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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - 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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- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
business of her own that she took the time to recruit and coach. Once the company developed a track record, however, she reverted to doing the things she loved best. In some ways, this made sense-after all,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
professor at Harvard Business School, who co-authored the study published in Nature Human Behaviour with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania colleagues Erika Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
choices as allowed by their models. Many different things can happen in this instance, so it's much more complex. We study two firms, H and L, where we assume that firm H has modules of higher quality than...
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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
the level of decision-making authority thus requires transferring information upward as well. And companies often forget to do the latter or simply don't because the cost is too high. You also need to avoid bringing too many people into...
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by Peter Jacobs
- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
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- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
was published in October 2019. Simply put, the issue is complicated. “The regulations under consideration are all essentially a one-size-fits-all solution,” Lerner says. “But one of the things that comes out...
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Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
instructors who they perceive to be well prepared and passionately committed to their learning, despite a lack of case teaching experience. Four Things Great Teachers Do Tom DeLong Professor DeLong describes...
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- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
feasible nor economical. Machine learning technology today excels at self-contained tasks like image recognition and content-sorting. “The kind of tasks that we want to do in marketing tend to be more challenging, because we’re trying to...
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by Kristen Senz
- 23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration...
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- 03 Feb 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- 26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger
separated and I want to get divorced,” what I was confronted with was not only the reality that the most important thing in my life was moving away from me, which was my nuclear family, but that I had no control to stop it. And so I think...
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- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, to see who can bring...
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Doug Marsan
our tree. By the end of the summer, we had built a two-story treehouse about 20 feet up a large oak tree. The thing was a safety nightmare (sorry, Mom and Dad), but the experience inspired me to become an...
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Video: MBA Moms Celebrate Mother’s Day - 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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- 09 Dec 2013
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Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in...
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by Michael Blanding
- June 2014
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Going Social: Durex in China
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Aaron Smith
When Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese...
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing Communications;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Products Industry;
China
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Aaron Smith. "Going Social: Durex in China." Harvard Business School Case 714-430, June 2014.
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Rachel H Chung
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I wanted to take time to step back and define what “great leadership” looks like to me. At HBS, I witness various forms of leadership through cases, conversations, clubs, and projects...
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- 12 May 2021
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The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
in common. SB: “We are astonishingly similar. We both came to the US from China for our undergraduate studies and we both started working here after college. Career-wise, both of us were in private equity—thank god we weren’t in the same...
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