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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA

Air Force Academy; History major Military experience : US Air Force Intelligence Officer; current US Air Force Reserve Intelligence Officer What do you think helped you stand out during the application process? As an Intelligence Officer, I had the opportunity to lead... View Details

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

The 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding last year stirred reflection about the country’s image, values, and position in the world among everyone from former diplomats to Hollywood actors. Despite efforts to portray Israel as modern and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

problem, the researchers say. Despite growing awareness and activism, the wage gap has remained largely unchanged for the last 15 years, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, which found that in 2020, women earned 84... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

leading innovation in changing environment.” 1. Understand the opportunity paradox How can organizations capture new growth most effectively? “If you’re doing something new, it is inevitably going to be difficult,” McDonald says. The Burton snowboard company is a prime... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

passed away and inheritance taxes struck, Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis took decisive action to preserve her family’s fortune and legacy. The Thurn und Taxis family, one of Europe’s oldest aristocratic dynasties, had built their wealth through the View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

and water, rather than fossil fuels, as feedstocks we can use clean electricity to produce all the organic compounds we need.” David Chan MBA 2018 | CCO, Head of Business Development, & Founding Team Member,... View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

defining what is a fair distribution of attention in a ranking, and then developing an algorithm that achieves this distribution,” says Sühr. The research team found that fair-ranking algorithms are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

based on "industry best-in-class performance measures or direct competitors," Hope and Fraser write; and give teams "an extended period of time to reach them"—two to three years. Atlanta-based eye-care company CIBA... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

attracting corporate customers who trusted them more than the traditional power company. They also found new applications of their solar cells along the way. "It’s always amazing to me to see how ubiquitous resistance to change is,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

of current and future teachers, calls for values-motivated screening or divestment always posed an inherently complex challenge. Having spearheaded the development of Principles for a Responsible Civilian Firearm Industry released on November 14, 2018, what if... View Details

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Overall, with these assurances, more than 50 percent of companies were willing to hire workers with criminal histories. “They feel more comfortable about who they’re hiring,” Cullen says. The incentives might be cost effective, too. The View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

When Priti Rathi Gupta (OPM 49, 2017) was 16 years old, her father handed her his investment portfolio and asked her what she could make of it. She was befuddled. "He realized that, although I had schooling in what we call commerce, I didn't really know much about... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

apprenticing in their junior year of high school. Each first-year apprentice works 16 hours per week during the school year. Fuller and colleagues tracked 232 CareerWise apprentices during 2017 and 2018 and found that of those completing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

commitment, and trust in the long term. What do employers need to get right with their return-to-work policies? 1. Make sure your policy has legitimacy. Take a close look at what employees were able to do during the pandemic. Many companies View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

found that if someone is strongly disliked, it's almost irrelevant whether or not she is competent; people won't want to work with her anyway. By contrast, if someone is liked, his colleagues will seek out every little bit of competence... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

of our founding team– Ling Lin (College, 2012), now part of the Meta team focused on climate, and BEI leaders Lynn Schenk, Courtney Fairbrother, and Elise Clarkson. Out of this, the Harvard i-lab, HBS BEI,... View Details

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

more than 250,000 invitees, resulting in 150 research ideas and hypotheses. The goal of opening up idea generation and disaggregating the different stages of the research process was to expand the number and range of people who might participate. Today, seven View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

running and investing in large companies were doing quite well. But working- and middle-class Americans were struggling, as were many small businesses. The most promising efforts we found to restore shared prosperity were local,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

participants’ responses to various imaginary scenarios, the research team found that White participants’ wariness about living near people of different backgrounds drove them to structure their lives to... View Details