preparation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

invigorating the people, ideas, and physical environment of the School and retaining the best of Harvard Business School’s tradition of excellence while preparing for the future. Teaching and Technology With a goal of en-hancing the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

inefficient markets efficient”—intrigued Whitman enough to move her family across the country for what the less adventurous might have considered a risky endeavor. Whitman’s 25 years prior to joining eBay seem tailored to preparing her to... View Details

28 Jan 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation

ten-member faculty team has been named to design and deliver the course beginning next fall, but one feature is clear from the outset. To better prepare leaders for a global economy, all students will be required to participate in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

parties, key strategic partners, or a new direction for your firm. When you carefully prepare for particular negotiations, you are setting yourself up to engage in System 2 thought in situations where it is required. You also should... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

green business profitable is an even harder journey. For society's sake, entrepreneurs must be prepared to make that journey, says Geoffrey Jones. A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/308024-PDF-ENG Competing Through Business Models (D) Harvard Business School Note 710-410 This note was prepared to aid students in the EC course "Competing through Business Models."... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

School.How do you set up an IT governance committee? A company that decides it needs board-level IT oversight must do three things: Select the appropriate members and the chairman, determine the group's relationship to the audit committee, and View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101

not the fact that I invested 40 hours in information sessions, 60 hours in interviews, 40 hours of preparation for those interviews as part of 20 job applications and approximately 200 handshakes and 50 glasses of wine in networking... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

only because it has always been my dream school, but because of the case method approach of teaching. Having been through lecture-based classes in Asia for most of my education, I wanted to experience what a case method class felt like, and I was View Details

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

way to contribute in a meaningful way. All in front of over 90 people. Looking back, I can’t think of a better way to prepare us to be “at the table” wherever we go next. Why did you pursue a joint degree? The other important aspect of... View Details

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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

not? Innovation Panel Dr. Yusuf Hamied Dr. Yusuf Hamied CEO of Cipla, explains that the government’s inability to combat deadly diseases like Bird Flu led him to pursue a new way to produce and manufacture medications to prepare the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

developed a new second-year course: Investing—Risk, Return, and Impact. Here, they talk about preparing the next generation of investors for maximum impact. This movement is a decade old. Where does it stand? Shawn Cole: Investing for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial champions have the largest stakes?... View Details

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

different times and came from many countries, the alumni who filled Burden that morning all shared an intense curiosity about where the new Dean intended to take their School. Just shy of 100 days into his tenure, Nohria came prepared... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

chain (i.e., the customer-facing side of the business), which are easier to quantify because of their direct impact on the top or bottom line. Q: Assuming that organizations value their CSR initiatives, how do you think they could best craft a strategy to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

raised the issue of restitution for investors who had been defrauded and subjected to misrepresentations. "We have apparently decided that the issues of restitution ... should primarily be left to the trial lawyers of the United States." Lawyers are now View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

13 Oct 2015
Blog Post

LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

events/activities? The mentorship program between the LGBTSA and Harvard College’s LGBT business club has been a major highlight for me. I meet regularly with my mentee over lunch where we cover topics from what areas of business are most interesting to her, how best... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

structures to tackle global public health issues, fundraising strategies for global health organizations, and best practices for supporting national health programs. How has your MBA skillset prepared you to be successful in this role?... View Details

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