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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Student diversity enhances learning and can present both challenges and opportunities for discussion leadership. Some of these challenges/opportunities relate to identities that may be visible (e.g.,... View Details

12 May 2021
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The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

in common. SB: “We are astonishingly similar. We both came to the US from China for our undergraduate studies and we both started working here after college. Career-wise, both of us were in private equity—thank god we weren’t in the same... View Details

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

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

Offices may look just as they did in March 2020, but many companies attempting to welcome workers back are finding that the rules of engagement have changed. For many employees, the sweet freedom of remote work has turned into bitterness... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

Corporate culture is often thought of as a hard-to-define, or soft concept in management circles. Soft not in the sense that it isn't important—most CEOs will tell you that their ability to inculcate values and mission into the DNA of a firm is among the most important... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

in the heat of conflict this became a secondary concern. Just two weeks after the first flare-up, Impress announced that it would be taking its business elsewhere. Kristen worked in a division of RLX that had few dealings with Impress,... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

determine how to lift WTP in ways that don’t rely on scale 5 hrs Module 4 Creating Value for Talent Discover ways to make work more attractive for your employees, understand the difference between lowering WTS and reducing compensation,... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

that support you wherever life takes you next. Learn More about the HBS Online Learning Model HBS Online vs. Other Top Business Schools with Online, Asynchronous Courses HBS Online HBSO Others Considered more impactful than other online... View Details

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. How often have you heard a manager blame... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential downside of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

alumni-founded ventures across the globe, and a wet-lab building for life sciences ventures. It is overseen by Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration and the Peter O. Crisp Chair of the Harvard... View Details

28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

excellent runner and that this distinction would be noticed by the people I worked for. It was an interesting way to say that whatever you do, do it well - and it's something I've never forgotten. Would you want your kids to do what you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

stay-at-home mompreneurs, the work got done in whatever bits of time she could steal from the day. When her daughter, Della, enrolled in a dance class in Harlem that year, Dixon would drive her Jetta wagon with “WOKE” plates and SiriusXM... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

policies, agreements, and plans, as well as forums (like boards, family councils, and annual meetings of the owners) to develop the plans, agreements, rules, and policies, to address important issues and to work out differences. One very... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

31 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Building a DTC Brand Through COVID

Farah Azmi is a rising EC student at HBS and proud member of Section B. Farah spent her undergrad at University of Utah, majoring in finance. She worked at Barclays in investment banking and after at Tommy Hilfiger in corporate strategy.... View Details

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SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:... View Details

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

Authors:Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas Publication:Chap. 9 in Legends in Marketing: Philip Kotler, 114-122. Sage, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235569 View Details