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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
in 1968. Since her appointment to the faculty in 1971, she has been a driving force in recruiting women for prominent roles at HBS and has inspired legions of MBAs to pursue careers as health-care entrepreneurs and managers. As a pioneer in opening new options for... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
received the simple prompt, 37.1 obtained a flu shot at the firm's on-site clinic—an increase of 4.2 percentage points over those who received a standard, no-prompt reminder. Beshears held the research as case in point that field research can be mutually beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
among others. Opening up participation to nontraditional actors resulted in the sort of truly novel perspectives that can lead to breakthroughs in an established field of research. Often the complaint in academia is that our research is... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercialization gap left by companies, “universities will have to be very careful that they don’t shift too far into doing the commercial work,” Roche says. “Because what academia has afforded for so many decades is the freedom to do... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Economy”. The virtual symposium attracted over 500 professionals across academia and industry, from investors to policy makers, to engage in discussion, debate, and share ideas about the future of energy in a new economy shaped by COVID,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
and academia on issues including executive compensation, limits to board effectiveness, capital market intermediaries, and the role of management education. These highly informative sessions stimulated new thinking and will form a basis... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
factored in." Walter P. Blass noted that in academia the search is usually run by a search committee, but the nomination needs the approval of the next level to that position. "That way, you get input from affected... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
experts across industry and academia to discuss the policies, innovations, financing, opportunities, and complexities of climate change in the business context. Built collaboratively by the Business and Environment Initiative and the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
will come only from a systemic, well-choreographed approach to creating positive change. This insight was clear at a symposium of leaders from business, labor, government, the media, and academia that convened at Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Three conferences sponsored by student organizations at HBS in January brought together alumni, students, and experts from business, government, and academia to discuss a wide range of topical issues. Summaries of those conferences... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
mistake I’ve seen others make is to be dishonest or subtly disparaging of other job market candidates. Accounting academia is a small, friendly field. Everyone knows everyone else. If a candidate says something mean or untrue at one... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
effect of this pandemic would severely impact the black undergraduate population. Far too many black students graduate with just academia on their resume, and I wanted to use this program as an opportunity to keep those students on the... View Details
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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
business so that I could talk effectively about it, and also some knowledge of numbers. I think that, in order for women to be credible in business or academia or government, you have to sound knowledgeable and confident, and that's the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
even if consumer finance was still unpopular. While it might have taken a crisis to convince some, we believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
business world and academia had a distinct advantage. He went back to the Pentagon to try to change the way the military engaged with civilians, then to serve at the White House. In 2007, he retired as an Air Force Deputy Assistant... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
initiatives." As the research process progresses, outside factors continue to make their mark, including scientific advances licensed from academia and even product teams acquired and brought in from other firms. "All... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Central University, and at the apogee of research, the Academia Sinica), accompanied by a creative set of private colleges and universities (Yenching University, St. John's University, and Peking Union Medical College, to name but a few).... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Law School and Design School, this year's conference hosted over fifty speakers from business, government, and academia in the United States and Asia. Panels focused on the economic future of countries such as Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
(SEAS), and Harvard Medical School (HMS) will generate a range of output that will influence academia and practice. The labs will also help establish Harvard as a center for groundbreaking research on digital-, data-, and design-related... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
March 2006; and "Aggregation, Precision, and Contracting with a Long-Horizon Agent in a Multi-Task Setting," a HBS Working Paper from April 2006. Ann Cullen: How did you get interested in this topic? Romana Autrey: Career concerns affect every industry, even... View Details