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17 Apr 2009
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The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

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

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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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15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

allow for this culture shift. And that’s really critical to making sure this organization remains the premier foreign-affairs agency in the world.” Plans are currently underway to welcome a second cohort of State Department employees to the Secretary’s Leadership... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Although professors and guest experts will not have direct, real-time interactions with learners, you will hear from them via short videos that explain key concepts and guide you through cases, exercises, and other interactive learning elements to create a highly View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Disruptive Strategy will equip you with the skills and techniques to develop executive-level strategy, organize for innovation, and discover customer jobs to be done. Stay... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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John H. McArthur | About

through the School’s ranks—teaching courses in corporate finance and related fields in several HBS programs, engaging in research and course development in Europe and North America, and holding a range of important administrative... View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

widespread culture of bad behavior—or at least, a lot of people looking the other way as misconduct is taking place, he says. “You think about Wells Fargo, and there were thousands of employees engaging in these practices over many, many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

employees and executives across our global organization. Participants develop a practical understanding of critical topics like strategic thinking, innovation, management, finance, and negotiations – all rooted in a social learning environment. This approach has made... View Details

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

largely unconscious and universal. They are "metaphors" because they recast everything we think about, hear, say, and do. Because deep metaphors shape the way we engage the world, an understanding of them is necessary to explain... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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HBS - The year in Review

Force, a group of 25 students, alumni, faculty, and staff who engaged an even broader swath of the community in devising its recommendations. The plan seeks to advance anti-racism education and research, support the Black community at HBS... View Details

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

a startup. Most importantly, I’m ending this summer with the confidence that I can be a founder. Rea: This summer, our focus was to comprehensively understand India's solar irrigation landscape. We conducted field interviews with over 100 farmers and View Details

14 Feb 2017
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A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

Listening only to information sources and opinions that reinforce their own views carries great risk of missing alternate points of view. Instead, leaders need to tap into myriad sources covering the full spectrum of viewpoints by View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

02 Apr 2001
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Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

people to lay off. If, on the other hand, you acquire a company because it is developing a hot technology, your challenge is to hold on to the acquisition's best engineers. These two scenarios require the acquiring company to engage in... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

March 2025
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Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani

The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details

Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning

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05 Oct 2016
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Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

11 Apr 2016
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Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

Gran a y Montero (the oldest and largest construction company in Peru) We propose reputation can be an antecedent that allows firms to engage in change. We suggest that reputation, at its core, provides stability; maintaining a favorable... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

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 stakeholder groups, and made efforts... View Details

25 Apr 2011
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What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

firm." In order to test whether this was true, the researchers enlisted 94 CEOs of major Italian corporations who agreed to put their lives under the microscope for a period of a week at a time. The CEO's personal assistant was asked to record every activity the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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