Wilcox Serial entrepreneur Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), whose ventures have included E-Ink, Transatomic Power and new life sciences startup, Piper Therapeutics, has joined Pillar, the... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

May 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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Verne Global: Building a Green Data Center in Iceland

Verne Global, a pioneering startup created to build the first large-scale data center in Iceland, faces critical challenges regarding its green strategy. Verne Co-Founder Isaac Kato is tasked with evaluating how the company can most successfully market and sell the... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Startups; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Sales; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Iceland

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24 Jun 2016
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Reinventing Pharma

2004) began her career as a research scientist. Eventually expanding her responsibilities into business development led her to HBS, where she hoped to solidify her understanding of the intersection of View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

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Eshan Tewari | MBA

interfaces with so many fronts of business and society, and I'm really excited to bring all that exposure together in one place. Tech areas of interest: Scaling technology ventures, thought pieces/journalism, early-stage venture capital... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg

Life. “I should just go tell those stories,” he remembers thinking. After graduation, he took an internship at the Washington Post. He’s now a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative business reporter at the New York Times. Long-form... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Bridging Domains

chairman of global private equity investing at Goldman Sachs, Sanjeev observes, “Every business in the world is interacting with science and engineering today. There’s a tremendous need for managers to... View Details

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Ken Peterson | About

Ken Peterson Bio In his role, Ken collaborates with colleagues across the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and beyond, supporting the needs of faculty, students, alumni, and researchers. A focus for his collaborations is... View Details

10 Sep 2020
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Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

MBA offered me the exciting opportunity to re-engage with the scientifically rich university ecosystem and learn new skills. I matriculated a year before the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences was offered, so I decided to apply... View Details

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Cameron Stone | MBA

broaden my influence beyond just my hometown. My computer science experience in high school and at Harvard have illuminated how I personally can best do that: through operating at the intersection of both View Details

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

SCA emphasizes how to deploy data science (analytics) capabilities in business operations and how employees can best leverage their own expertise and data science tools to... View Details

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Introduction Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix

finalist in MIT’s $100K business plan competition, won Fish 2.0’s $25,000 second prize, and earned a $100,000 FOUNDER.org grant. And all the attention—as well as lessons Kozachenok learned in HBS professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; aquaculture; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

Summer 2019
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Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803

By: Rolv Petter Amdam, Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the 18th-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic... View Details