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- 15 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
Environment Initiative to highlight six things prospective and current students should know about sustainability on campus. Interested students can become Sustainability Associates The Student Sustainability Associate (SSA) program...
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- March 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time
By: Michael Chu
ACCION International has been a major innovator in microfinance for 30 years. Reviews organizational context under which key industry-shaping concepts were developed (from peer group lending, guarantee funds, equity investment funds, and regulated commercial banking...
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Joint Ventures;
Equity;
Microfinance;
Employee Relationship Management;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Chu, Michael. "ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time." Harvard Business School Case 304-095, March 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations? The right culture, hiring and promotion processes, peer evaluations, and firing policies will ensure that power ends up in the right hands in organizations. That’s the sum of most...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How to onboard recently graduated MBAs
example, ‘This is Sue from finance; she’ll show you how to submit purchase orders.’ Spread these out over the first few months so that no one is overwhelmed.” Brennan also favors introducing new recruits to...
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All Industries
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Researchers at Harvard Business School publish hundreds of studies around business management each year, often in collaboration with peers from other institutions. Here are insights collected from papers and journal articles published over the last few months. Overcome...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurs (Co-) Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technology Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes
- 11 May 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field
- June 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Jack Carlisle, CIO
An experienced CIO hired to professionalize IT in a growing financial services firm struggles with the turmoil that follows sudden replacement of the company's CEO. Jack Carlisle must assess the changes, both actual and prospective, in an environment in which IT has...
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Change Management;
Information Technology;
Personal Development and Career;
Management Teams;
Financial Services Industry
Austin, Robert D. "Jack Carlisle, CIO." Harvard Business School Case 606-153, June 2006. (Revised March 2007.)
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
"T-shaped managers," that is, they focus on individual unit performance (the vertical part of the T) and contributions across units (the horizontal part of the T). BP has put in place several mechanisms to nurture T-shaped...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunity often lay in the problems that they and their peers faced in their personal lives. Take Michel, for example. A naval flight officer prior to attending HBS, Michel joined a Navy reserve unit in...
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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
serves on Prize4Life’s board of scientific advisors. Professor Vicki Sato has also served on the Prize4Life board. When they were ready to set up Prize4Life, Kremer and his peers got advice from professors...
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Margie Kelley
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
thing or two about efficiency. But it's one thing to make yourself more efficient, quite another to make a team more efficient, and still another when that team's membership is in constant flux. With...
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- 27 Nov 2012
- News
Investors Demand CEO Face Time
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How to Come Out at Work
outcomes with diverse perspectives and lived experiences. HBS students and alumni advise their peers to own what they uniquely bring to the table – from both your professional...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
peers wrote, “Sometimes it seems as though you disengage once you have shared your answers and ideas.” Ouch. Since then, during my FIELD assignments, I have consistently worked to improve this trait. I...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
board are being led. Even experienced CEOs and chairmen sometimes find it difficult to lead a discussion among people who are essentially their peers or even in some cases their bosses. It isn't easy View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How to Come Out at Work
outcomes with diverse perspectives and lived experiences. HBS students and alumni advise their peers to own what they uniquely bring to the table – from both your professional...
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All Industries
- 20 Sep 2014
- News