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- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
and would require a lot of business development and strategic planning. I convinced the executive leadership to let me spend a year in the business team. I made significant... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
indications to academics that small changes to the structure of microfinance contracts could have big consequences for how people spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
says, noting that according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 12 percent of the workforce is listed as salespeople, a figure that has grown in the 21st century. Plus, the $900 billion that is spent on sales... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
introduced me to a great VC firm where she just started working. The addition of lots of kind and helpful people into an entrepreneur’s life should not be discounted.... View Details
- Profile
Tara Basu Trivedi
year of work in the real world. Being part of the HBS community is like Discovering that you’re a tiny fish in a giant ocean. But rather than focus on how tiny you are, you... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke... View Details
- Profile
Adriann Dolphin
section and the HBS PRIDE club. Being part of the HBS community is like Finding a whole new family. The section experience is my favorite so far. My section is like a 90-person family, we support each other through academics, recruiting,... View Details
- Web
A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025) - MBA
The entire experience left me intensely motivated and ready to chip in. How is your RC year (first year of the MBA) going? What are your key learning points ? I’m one month in... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate that had been outlined in the preliminary prospectus and 42%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
program title, or keywords to find the first-hand accounts that best match your areas of interest. What Will Your Story Be? Once you've immersed yourself in what HBS Executive Education has to offer, you'll View Details
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
systematically analyzed their effectiveness in terms of impact per dollar spent. Beshears is part of an informal group of behavioral scientists... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
decisions involving sustainability issues. Cases are set in a variety of industry contexts, including energy, agriculture, transportation, chemicals, and investment. Some of the environment-related cases... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
Executive Lifestyles group. He also told me to try out for the B-School Show, because half the cast and crew were gay and lesbian. That year we had about 15 people in the group, with 7 or 8 per class. I went... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
basis) in 2005 yields customer savings of more than $7 million per year for each job lost. (Fishman actually works with higher numbers for customer savings, so if he had done... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the quantity and quality of novel ideas that are produced. The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
percent year over year, and the National Restaurant Association projected an industry revenue shortfall of $240 billion for the year. Second-order effects of restaurant... View Details
- Profile
Loujaine AlMoallim
reunion memo envisioning how our lives have been since we graduated from HBS. As we read our reflections aloud in the classroom, emotions ran high. I especially remember our final classmate's words that truly moved us. He spoke about View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Veteran Financial Aid Outlook
starting point is $93,378.14 in aid per year. Sweet! If you didn’t earn the full Post-9/11 GI Bill, HBS doesn’t forget about you for need-based aid. Historically, those who earned 40% of the Post-9/11 GI... View Details