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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
are aligned, a company’s culture alone can be highly motivating, notes Hall—and that’s where it all begins: “When people ask me, ‘Does the compensation system determine the culture, or does the culture...
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- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind...
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Robert Bochnak
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and...
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Jennifer Mele
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest...
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Amy Crawford
- 23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
school until Haddad and a group of investors purchased it and transformed it into a nonprofit, it was not simply a matter of implementing proven ideas within a Brazilian institution. Haddad was committed to crafting a university that would reflect, work within, and...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
Sophus Reinert, Dante Roscini, and Arthur Segel) Japan: Innovation Through the Fusion of Digital and Analog (led by professors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell) London: Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe (led by Greg...
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April White
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
business opportunity is that martial arts is the only sport in Asia with broad appeal and local relevance,” says Cui, noting that the Asian world as a whole (with the possible exceptions of Japan and South Korea) generally lacks the 24/7 sports View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
Today, The Kraft Group is a global company that employs over 5,000 people worldwide. Many of Boston’s medical, educational, and cultural institutions have benefitted from the Krafts’ philanthropy, a tribute to Kraft and his late wife...
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Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support;
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Personal Services;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The...
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
cultural and political specificities and the economic realities of this diverse region,” explains Ivashina. “That gives them the upper hand.” Although many startups have identified and seized upon opportunities, there are also several key...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
be an entrepreneur. Growing up in the Swedish-built mining town of Yekepa in northern Liberia, she started her first business when she was 12 — an after-school activities company; parents paid her to keep their kids busy. "I didn't know of the concept of View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism edited by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani (Edward Elgar Inc.) This selection of articles includes historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
all. But Branson, whose career began in the late 1960s when he launched a student magazine and then a record company, told the audience that his enterprises all fit the company's brand. He defined the Virgin brand as representing service and value for the customer,...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Accelerating Therapies
50 million to support programs aimed at fostering an entrepreneurial culture in the life sciences across Harvard with gifts for the new Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and the Blavatnik Fellows program at HBS. "By increasing the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for social needs. Government and business, she said, cannot...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
might wish to follow her lead? “Things generally take a lot longer to implement, and you need to build certain cultural factors into your business plan and understand how best to manage those. Patience and persistence are must-haves. Find...
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- 11 Jan 2021
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Strengthening Democracy
Efforts from the alumni community to get out the vote for the 2020 Presidential election Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government In his address to HBS graduates at this 2019's Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. The 2022 finale will take place virtually on March 31. Visit www.hbs.edu/nvc to learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. Codifying View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
math whiz,” Traill says. “I thought he had all the capacity to be an engineer, but his environment didn’t give him the opportunity to make the most of his gifts.” Traill recalls his arrival at HBS as a dramatic culture shift and one that...
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Jill Radsken