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Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? - MBA
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)
Business school is a valuable investment in your future. HBS supports that investment through generous need-based scholarships. In addition to scholarships, many HBS students utilize student loans to help meet their portion of the shared investment. If you anticipate...
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- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
other, and whether he could open as many offices as the firm needed. "When I looked at my watch and realized that it was 10:00 p.m. and that I had been sitting on the bench for two hours, I knew something had to give," he...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
only for building an international beauty empire but also for the ginger-lily shower gel he is using these days. As head of the New Yorkbased firm that makes popular scents such as Jovan and Stetson as well as numerous prestige brands,...
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Susan Young
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
School professor Josh Lerner, an expert in intellectual property protection and commercialization. He believes many companies have failed to recognize the growing importance of IP in the global economy. "It has become more essential than ever that View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says...
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- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
payment, how it was detected, and the way the firm responded to the bribe after it was uncovered. To test the hypothesis, Serafeim evaluated data from the forensic services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which provides global View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 28 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Why Get an MBA?
teach the basics as well. Given my undergrad business program and consulting experience, I felt comfortable enough. I was more looking forward to tackling these topics from a different angle. ACCESS: If I learned anything in my four...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking and consulting - have evolved into big, pyramid-shaped...
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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
consulting firm to offer dairy management services. Should he continue to invest in these initiatives that benefitted the whole industry or focus resources on growing his own business? Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
that estimate the amount of money "left on the table" by stronger founders who agree to an equal split. We estimate that the value at stake is approximately 10% of the firm equity, 25% of the average founder stake, or $450K in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
macro shocks occurred. I discovered a pathway to economic development in management consulting after learning about the huge impact that strategy advisory firms in Africa had helped create. I transitioned to...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with...
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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
through the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. U.S. Competitiveness Project The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a research-led effort by Harvard Business School to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States. FSG FSG is a nonprofit View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
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Championing the HBS Fund
small Cambridge consulting firm before coming to HBS. Impressed by the Harvard Community Earning his MBA, he says, was “all I expected it to be and more.” His section experience was particularly meaningful....
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