Filter Results
:
(227)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (227)
- Faculty Publications (10)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (227)
- Faculty Publications (10)
- Profile
Jay Khil
mindset to the busy world of HBS,” Jay says. “There’s so much to do and so many people to meet. You have to learn time-management skills and how to prioritize.” Jay could not rest on her international...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to...
View Details
Keywords:
Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
evidence of management ability and leadership potential, while Tamblyn probes for hard analytical skills. Yet both scrutinize resumes with the equivalent of “x-ray specs,” hoping to find hidden qualities that could be meaningful for their...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience in the Joint MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program
engineers. We all kind of connect on a certain level because we all have an interest in staying somewhat technical, but we also came back to school. We came to get an MBA. We all have high ambitions for ourselves and high hopes of what we View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
with companies in person to find that right fit. Most often, these students are looking for opportunities at organizations that simply hire as needed and real time; which often may be post-graduation. These students have the mindset...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
mindset to make you more strategic or more efficient with your time—but there’s not much research on that yet. Recently, we studied how people could spend their discretionary income to promote happiness:...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
commitment to bringing on talented Summer Associates who could contribute to the firm now and in the future, the team pressed on with a ‘how’ mindset as they worked to create an engaging and impactful summer...
View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
reviews are actually the single most important input to our new product development process. We make sure that our new products start from the needs that customers express,” Yang said in an interview in 2016. “Traditional businesses should embrace the View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
demonstrated the negative effects on decision-making under distress. We are conducting a series of experiments to better quantify the impacts on service operations and to identify ways that the operating design could improve both the...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
well as what the solutions should be and what they really could be given the real and practical constraints we face. This “method” of thinking has become my de facto mindset whenever I’m in the field with...
View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
to an ordinary autobiographical memory, like grocery shopping or driving to work) increased their desire to pursue social goals such as forming deep relationships and made them more confident that they could successfully achieve those...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
could choose either an organic or a nonorganic option—a carton of milk, for example. In monitoring what they called "indulgent" purchases, the researchers looked at sugary items like ice cream and candy bars, as well as salty...
View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
to a law degree that spoke to Ramirez. “Econ was the one that made things make sense. It was quantitative enough and also just theoretical enough,” she shared. “Also, I needed to make sure that I could get a job. So, it was transferable...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
protectionism could prevent nations from achieving the gains - in household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality-of-life metrics - of cross-border openness. Ghemawat describes how private businesses, policymakers,...
View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
our business. We have built a business that is, despite our small scale, has a very clear track record of profitability, and have had the fundraising challenges And his response was "Well, you're not really a fast-growing business." And he's right. He was applying a...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
challenges then are first, to screen and prioritize the multitude of possible new applications, and second, to shift the mindset of an organization that has held the identity of an ‘imaging’ company for decades.” The case details how...
View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
capital. But I had the mistaken idea that entrepreneurship is learned exclusively through experience, and that mindset kept my previous small businesses from being as successful as they could have been. At...
View Details
- Web
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) - Recruiting
and also just theoretical enough,” she shared. “Also, I needed to make sure that I could get a job. So, it was transferable and relatable into a career.” Halfway through college, Ramirez confirmed that becoming a lawyer was not an ideal...
View Details
- Web
Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
uncertain: a down market has led firms to curtail hiring and lower the threshold for termination, developments in AI raise questions about the fundamental value of the individual consultant. Bright students who could once rely on...
View Details