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06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

committee chair is attempting to understand the complexity of the portfolio and the risks that might be present. How should the risks of these sophisticated strategies be measured? And, in particular, what risks is the endowment exposed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

Careers Becoming a Board Member Careers Becoming a Board Member Interested in joining a board? Similar to a job search, you’ll need to make connections with the right people to find a board that fits your interests. Start Networking Start... View Details

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

agitator, the innovator, and the orchestrator. Any successful pathway to societal change requires all three, as Battilana explains in the article Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate? Understanding the Roles You Can Play in a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

noncompetitive minimum wage, firings and layoffs close to retirement, an expectation to change companies and roles five to seven times during their career, higher minimum entry requirements at corporations, and low pay. These generations expressed greater View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

Rigorous research, rooted in practice The most pressing challenges and interesting opportunities facing the world today cannot be addressed without business playing a significant role. Harvard Business School faculty conduct research on... View Details

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

complemented my professional efforts. Developing my own presence as a DJ on SoundCloud helped me gain a deeper understanding of the problems creators face in the industry, and the limitations of current technical solutions. # 2 - Use... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

with an understanding of the activities required to start a climate-focused technology venture including identifying climate problems, translating and licensing IP, building a founding team, and raising early financing. The LCV Sprint is... View Details

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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 1ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

Clarksville, Indiana, the community where the program was launched. This preliminary data suggests that low-to-moderate income Americans may have substantial demand for prize-linked savings, with a majority of survey participants expressing an View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

5-8 hrs/week Enroll by January 2 $1,850 Certificate Power and Influence for Positive Impact Professor Julie Battilana Understand how power really works and develop your own to gain influence and make an impact within your organization and... View Details

14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The remaining... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

bothering you about a particular problem, sometimes you have to slow down to recognize it,” Badaracco says. During a work meeting, rather than staying laser-focused on getting through the agenda, take time to look around the room and pay attention: Do coworkers seem... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Harshini Chengareddty

Coming to HBS is like... Drinking water out of a fire hose! Everything being thrown at you in the beginning is amazing – new friends, interesting cases, fun trips – but it all happens at a breakneck pace. What is your most memorable... View Details

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

practices that had been recognized by consulting firm McKinsey & Co., they began surveying large and random samples of companies to understand how well best practices were being used. In the first 10 years the project encompassed some... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Sherif Mityas at A.T. Kearney (A): Negotiating a Client Service Predicament

By: Ashish Nanda

Sherif Mityas, recently promoted as project manager at A.T. Kearney, faced a client service challenge in his very first project experience. Mityas had been working closely for six weeks with the management team of the U.S. subsidiary of a Japan-headquartered consumer... View Details

Keywords: Management; Conflict of Interests; Business Subsidiaries; Trust; Consumer Products Industry; Japan; United States

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Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

responsibility and even sustainability to define a new understanding of how to achieve economic success. The program brings together senior corporate managers in both line and staff roles from the U.S. and abroad, together with selected... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

And she of course would get upset because I was attacking her for giving me good advice. I went to these researchers, and I asked them, “what's going on here?” And they said, well, look, here's what we've learned: we're living through this golden age of View Details

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

Zeitlin. But unless you were a business historian, this data went largely unnoticed, and the consequences were not just academic. "This loss of history has resulted in the spread of influential theories based on ill-informed View Details