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Jonathan Evans
with students of astounding diversity - attracted me to HBS. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? My two years at HBS have been formative. My experience has shaped my View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
inequities in education. What are your goals for this summer? I had several goals for this internship. Firstly, I wanted to deepen my understanding of the education sector, including its diverse... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
connectedness online. The School currently has e-mail addresses for some thirty thousand alumni -- nearly half the active alumni base. The goal is to increase this number to fifty thousand by June. Access to many useful online services is... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Board Leader, and Transitions and Transformations. Long-term goals for this committee include determining which programs resonate with alumni and then defining a well-targeted marketing effort to increase cross-class and total alumni... View Details
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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting
directly aligns with healthcare professionals’ collective goals and individual purposes. Appealing to employees’ motivations enables leaders to help team members unite under a common goal. By extension, setting the stage for employees to... View Details
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
- January 1985 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Conex do Brasil
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and John Young
Describes interactions between Brazilian local, Latin American regional, and USA headquarters staff during the three years after establishing a manufacturing subsidiary in Sao Paulo. In a highly protected national environment, a market entry plan is developed to meet... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Resignation and Termination; Goals and Objectives; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Performance Expectations; Opportunities; Corporate Strategy; Latin America; United States; Brazil
Bartlett, Christopher A., and John Young. "Conex do Brasil." Harvard Business School Case 385-257, January 1985. (Revised March 2003.)
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Jewish Students Association | MBA
resource to develop, inform, support, and enrich the Jewish community on campus. Our goals are to encourage student participation in Jewish events, build stronger ties among Jewish students and nearby Jewish organizations, and foster a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
fixing this gap. For 40 years, economists have drawn from the well of Utilitarian theory—which has the goal of maximizing overall well-being in society—to help design tax systems in the United States and around the world. Although the... View Details
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Fangfang Wang
festival” to inspire consumer interest. Using private sector techniques to reach public sector goals Earlier in her career, when Fangfang had served as an assistant to the United Nation’s Development Program, she realized that the U.N.’s... View Details
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Andrew Goldin
for important issues with their local communities." Support for his goals Andrew says HBS has been "extremely generous with financial aid and with helping me resolve finances, especially with the summer fellowship. They've... View Details
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IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology
best practices, and consultation. “One of our project goals is to bring to the community a user-centered content editing experience. With this new CMS we are achieving that goal and further deepening our... View Details
- Portrait Project
Caitlin Roman
progressed, I set a goal of flying out of lines, though I did not fully understand the potential for injury. When I fractured my spine, however, these risks became excruciatingly clear – along with my overriding desire to get back on the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
After an eye-opening experience as a volunteer mentor, former auto executive Susan Schooner (MBA 1983) launched Girls Group, an organization designed to economically and emotionally support middle and high school girls in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area. Founded in 2003,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
activities and to facilitate new work that will enhance our understanding of this important field.” “Our main goal is to increase our critical mass in this field by fostering a community of faculty, researchers, students, and alumni that... View Details
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Xiao Wang
I will make dreams come true. No, I cannot make you fly or find true love. But I can help with the goals that we set for ourselves every New Year's Day - that this is the year I will become fitter, feel more energized, and live a... View Details
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Jennifer Tom
superpowers have indeed developed. They are just a little different from those of typical superheroes. I may not yet be able to fly, but for the rest of my life, I will use my powers to battle evil. It is a hefty goal to save the... View Details
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Being a Student at HBS | MBA
leaders through a process of active participation and shared learning. Its goal is to create an environment in which students learn how to tackle difficult, complex problems by probing issues, expressing and challenging ideas, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For the Greater Good
difference I can make in the world. My goal is not to make the most difference or put it on a competitive level or do the most what I can. But I try and be thoughtful and do something at whatever level that could have a positive influence... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
Speaking up in situations where there are safety concerns can save lives, which directly aligns with healthcare professionals’ collective goals and individual purposes. Appealing to employees’ motivations enables leaders to help team... View Details
Keywords: All Industries