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- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Feedback Shapes Social Networks By: Green, Paul, Jr., Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats Abstract—Many organizations employ interpersonal feedback processes as a structured means of informing and motivating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
illustrates the importance of embedding a scale-up strategy in the initial design of a program that aims to solve a widespread problem. In the following discussion, Kanter and Litow talk about the process through which creative,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
in the “big quit” is management. Anecdotal evidence is coming in about remote workers who join and leave organizations without having any physical contact with a colleague. Needed relationships are not developed. When someone quits, there... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Woodland Partners: Field of Dreams?
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Theodore D. Seides
Elizabeth Lilly, Richard Rinkett, and Richard Jensen are pondering whether to launch a new investment management firm and, if so, what growth strategy to chart for the potential firm. View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Theodore D. Seides. "Woodland Partners: Field of Dreams?" Harvard Business School Case 800-070, November 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
without Losing Yourself in the Process by Andy Molinsky (PhDOB 1999) (Harvard Business Review Press) What does it mean to be a global worker and a true "citizen of the world" today? Beyond merely being aware of cultural differences, it... View Details
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Employer Reimbursement Options | HBS Online
support will benefit the organization in the long run. Step 5: Be Proactive You may not always be your organization’s top priority, especially if you work for a large company with thousands of employees. Make sure to provide all necessary... View Details
- January 1998 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Tomoya Nakamura
In the summer of 1997, a consultant at Japan's Funai Consulting Co. Ltd., must decide how to respond to a client's proposal to offer "open pricing" (based on willingness to pay) to customers unable to pay the standard price for the client's product. The client, Akita... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Agribusiness; Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Consulting Industry; Japan
Paine, Lynn S., and Tomoya Nakamura. "Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 398-017, January 1998. (Revised February 2002.)
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
highlights the process through which diversity initiatives become successful and offers insight into how organizations can more effectively recruit and retain a diverse workforce. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
Name: Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99), President & CEO Company: GetConnected, Inc. (founded 1999) Size: $20M annual revenue, 100 employees Location: Boston, MA Web: www.getconnected.com Elevator pitch: GetConnected processes voice, data, and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For instance, the company is seeking a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- November 1989
- Teaching Note
H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A), (B), (C), and (D), Teaching Note
By: Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Thomas R. Piper
Teaching Note for (9-382-034, 035, 036, and 037). View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
incentive systems shape the mix of individuals who are attracted to, promoted within, and retained by the organization Know how to design organizational processes, such as hiring procedures and training programs, in ways that complement... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s Global Experience Office and by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Datar, senior associate dean, director of research, discussed his experience recently when I sat down with him and Professor David Garvin to talk about their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
team. It’s amazing what getting out of the office and onto a ropes course can do for a group. How does running Outward Bound compare with running a truck-parts company? It is similar in that you need to marshal support for an idea and direct the View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
opening up its innovation process in Silicon Valley: partnering with other organizations to integrate outside technology in its products and services; spinning out unexploited technology had proved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
stepping up alumni outreach efforts and contacting organizations that have not typically recruited at HBS. "We're asking graduates of the School to think about our young, energetic, talented students when they're making their hiring plans... View Details