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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

effective, easy-to-grasp framework some of the world’s best companies use to create value and achieve outstanding financial performance. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

People walking on the street transitions into data points on a map Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added... View Details

21 Mar 2024
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SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

building and developing leaders in such an insular and risk-free environment. While leading the small group case discussions, I learned to question ideas, push the conversation forward, and approach each conversation with a student... View Details

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

well in some aspects of the job but not in others. Avoid creating a system that plays favorites or denies people the opportunity to improve. Tie rewards clearly to performance. Ideally, this should be done at both the individual and group... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the Internet Universe’ and by Fortune as the CEO of one of the 10 most innovative companies in the US. Companies he founded were selected as both the ‘hottest’ and ‘coolest’ emerging companies by business publications. Shikhar joined the Boston Consulting View Details

23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality... View Details

20 Oct 2015
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What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

friends use is “overwhelming”. I agree with this - you can expect your RC year to be very intense both from academic and social perspectives. Firstly, the academic schedule is packed. The discussion group starts every day at 8:00am, so I... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health... View Details

17 Jan 2011
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Being the Boss

report to you. But unless you manage the context in which your team resides, there's no way that your team can be successful. So you have to understand the political dynamics, you have to understand how to build a network with peers and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

arrangements, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2023
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Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

work tirelessly to make sure that HBS women are supported in their professional endeavors. The WSA has become known for their “final review sessions,” where RC (first-year) women take the stage in Klarman Hall and present the content covered during the term to their... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners... View Details

04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

events, and tight-knit joint degree cohorts all add to a very rich experience as members of both HBS and HKS. The joint degree cohort is a close-knit group Taniel: I did not expect to get as close to the joint degree family as quickly as... View Details

31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

capital labor pool, Hispanics have been around 2%, and African Americans have been less than 1%. This is despite the fact that all three groups have much higher representation in education programs that lead to careers in these sectors as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

accountability reports can be used to determine whether and how those reports create or destroy value for shareholders and other constituencies. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1934322 Working PapersUnder-Savers Anonymous: Evidence... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

experience at HLS and HBS because students take their first-year classes with their section peers. Since the first two years of the program allow for joint degree students to have the same experience as their peers solely at HLS or HBS,... View Details

12 Sep 2023
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Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

peer group of founders who are all working on innovative solutions to tackle climate change. The Climate Circle is run by the Harvard Innovation Labs i-lab along with Harvard Alumni for Climate and the... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend: Senior-level management from health... View Details

09 Jan 2006
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When Benchmarks Don’t Work

Benchmarking certainly has its virtues. Comparing production time or the cost of a standard process to that of peer companies can yield important insights about your own efficiencies—and ultimately, competitiveness. But benchmarking also... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

assignment. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during,... View Details

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