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Application Requirements - Doctoral

an essential component of the PhD program, all students must submit an official writing assessment. As the GMAT Focus lacks a writing section, HBS will contact you at the interview stage about taking the separate GMAC Business Writing... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

you’re passive about making time for what matters, you’ll likely be forced out of routine by something (likely negative) outside of your control. Or as someone we interviewed for our research succinctly put it: if you don’t take a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms

By: Shelby Gai, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Andy Wu
Our study introduces board committees as a crucial determinant of board actions. We examine how directors who structurally link different board committees—referred to as multi-committee directors (MCDs)—explain why some board actions are merely symbolic while others... View Details
Keywords: Board Committees; Board Monitoring; New Director Nomination; Peer Financial Restatements; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 2020
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Leading the Charge: A Podcase about Product Management at Opower

By: Jeffrey Rayport and John J. Lafkas
The Opower podcase materials contain audio from professor Jeffrey Rayport's interview with Ben Foster, the former vice president of product management at Opower, and more recently the co-founder of Prodify. In the podcase, Ben discusses how product management works in... View Details
Keywords: Product; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Conflict Management; Software
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  • 2015
  • Article

What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Values and Beliefs
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  • 08 Oct 2024
  • Video

The power of diversity

  • October 2019
  • Case

A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 26 Jun 2015
  • Video

Into the FIELD

  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

skills, more women that meet those requirements are likely to apply. Women hold fewer leadership positions The article, titled “Whether to Apply,” opens with a question that a BBC interviewer posed to Donna Strickland, a Canadian Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 03 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

course. His research and consulting work focus on the fundamental transformation of the energy industry in light of rapid technological change and climate change-related pressures. Professor Weiss is a faculty affiliate of BEI. In this View Details

    What Does "Stakeholder Capitalism" Mean to You?

    Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details

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    Admissions & Financial Aid - MBA

    materials required for the MBA application, plus one supplemental essay, and one optional essay. All materials submitted for the MBA application will be shared with SEAS for use in review of the Master of Science application. 2 Interview... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

    A proposal out of Harvard and MIT to rethink how kidney transplants are allocated could result in a fairer system giving patients longer lives. The new empirical model, which is intensely data driven, would provide a flexible framework to policymakers responsible for... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
    • 2021
    • White Paper

    The Future of Boston's Workforce: The Path Forward from COVID-19

    By: Will Dorsey Eden, Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
    In response to the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic on Greater Boston’s economy and workforce, the Boston Foundation, Skillworks, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard partnered to convene workforce leaders from across the region to address how might... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Workforce; Pandemic; Labor Market; Health Pandemics; Labor; Employment; Organizations; Cooperation; Strategic Planning; Boston
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    • 22 Jan 2015
    • News

    Food Safety in Numbers

    • 11 May 2020
    • News

    Professor Frances Frei talks Uber, WeWork & more

      DISCOVER YOUR TRUE NORTH

      The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leaders

      Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North.... View Details

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      Business & Environment

      how climate issues are being handled in the boardroom and to determine what good climate governance looks like in practice, the authors interviewed 20 directors who hold leadership positions on the boards of S&P 500 companies. Drawing... View Details
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      The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      The Interview Process Spreading the Word Next The "Hawthorne Effect" The “Hawthorne Effect” What Mayo urged in broad outline has become part of the orthodoxy of modern management. Abraham Zaleznik, Professor of Leadership, Emeritus,... View Details