Tag: Harvard Business School
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The quest to win over Amazon
Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta discusses Amazon’s unusual sweepstakes competition to find a new location for its second headquarters, dubbed “Amazon HQ2.”
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The stock market goes off-road
Harvard Business School’s Robin Greenwood, who studies price bubbles, discusses the stock market plunge that took place earlier this week.
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As Europe’s economic picture brightens, new threats emerge
Europe’s economic recovery is well underway, but the EU faces serious new threats, foreign policy experts said at a Harvard Summit in November.
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The NBA-HBS career connection
When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.
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Advanced Leadership Initiative creates room for innovation
Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative brings 44 top business executives to campus so they can do something off course.
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How leaders are shaped
The Harvard historian has a new book about five leaders — Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson — and what links their stories.
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How the mom-and-pop can compete in a changed marketplace
HBS teachers draw on 30 years of industry data at a Harvard Ed portal talk aimed at helping small business owners develop strategies to compete in a changed marketplace.
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Heading off the post-antibiotic age
Antibiotic resistance has the potential to take millions of lives by 2050 if nothing is done to address the problem, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Harvard Business School.
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Runners on a hot streak, for charity
More than 1,500 runners and spectators, a third of them from Harvard, turned out for the 14th annual Brian Honan 5K Run/Walk.
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Want to do well? Then do good
Harvard Business School Professor Steven Rogers told an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal that identifying problems and creating ways to solve them can change society, especially in underserved communities.
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Santos receives 2017 Great Negotiator Award
Colombian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos was honored with Harvard Law School’s 2017 Great Negotiator Award for his work to end his country’s 52-year civil war.
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Political failure through a business lens
A new report from Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter and co-author Katherine Gehl looks at the country’s dysfunctional political system through the lens of business competition to find practical, effective ways to improve how politics serves what should be its most important customers: average voters.
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The mayors, who have to make government work
Forty mayors from the United States and overseas gathered in New York City for the inaugural session of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, whose aim is to promote urban innovation.
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Year Up gives underserved youth a step up
Year Up graduates reflect on the Harvard-affiliated program that changed their lives.
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Finance meets humanities — really
Economist Mihir Desai sets aside his usual academic work in a new book in which he uses plain language and stories drawn from literature and art to explain the basic principles of finance and show how deeply they are rooted in the humanities.
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A cornerstone of Allston innovation
The high-end manufacturing and assembly workstations of the Maker Space will be open to all members of the Harvard community.
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New springboard for tech leadership
Harvard Business School and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have announced a joint master’s program aimed at shaping leadership in tech.
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Will business fill the Paris void?
Q&A with HBS Professor George Serafeim on the response among corporate leaders to the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement.
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7,066 degrees and certificates awarded at Harvard’s 366th Commencement
Today the University awarded a total of 7,066 degrees and certificates.
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Black leadership, front and center
Harvard Business School course focuses on case studies of black business leaders and their challenges.
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Paving the way to entrepreneurship
Harvard-based program exposes high school students to the excitement and challenges of entrepreneurship.
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The internal marriage tax of women M.B.A.s
Study says that female M.B.A. students may downplay their career ambitions if they sense doing otherwise will harm their marriage prospects.
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A day of Hillary at Harvard
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Harvard Friday for several private sessions with students and faculty to discuss some of the challenges she faced as the nation’s top foreign policy representative from 2009-13.
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For retail, the revolution is televised
For retail, the revolution is being televised, or at least delivered through online screens.
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All hail partisan politics
Using the case-study method, Harvard Business School historian David Moss examines pivotal moments in American history where disagreement and conflict reshaped our democracy for the better.
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Honoring the Crimson line
Harvard officials, staff, administrators, faculty, alumni, and students stood alongside alumni veterans and active servicemen and -women at a reception at Pusey Library for an evocative exhibition that traces the interwoven histories of two of the country’s oldest institutions: Harvard and the U.S. military.