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- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
access it? Who gets to update it? What's the last day for bookings in each quarter? Is it the same all around the world? Do we have to do a credit check before scheduling every order for production? Who gets to certify approved vendors?... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
mistakes might be punished, on these drilling platforms the orientation was more around learning from failures. Management put in place explicit processes for analyzing what went wrong and implementing procedures to address the problem.... View Details
- 21 Mar 2022
MBA Information Session & Campus Tour
Join us on campus for a tour and information session about HBS MBA Program and Admissions Process. The information session will begin at 3:00pm. Please arrive at least 5 minutes prior to the start of your session in order to check in and... View Details
- Profile
Jennifer Hurford
Republic, and Nicaragua. In Nicaragua, where Jennifer worked on impact investing, she "realized I needed more private-sector tools, more private-sector experience," in order to contribute more effectively. After completing her... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
attention to what’s said, not just for the literal translation but to understand the real meaning of what people are communicating. Another thing I’ve realized is that we’re very good in the West at minimizing the process of molding... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
stay-at-home orders will likely make brick-and-mortar stores and shopping malls less appealing to consumers, and will likely fuel online shopping. On a more positive side, consumers are likely to continue to indulge in little luxuries... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
the permanent sections that will carry them through the required curriculum," Schlesinger notes. "Through exercises in teamwork, applied personal skills, and project management, we provided both the process and project expertise that... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
bolster their bargaining power, and channeling the flow of the process through time. They understand that actions taken away from the negotiating table can be as important as what goes on at the table, if not more so.1 Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
School, along with actions you can take now to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
evil and unoriginal. This raises a question: Is there a link between creativity and unethical behavior? “Dan and I started wondering whether there is something about the creative process that triggers dishonest behavior.” There certainly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
revitalize product lines produced by some of America’s most recognizable retailers. More recently, Ross, a self-styled corporate maverick, has branched out from products to explore process in pursuit of corporate America’s elusive holy... View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
engaging. Keep the conversation flowing and limit the amount of time you are talking at students by sharing details about your company and hiring process in advance. Within your Company Conversation event posting in our recruiting... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations who affect the value-delivery... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
GMBuyPower.com, which enables customers to order cars online. The second is the development of its OnStar technology, which, according to the company's 1999 annual report, will enable the first "Web car." 72 The third change is... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
each distribution over the feasible subsets. Our rules can be interpreted as distance minimization-selecting the order closest to the population's preferences, using a metric on the orders that reflects the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
you need to visit and live in countries yourself in order to understand them. Having interacted with Start-ups and VCs as president of the Entrepreneurship club I knew that I wanted to be investing at a slightly later stage of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
assessing which management practices and processes in an organization could benefit from experimentation? It is important to understand that experimentation matters to managing change and uncertainty. A: It is important to understand that... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
place where students and faculty can teach and learn together. In order to make this happen, students must build an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. We have reason to believe that this atmosphere did not always exist in that... View Details