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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
decisions were discussed and made. Then she moved to expand her risk management process throughout the bank. She handed out 10,000 booklets that presented the department's view and expertise in areas including market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. All the...
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- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
hands-on learning experience as a delegate at COP28. I have refined my career interests and realized the specifics of the story that I want to be part of when it comes to climate action. Looking aheads, the critical challenge lies in View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Mitchell Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice and chair of the Required Curriculum in the MBA Program. Read more about From Chalkboards to Chatbots A large language model such as ChatGPT is a type of GenAI that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
influences. This discourse hence suggested that this art had so far been aesthetically misjudged, therefore implying that it had also been economically undervalued. Saffronart and the other auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams) were able to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
my Vietnamese heritage, and it’s how I live my life. Jashin Lin (MBA 2023) I take great pride in my Asian identity and I aim to embody our culture’s values of dedication, grit, and collectivism. We believe that actions speak louder than words. For me, these values...
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- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
these messages as a way to trap and weed out minorities that do apply. “I don’t think it’s intended to be a setup,” she says. “These organizations are not necessarily all talk when they say they’re pro-diversity. Maybe the diversity values are there, but they just...
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China | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and statistical reports. Select English at the top of the screen to view the site in English. Hong Kong Stock Exchange /citations/hong-kong-stock-exchange Latest news, listed companies, rules and regulations, and statistics. Chinese versionis available. However the...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
contracts filled three floors. Next, she restarted her English language school for international students, a side of the business that faltered after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China and Beijing-mandated withdrawal of all...
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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
upbringing set the course for his eventually attending HBS. His father, an Italian-born engineering-trained executive with Lockheed Martin who travels one-third of the time, met Amadio’s mother, an American, when he enrolled in an English class in a View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
process. The paper explores how entrepreneurs and firms translated societal values into brands, globalized them, and changed societal perceptions of beauty as a result. It also shows the limitations of the homogenization achieved by firms...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name...
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Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship and venture capital, the actions of any one group are likely to have positive spillovers—or, in the language of economics, "externalities"—for their peers. It is in these types of settings that the government...
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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China....
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
greatly enrich the entire HBS community," he notes. Hurdles in Common International students hail from homelands that may differ vastly from each other, but once they arrive at the School, they tend to face common challenges. This is particularly true when English is...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
to realize that most people feel like outsiders - feel like they are different. It's a beautiful thing and worth celebrating. During LHM, we are reminded that the Latinx experience is incredibly diverse. We have different mother tongues. Sometimes we speak the same...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
served in combat, many people would come back and say, “I’ve got all these great skills. I don’t know how to translate them into a job.” The interesting situation there is, we had people that were highly skilled and highly trained in many...
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