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01 Jun 2024
News

Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

things. The prevalence of this kind of condition is actually quite high in our society, so it’s a real shame if we are not engaging those people.” NEURODIVERSITY IN PRACTICE Sonne and Specialisterne have helped several companies set up... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

to engage with unfamiliar topics and start conversations on how to learn from even those who they may disagree with." The day provided many different chances for the attendees to network, including coffee breaks in between panels and... View Details

17 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services

2024
Book

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

Keywords: Retirement

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18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Global Business will help participants assess opportunities, mitigate risk, and create and capture value for their organization Stay active by engaging in a new activity every... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy, the theory posits that addictions are not necessarily irrational. Rather, people often willingly engage in a particular behavior, despite knowing that it will increase their desire to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2013
News

Mind Your Manners

2012). Her clients, who are often globe-trotting managers of state-owned firms doing business in the West, "are very keen to learn about how to engage with foreigners; they want to learn an established set of rules for courteousness... View Details

Keywords: etiquette; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

night. Unlike the routine habits or obligations people feel they must get done, relationship rituals are pleasurable experiences that hold significance, acting as symbolically meaningful signs of a solid and happy partnership. Couples who are deliberate about View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

course to engage with the platform either privately, with only the student and Bussgang able to see the interactions, or publicly, so all in the course could see. Bussgang found the chatbot to be a useful tool, providing him with a unique... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

effective development professional. Fortunately, I discovered the MBA/MPA-ID program while working on McKinsey engagements with HBS and HKS alumni such as Amandla Ooko-Ombaka (MBA/ MPA-ID 2016) and Philip Osafo-Kwaako (PEG PhD 2012) and I... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Specialized Knowledge As A Public Good; Renunciation Of Profit Maximization To be able to set and enforce standards of admission to a profession, determine how professional work is to be done, engage in self-regulation rather than be... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Peter Gumulia

of not being as effective as in-person education. While there is truth to this claim, there are ways to deliver an effective and engaging online learning experience. If we can provide effective learning outcomes [through online education]... View Details

27 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

Keywords: by Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart & Michael L. Tushman

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

to all industries that are willing to engage in collaborative efforts to upgrade competitiveness (Ketels, 2010). The role of exports in a competitiveness-oriented growth strategy While the competitiveness-oriented approach provides a... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

causing researchers to miss vital information outside of their fields that could lead to new breakthroughs? “We find that generalists end up doing things not only earlier, but end up having more impact than folks who are more specialized when they View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details