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04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. As part of... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

for failure in similarly uncontrollable circumstances. We hire "stars," only to watch them burn out in a new and different managerial environment. We look for "best practice" (à la Jim Collins in Good to Great and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked

Thanks to a wall of life-size screens, strategically placed cameras, and a studio crew, the experience is more immersive than what is provided by a virtual meeting technology such as Zoom. Watch our Live Online Classroom (LOC) video to... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

SERVICE FROM: Bristol, England REASON FOR SERVING: I got interested in joining the military for ideological reasons. As a teenager I watched the early Sierra Leone crisis unfold and was appalled at what humans could do to each other. I... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action for the company and for his... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

too complex to use? Trialability: Can you try it in small doses? Observability: Can you watch other people use it? All of those things are inherent in the product itself. Rogers's research found that 75 percent of the variance between... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

"So is leadership about control, delegation, or theatre? It could be all three, or none of them. The answer lies in the projections of the potential followers." Ken Hedberg said, "You can tell who the leaders are by View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

unfair to high performers—that it was fairer to lay off the weak links and support the strong ones. “It’s a little surreal to watch a room full of people discuss what you did,” Cote said following the class sessions. Cote explained that... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

21 years. Nowitzki refined his skills by breaking them down into their component parts and focusing intently on the elements that needed improvement—not just practicing jump shots, but watching videos and breaking down the movements and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

tradeoff decisions. Be okay with those tradeoffs knowing you can't be the perfect mom, student, and partner at all times. Best Advice given by a professor: It's okay to not be the perfect mom all the time. Let the laundry build up to play games with the kids, let the... View Details

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

Box” referring to 9/11 with no explanation, suggesting a sinister relationship of some kind. Other snafus, such as recommendations on the children’s YouTube service that directed children watching cute pet tricks to a site featuring... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

Authentic Leadership. "Everyone inside and outside the company is watching what they do. It is imperative that they stay focused on their True North as it sets a standard internally for principled business behavior and will make... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Admissions Resources - Doctoral

faculty at HBS and departments across the university, and much more. Watch this video to learn more about why HBS may be the right home to launch your career into business academia. PhD Admissions Info Session Are you considering getting... View Details

03 Feb 2023
News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom and put the skills they’ve... View Details

11 Jan 2018
News

Taking the High Road

lack of exposure. What you have to do is ignore what they say and watch what they do, because the opposite of that is a lot of people know how to be extremely politically correct and have no positive intent whatsoever. “So, let's just... View Details

Portrait Project

Meredith Cantrell

experienced a moment of such beauty, such power and exhilaration that, for an instant, the whole world stopped? Five years ago, I found myself seated beside an older gentleman at an opera. As I watched him soak in the singers' final notes... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

1900 to 1904. Collection Guide Waltham Watch Company Records, 1854–1941 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School. The Waltham Watch Company, known as American View Details

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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Crisis Leadership: Waltham Watch Company, 1837–1957 Financial crises place extraordinary demands on business leaders. Surges in bankruptcy rates testify to the hazards involved, but these brief... View Details

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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

landscape. Stereographs and photographs appear in Series XVIII in the collection guide. Pinion making room, fine watch department , ca. 1900. Waltham Watch Co. Collection Mss: 598 1854–1929 52 stereographs... View Details

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