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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
school's long history provides some comfort that it would remain a significant force in years to come, yet he noted that 100 years ago, the best universities in the world were located in Germany, and today few in that country are considered the top schools. "There's no...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
fellowship funds and annual gifts to the HBS Fund. The average one-year scholarship, typically called a fellowship at HBS, is $43,000, and nearly half of all MBA students benefit from these outright scholarships or grants. Students pay...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
point. "His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident," noted a 1976 article in the Harvard Gazette. "The reply completed, Mr....
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
to emphasize a point. “His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident,” noted a 1976 article in the Harvard Gazette. “The reply completed, Mr....
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
among the permitted lenders. After all, small businesses generate almost 2 million net new jobs a year and employ 47 percent of the workforce. Even though macroeconomists rarely give them their due, Mills says, small businesses contribute...
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- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
As the holidays approach, we’ll all experience the temptation to overspend on gifts for our loved ones (and maybe a little on ourselves). When faced with difficult decisions like whether to spend $199 on a knife set or a tool set, we may...
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- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
the club now boasts over 150 members. What is the mission of Sound Society? Our mission is simple: enhance the HBS experience through music. Our founding team felt that this could be done in three primary ways. One: give students more...
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- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
opportunity. We kicked off the first week of October with the National Coming Out Day portrait project series. About a dozen or so members of PRIDE, including myself, volunteered to share our personal coming out stories alongside our headshots at Spangler Hall. It was...
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
every day. In addition to coffee, Starbucks offers tea, pastries, and gift packages; distributes coffee-flavored ice cream and beverages to supermarkets; and maintains the retail Web site starbucks.com. Smith oversaw the company's IPO in...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
goal. When you consider that your job-perhaps even your industry-may disappear, you have no choice but to take control. Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
what I had. Hanna: And a lot of people may not know what that was like, would you mind talking about that a little bit, just to give us a sense of it? Switz: Absolutely. I think many people don't know what a psychotic break looks like and...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
received numerous awards for teaching at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Since 1995, Rogers has combined his firsthand business experience and solid academic foundation with his gift for pedagogy to make his...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
a “gift from the government,” but rather an asset with a strong future value that brought neighbors together and gave strength to families where so much had been lost. This gift of the first calf was incredibly significant. A cow, it...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
problem, and he stepped away so that our family could function. Professor George helped me realize that my passion for making change in the world is driven by this experience of watching my father’s struggle and by my strong sense of responsibility to View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
economic construct; it’s a psychological construct—the happiness one gets by being close to family and friends—and it needs to be taken into account.” By giving workers the flexibility to take vacation time when it is most meaningful to...
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by Kristen Senz
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
camera. Sony can either advertise on Facebook and accept a very low click-through rate, or give away free cameras to several Facebook members (potentially at a lower cost than advertising) and generate a viral campaign. Our research shows...
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- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter, and Color of Change. Invite family, friends, and colleagues to join you. If you’ve already started working, ask about getting your company to match your gift(s). Try becoming a monthly donor if you don’t have enough cash on...
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