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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

US and unique collaborations with impact investing peers and graduate schools, their mission remains central to their work. Over the past three years, three interns from HBS have joined teams within Bridges Fund Management, working in new... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Unleashing Capability Featured Exercises Explore the internal drivers of your motivations as a leader through the Personal Values Questionnaire self-assessment Video upload: Deepen your understanding of how others experience you as a leader through recording yourself... View Details

12 Sep 2024
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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS

business in a specific country, etc.). Students are often excited by the opportunity to experience the business environment of a new geography, but sharing in this common experience with a group of like-minded View Details

02 Nov 2023
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Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience

the lessons you learned from foundational classes to a complex real-world consulting project at the end of your first year. With a diverse group of peers, there is an opportunity to have a genuinely positive effect on different companies... View Details

24 Jan 2023
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Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

SVMP cohort led me to embrace my differences and speak confidently (and humbly) about my accomplishments. Through discussion groups and networking sessions, I formed close bonds with members of my cohort, bonds which have persisted beyond... View Details

08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

dead wrong. And when the rules failed, the reason was always the same: Companies trip up when they try to attract large volumes of customers without understanding (1) the strength of mutual attraction among various customer groups and (2)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Both on and off campus, there are many opportunities for students to engage in social enterprise focused activities and community building. Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum Through carefully tailored content and small peer View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

well in some aspects of the job but not in others. Avoid creating a system that plays favorites or denies people the opportunity to improve. Tie rewards clearly to performance. Ideally, this should be done at both the individual and group... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

business scenarios alongside a global community of peers through our Active, Social, Case-Based learning model. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking View Details

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

Facilitators are fully engaged members of the Circle and, aside from their special responsibilities, engage in the conversation as peers and not leaders. Facilitators are gentle guides for discussion, time management, View Details

19 Jan 2023
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What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

products were grouped in 241 “style-colors'' and sizes. When the allocators received a recommendation from an interpretable algorithm, they often overruled it based on their own intuition. But when the same allocators had a recommendation... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the Internet Universe’ and by Fortune as the CEO of one of the 10 most innovative companies in the US. Companies he founded were selected as both the ‘hottest’ and ‘coolest’ emerging companies by business publications. Shikhar joined the Boston Consulting View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Emotions Featured Exercises Negotiation simulation (Discount and Hawkins: Crafting Terms and Conditions) Peer feedback 8-10 hrs Module 4 Negotiation Mastery: Forging Agreement within Groups and Organizations... View Details

13 Jan 2020
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Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

it with their employees. In the study’s most disturbing finding, employee wages actually dropped an average of 2 percent (again relative to peer firms) in the two years following the buyout. “It seems essentially all of the pie is going... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

20 Oct 2015
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What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

friends use is “overwhelming”. I agree with this - you can expect your RC year to be very intense both from academic and social perspectives. Firstly, the academic schedule is packed. The discussion group starts every day at 8:00am, so I... View Details

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Public Education Leadership Project

backgrounds, industries, and school districts across the U.S. Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Gain... View Details

21 Aug 2020
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Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

in student organizations, journals, and clubs at both schools. We’re a group with pretty eclectic interests, and through both the formal seminar and the informal one we put together on off years, I’ve learned about new areas of the law,... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Concepts Develop a robust set of vital and forward-looking business skills to grow as a leader Engage with a global cohort of like-minded peers and build a network that lasts far beyond the program Practice effective teamwork and... View Details

16 Oct 2017
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The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

how these management skills can be acquired through peer networks, the researchers partnered with the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRIT), a think tank that promotes the growth of Indian software product companies. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Generative AI - Alumni

virtually are all important aspects of the interview that generative A.I. cannot help to prepare you for. And responding on your own to written prompts isn’t as effective as practicing in the moment with a peer or a career coach. But GPT... View Details

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