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- 25 Jun 2019
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Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
Children’s Hospital, I went on to study bioengineering at Harvard. I became fascinated with biotech and established a goal of transitioning research into treatments that would make a meaningful difference for patients. After college,...
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Welcome. New Haven: American Steel & Wire, [1956?]. Show caption Hide caption The Baker Old Class collection is a particularly valuable resource for tracing the development and growth of American business from the late nineteenth century...
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Library Databases Ask Us Special Collections Fast Answers All Services Hours Plan Your Visit Exhibits Hollis Working Knowledge HBS Home About Academic Programs Alumni Faculty & Research Baker Library Campaign Harvard Business Review...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
the HBS Business Plan Contest. “A commitment to social enterprise is embedded in the fabric of HBS,” notes Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman, the track’s faculty organizer. Despite tacit recognition of the different View Details
- June 2022
- Teaching Plan
Pacesetters
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-019. City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders,...
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Understanding Boards of Directors: A Systems Perspective
By: Jay W. Lorsch
In this essay, my goal is to explore why, despite the tireless efforts of talented people, research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and where that research should turn to next to be most valuable to practitioners. My belief is that the most fruitful...
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Corporate Boards;
Business Admnistration;
Social Systems;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
System
Lorsch, Jay W. "Understanding Boards of Directors: A Systems Perspective." Annals of Corporate Governance 2, no. 1 (February 2017): 1–49.
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Collection Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search Entrepreneurs About This Collection About This Collection Howard StevensonSarofin-Rock Baker FoundationProfessor, Emeritus, Harvard Business School ADDITIONAL...
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- 02 May 2023
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From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
Rodolfo A. Diaz Cabello (MBA 2021) reflects on how his experiences at Harvard Business School supported his path to building new products at Spotify. In October 2022 I joined Spotify as a Senior Product Manager leading a team that...
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits12 SessionsFinal ProjectQualifies for Management Science Track Credit We talk to people to...
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business &...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- News
Seeking "big solutions" to increase the value of nature for business and society
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is leading the World Wildlife Fund to "connect the dots" between business and societal goals to increase our perception of the value of the natural world. (Published July 2014)
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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
giving them resources to make the less-structured career search less intimidating. Third, bringing the message that businesses can be a force for social good to the broader student body at HBS, even those who don't consider themselves...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said Harvard Business School Associate Professor of Business Administration Karim R. Lakhani. "The 2016 Faculty Research Symposium also looked ahead to major collaborations between Harvard’s school of...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
to work on making a difference. Energized by the event's success, Lane-Merrill is planning future meetings to discuss common business goals at the state level and to stimulate networking among HBS alumni. In...
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Janine Brunell Looker
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two...
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Change;
Business Education;
Business History;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders
By: Robert Simons
This project studies the life choices made by a variety of people who have left a lasting legacy. Using biographical data, we are examining the choices that high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they chose to follow. The leaders we study come... View Details
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IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World - Blog - Business & Environment
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- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into...
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Business Startup;
Fintech;
Inflation;
Deflation;
Cross-border Frictions;
Remittances;
Business Startups;
Diasporas;
Financial Crisis;
Money;
Entrepreneurship;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Poverty;
Financial Institutions;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Lebanon
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon." Harvard Business School Case 222-078, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)