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Judging Success - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

students demonstrate appropriate progress in the substantive discovery and learning envisioned for the class session? In terms of process, was there a healthy balance between instructor guidance View Details

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

I’m happy to concede some territory here: I’m not convinced it’s essential to running the company that I can derive WACC or read Balance of Payments statements. This argument does, though, undervalue the soft stuff that is taught View Details

01 Jun 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

Above: Dowling at home in New York City: “There’s no one model for being a working parent.” Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) had built a successful career in leadership development and executive coaching at Goldman Sachs View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

kind—of someone who could achieve so much in his career and yet have the strength and wisdom to keep balance in his life, and pursue agendas far... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Shardule Shah

“Daddy! Where’s my magic wand?!” screamed Siyona, my four-year old daughter. “I’m sorry. I’ll be back,” I told a potential investor on a videoconference. Previously, I would have lamented this interruption. But we live in a new world. Work is life View Details

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

Marketing Negotiation News & Events Productivity Staff Spotlight Strategy Student Profiles Technology Work-Life Balance Courses Courses AI Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business Strategy Business View Details

23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

admitting that balancing her career and family takes work. Although Harris is brimming with confidence, she is not one to brag. Her life’s remarkable trajectory—including being the subject of an HBS case... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2010
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James Dimon, MBA 1982

and management practices are legendary — as a strategist who can integrate fractured businesses; as a dealmaker who bought two failing banks during the extraordinary circumstances of the past two years; as a relentless risk manager who... View Details

03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

boss make a difference? Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have written about "how to manage around a weakness" not by changing people but by balancing "the strengths View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

dedicated to adaptation efforts, highlighting the need for a more balanced approach. Striking a balance between mitigation and adaptation is crucial for addressing the... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

Beekeeper’s Naturals, Hill House Home, Kosas, Olive & June, and Saie. Tina is a thought leader and strategist whose extensive network, hands-on approach, and sharp instincts... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

sticking to principles every day, considering all the hard work involved. "He told me he thought it had 'a negative net present value.'" “It's a travesty that somehow our society has gotten to a point where people have the view that science View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2022
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The Beauty Guide

selves. It’s good not only for her employees but also for business. “We all know that when you have diverse points of views, that is when the business thrives,” she notes. Freyre recognizes that employees face challenges in trying to View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

23 Mar 2023
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Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

cooperative ownership model, but also in any organization-wide sustainability transformation. The Arla team was very intentional about balancing near-term economic value to farmers with long-term environmental value to all of their... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Aug 2003
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How New Managers Become Great Managers

particular job.10 Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful and systematic introspection. People should seek out diverse experiences to facilitate and View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2008
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THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

basically disengage from the work. Unfortunately, downsizing will remain a fact of life, which means that leaders need to focus on the things that get hit. Communication and collaboration decline significantly. So too does people’s sense... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

refusing to deal with this horrific disease as it spread through Africa. Multinational companies have to be more like Genzyme and find ways to balance their huge global power with their assumption of global... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

negative. Part of the brilliance of Land's process lay in rethinking the use of the unexposed crystals. In his instant photography process, a hypo solution carried the silver from the dissolved grains and deposited it on the receiving... View Details

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