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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing empire. It was not working. The... View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
is possible to be successful on one's own, or did they think it necessary to have a large group supporting one another? To what degree did they believe money was important to be happy? Do people who put effort into working end up better,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
property, the war also brought to an end the deepest Depression in history. Moreover, the decades after the war witnessed more rapid economic growth than the world had ever seen, not least in the vanquished countries. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?
public service. The combination of degrees allows JD/MBA students to be thinkers and doers, giving us the tools to work through challenging problems and implement effective, timely solutions. Tian: Similar to Zach, I wanted to build some... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
Initially aiming to recruit 1-2 summer interns to support me in my endeavor, I ended up hiring an amazing and diverse team of six interns who are as excited about the idea as I am. Given my background in mechanical engineering, I was... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
veterans to also think strategically about careers, goals, and desired end states before determining what path they must take to get there. The Harvard JD/MBA program is a versatile and immensely beneficial professional development... View Details
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
But it isn't easy. It requires that carefully-selected individuals possessing deep smarts devote significant amounts of time to the coaching of a self-selected protégé by creating a learning process that the authors term "guided experience" (including... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
their skills, and move them up the skill and pay ladders,” says Eckert, with robots replacing only the bottom rungs. “You’re not finding 21-year-olds coming out of school and wanting to go into manufacturing. In China, there is actually a declining population of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee Responsibilities at Scale: What Can We Learn from Google? Review and Self-Reflection Featured Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
the birth and midlife phases of business products and ideas," Raman observes. "We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses. What drew us to this problem is that death, or the process of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
to recruit Black students as “painfully insufficient.” He also cited the same inadequate results for recruiting Black faculty and staff. He might as well have been talking about most major business schools; the problem is not unique to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out of my control. So it's how do you set a vision? How do you hire the right team and empower them?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
how viable the dream. “We tackle the problems that are faced by almost any founder no matter what industry they are in, no matter what country they are in, and no matter what time frame they are in-boom or bust.” "We tackle the View Details
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Taylor Wiegele
SpaceX culture," he missed the consumer connection. After eight months, as his designs were becoming clear, he began looking toward the MBA. "I wanted to enable new technologies, to give them legs," he says. "How can you position technology to solve... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
Yet Hudson couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunity. The problem of homelessness in Miami-Dade had improved over the previous two decades. In 1996, there were an estimated 8,000 people in the area without stable housing (a figure that... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Given the nature of some unusually thoughtful responses, there was no consensus on the question of whether Walmart has reached its full potential. Comments raised even more interesting questions surrounding the dynamic of relationships between the benefits of scale and... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne