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21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library

number of these questions (in addition to those related to course work or independent projects) that focus on career research – helping students create target lists, and learning more about industries or the companies they’re interviewing... View Details

05 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

awarded to Active Surfaces and second place went to WereWool. Rounding out the day was an interview of Tom Steyer, Co-Executive Chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, by Jim Matheson, Special Advisor at BEV and The Engine, & Senior... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

the companies studied were interviewed by anyone in the C-suite. The result: About a third of promising new hires depart within three years of being recruited. As a remedy, the authors offer their best thinking about state-of-the-art... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

removing client-sensitive information, we develop 'knowledge objects' by pulling key pieces of knowledge such as interview guides, work schedules, benchmark data, and market segmentation analyses out of documents and storing them in the... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

Zaltman and Deshpandé started by conducting 16 separate interviews with managers and "research suppliers" from Fortune 500 companies and prominent research firms. The two then honed their inquiry further, mailing 800... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

on the financial aid form ask students about their financial situation earlier in their lives and take approximately 5-10 minutes to answer. Awards for the MBA classes of 2022 and 2023 were based on this new formulation, and in interviews... View Details

08 Apr 2021
News

Real Talk

the flip side, sharing stories in a safe space can elicit empathy—and empathy for each other is what we need at this moment, above all else.” Their approach was the result of dozens of interviews with CEOs, DE&I trainers, employees,... View Details

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

subsidized by the organizations employing the executives that participate in them. To understand the ongoing transformation of the industry, we use a large database of interviews with participants in executive development programs at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

so, it can improve performance and grow faster than an organization that does not conform to industry norms. As one founder I interviewed put it, "Customers are used to doing things in a certain way [with established organizations],... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Creating Emerging Markets project, Professor Victoria Ivashina, faculty chair of the Middle East and North Africa Region, interviewed Madame Ouided Bouchamaoui (pictured), the co-laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize and a board member... View Details

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

the book and I talked to business people and I talk to a really fascinating woman who’s an HBS, I think class of '05, Yael Melamed (MBA 2005), who is, she's a psychotherapist and she deals with relationships. I talked to all these amazing people and View Details

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

to a Good Habit How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time What non-cash benefits does your work provide you? Share your thoughts below. View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health care industry. Read an View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

co-founded a Y Combinator-backed biotech microbiome startup during school. Alex and Shad also co-host a popular podcast, “Physicians Off the Beaten Path,” interviewing physicians who have ventured into non-clinical careers. Alex is... View Details

25 Jun 2020
News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

HBS faculty are actively involved in international research, often working in collaboration with specific HBS research centers to pursue particular avenues of inquiry. In FY20, all of the School’s global outposts helped to coordinate more than 50 View Details

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has visited bookstores in 26 states,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

The Kraft team is conducting interviews to evaluate models at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (philanthropy); at Stanford’s StartX and MIT’s Sandbox (incubator); and at Breakout Labs and Root Capital (venture philanthropy). “We’re... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

communal, but rather personal and private. “One woman wrote about gathering all the pictures of her and her ex-boyfriend, taking them to the park were they met, and tearing them up,” Norton recalled in an interview with Working Knowledge.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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