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- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions together is fundamental to a healthy cofounding relationship....
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by Julia Austin
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
personality. Zoom fatigue is real. Not all bonding has to be in the moment. Take advantage of asynchronous communication with a page or Slack channel for sharing recipes, articles, and snapshots. The leveling effect of remote work may...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- Web
Joiner - Entrepreneurship
Student Journey Joiner Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum View Video Getting a job at a startup is a networked path and individual search. Throughout your time at HBS, use resources such as the Rock Center, VCPs, EIRs, Baker...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
reality, such as when taking another test on which they cannot cheat? We find that self-deception diminishes over time only when self-deceivers are repeatedly confronted with evidence of their true ability (Study 1); this learning,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
MBA 2023 Alumni Transition - Alumni
Card access ends HBS Slack access ends. MBA Career & Professional Development website access ends Student listserv access ends Zoom Pro access ends Please download and store your Zoom cloud recordings before access is lost. Laptops and...
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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
remote work tech tools. Find a colleague who has used Slack and Zoom and set up a tutorial and get a sense of how to use these tools and what their functionality is like. Hopefully the virus will go away soon, but those tools will stay...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
want. As an aside, I ended up marrying my aforementioned girlfriend, so while I don’t endorse slacking off on any job, in this particular case the reprimand was worth it. —Brian Ginsler (MBA 2003) "My First Job" - HBS alumni reflections...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
leaders need a new game plan. We asked Harvard Business School professors to provide practical advice for managing large-scale, long-term remote work at a time when many employees are not only distracted by the commotion in their homes,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
specific task within a certain time frame." Self-management is perhaps an extreme case of what we have found, in our research, to be one of the features of high-performance work places that are most attractive to the people who work...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
climate challenges and can translate complex climate topics into simple terms. They recommend spending time learning about policies, regulations, systems of change, certification schemes, and the impacts that they are having on different...
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- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for...
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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
question," says Steve Harris, vice president of ABS Consulting, Oakland, Calif. Risk can be viewed as the product of frequency times consequence. That means a high-frequency/low-consequence event, such as the regular fluctuation of...
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by David Stauffer
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Elliott: Digital-first elevates output and diversity Slack is a mainstay of remote work. But when Covid-19 hit the company behind the software had to pivot from an in-person orientation to digital-first. VP Brian Elliott, leader of the...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Time Inc. as president of digital operations in 2016, the internet cheered. With stints at AOL and PopSugar, Wong was a respected veteran of the young digital media industry, and her hire signaled the...
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April White
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
Ebola. Furthermore, in the interest of efficiency, we've decreased the number of beds available for extreme cases, leaving ourselves unable to admit patients in the face of an epidemic. There's a constant trade-off between efficiency and View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
virtual event with detailed slides and a real-time Q&A discussion. Each session is recorded and posted to the club’s Facebook page. “We feel it should be available to anyone as a public good,” says Lundgren. The pair also created a related COVID-19 topic on the club’s...
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
less productive. ©iStock/Uberimages “We were afraid teams would spend less effort finding households of different ethnicities, and they would spend all of their time trying to register their own people in order to gain power,” says Pons....
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by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
background (or theirs). These are invaluable opportunities to build a connection with your team. Unstructured time is simply ensuring you’re not tied up in meetings all day and have blocks of open time to...
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by Julia Austin
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
industry, most recently as CEO of the Swiss/Chilean company Aport SA. Airlines have since abandoned all aspirations of luxury to focus on reducing operational expenses. It’s the reason we’re seeing a bumper crop of low-cost carriers, Fraser adds. If anyone is to pick...
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