Writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

beautiful experience.” Note to Readers: Please use Comments to share your own car-buying experience, suggestions to the auto industry for improvement, and what other consumer nightmares we should be writing about. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in accounting and management at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

direction. Some instructors do this by writing a brief agenda or roadmap on the board ‘Setting the scene’ by using props, product samples, audio and video clips, or visual imagery (e.g. commercials, interviews, physical space images)... View Details

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Shira Asa-El

which ultimately led me to where I am today. What is your favorite childhood memory? My first summer at MEET (Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow) when I was 15. Marina, who lived in Ramallah, and I struggled together in front of a computer screen to View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

arrive on their desk flagged as marketing or finance issues; part of the challenge is problem identification. Then the challenge is to design a feasible and integrated solution that works for the entire business unit. You're A Case Study GMP participants don't just... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

from your team for what they need to be most productive/engaged Set clear expectations and definitions of success along with systems to track progress to ensure employees can independently and collaborative work towards goals. Utilize asynchronous View Details

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

and was on an expressway to great misfortune. My professor told me I wasn’t dumb—I just didn’t know how to write or think critically. He taught me, and I ended up on the dean’s list.” Momentary mentor: “When I was 21, I didn’t know what I... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

a step-by-step guide to writing your brand positioning statement to differentiate from competitors and attract and retain customers. [...] Read more 16 Oct 2024 What to Expect from HBS Online's AI Essentials for Business Course Kate... View Details

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

programs of treatment providers like Hazelden Betty Ford and Caron Treatment Centers. His ultimate message is one of hope. That’s what he didn’t know in the beginning: “I wish I had known that there was hope, a lot of hope, and that recovery was likely to happen for my... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

resource usage. The section on choosing your resources provides guidelines for doing this. Running a Program/Submitting a Job There are two sets of methods of running programs and jobs on the HBS compute Grid: using default submission (wrapper) scripts or by View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

manufacturing jobs as a share of total non-farm employment have fallen from 20% to 10% over the same time frame." Worse yet, there is the possibility that the jobs created today and tomorrow may not be as good as the factory jobs of the past. After View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

made a difference in the world for many others, he said. Their success reflects their values and uniqueness; they were not people who tried to copy anyone else. "None of them wanted to be set up as paragons," Stevenson told the audience. "They didn't... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang - MBA

info session for what I thought was for getting an MBA, and instead turned out to be about doctoral programs in business schools. Becoming a faculty member is a long and winding process (with a lot of soul searching and years spent collecting data and View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

your phone. Whether you write out your thoughts in a journal or talk with a trusted mentor, consider the current state of your organization and ask: What are our capability gaps? Does our current team reflect our current and future... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

Portrait Project

Nishi Anand

“Look! My new college!” Dad said, smiling ear to ear, on a video call. He was pointing towards students sitting on a dirt floor and a teacher writing on a cracked blackboard perched on a tree. Despite the scant facilities, dad looked... View Details

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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Case Protagonists at HBS - MBA