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Benefits | Predoctoral Researchers

healthcare/dental, paid time off. Dedicated Workspace Predoctoral researchers are co-located in spaces on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus . Campus Services & Discounts HBS has many facilities and discounts —from the Shad Fitness... View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot facility on Harvard’s Allston campus is a... View Details

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Middle East. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or interacting. It’s very taxing, to be honest.” “The role of an office is to congregate and help people work together,” Sadun says. “For us, the question was, ‘What happens when you... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

Cambridge; MSc, Space Science & Engineering, University College of London; MBA’17, Harvard University Dan Nevius is a Co-Founder and COO of Analytical Space, a Boston-based startup building a network of small satellites that use optical... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Feedback

Laxmi Wordham (MBA 2001) Chief Growth Officer, Bright Feeds Concept: Bright Feeds uses patent-pending drying technology and an AI-driven processing technique to convert all varieties of food waste into a high-quality and consistent animal-feed replacement for the soy... View Details

Keywords: Illustration by Drue Wagner; Photo by ChiChi Ubiña

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Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details

Keywords: Organization Design; Architecture; Modularity; Open Source Software; Communication; Design; Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Software

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Davida Bynum

system in our classroom. Throughout the year, we learned about the science and technology of astronauts, robotic engineering, and mission control specialists which culminated into a final “mission” and week-long field trip at NASA’s Space... View Details

18 Apr 2023
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What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining

Portrait Project

Alex Angelopoulos

hubs felt out of reach. A small startup of five was the antidote to my distress. Huddled around a laptop in a cramped, buzzing co-working space in Athens, our team competed with Goliaths, fueled only by our determination, creativity, and... View Details

26 Aug 2024
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HBS Lingo 101

hub for entrepreneurial activity around the university and the Boston area. With office space and a packed calendar of programming, the i-Lab brings entrepreneurs throughout the university together. NVC: The New Venture Competition is an... View Details

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

reestablishing confidence in the broader financial system. As to SVB, its credit specialization in the VC space is leaving an important void. I am less concerned about subscription lines, although this might temporarily bounce into... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

us, their revenue has dropped to zero. How can we make sure they survive?” Amidst their own pain, restaurateurs are helping others in their communities by lending their physical spaces and staff. Keller’s ad hoc restaurant in Yountville,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

startup full-time was exciting, they also needed to tackle pressing questions and unique challenges around the right clinical problem to target and with what technological and behavioral mechanism. Would the digital therapeutics space... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

strategic questions, financial analytics, customer strategy, and operations,” she recalled. “I also found that I loved the retail space and consumer psychology.” Reformulating with an Advisor to Operator Pivot After four years in... View Details

2022
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The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19

By: Joseph G. Allen, Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber and Xiaodong Cao

Understanding of the most probable transmission routes and identifying the risk environments for disease spread should always be among the first critical steps in the response to future disease threats. This is one of the most vital public health lessons of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Buildings and Facilities; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry

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24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

is measured in other units. For example, the capacity of a warehouse or vehicle would be measured by space provided, while memory storage would be measured by megabytes supplied. In these situations, the manager would calculate the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

transportation needs). “There’s no feeling of ownership surrounding cars anymore,” says Gulati, who meets regularly with Big Three auto manufacturer executives. “Millennials don’t feel like they need to own a car because they have Zipcar and Uber. They don’t want to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2023
News

The Network Effect

contacted Mathur: “Hey, do you want to chat? There might actually be something here.” For its part, Agios solicited offers from a dozen firms in the health care credit and royalty financing space with which it had preexisting... View Details

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

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

industries During my second year at HBS I took courses like The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (BEMS) and Launching Tech Ventures (LTV) that helped me gain a profound understanding of the space I wanted to play in: the... View Details

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