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04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

‘The requirements have changed’ In a world where business is reckoning with issues like climate change, racial inequities, and gender bias, “we’re going through a massive transformation in leadership,” George says. “Boomers were trained... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

being paid,” Rouen says. “If the person above me is making a lot more money than I am, but I feel like I could work harder and get promoted to get the same salary, I will be motivated to do that.” Other researchers backed the concept of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

during the course of their careers, from the value of their homes to the promotions they received. Nicholas also verified whether workers attended prestigious GE training retreats. "Higher-ranked employees at GE were more susceptible to a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare and family growth Elder care and... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

Leahy is showcasing exactly why she is the right person for the job. The Beauty of Combining Art and Science In many ways, Leahy’s path to the Glossier CEO seat working at the intersection of art and science started in her early years.... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

company developing a novel therapy to combat cancer. “Entrepreneurship wasn’t something that had ever been on my radar before Harvard,” said Zutshi. “I found it so powerful, the idea of marrying the technical and business side of things. I love the technical side, am... View Details

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Forge New Connections to Each Other Build and deepen relationships with a powerful global network of alumni who share your values and experiences. Stay connected, collaborate, and leverage these relationships to fuel your personal and... View Details

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

algorithm generates fair outcomes. As the algorithm sorts through information to optimize its objective, BEAT detects and eliminates bias at key points in the training process. For instance, BEAT could help a car service charge surge... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

corporate governance structure tailored to the firm. Q: What should CEOs be thinking about in terms of better leveraging their legal resources? Are new organizational structures needed to support this? Better training for both managers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

on where my kids went to school, was what drove a lot of these expectations and missed expectations, and, therefore, anger. And so as I kind of try and peel the onion on all this stuff, it is very, very difficult to pull back if you have View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

by overcoming personal struggle before, and she knew firsthand what supplies fellow shelter survivors needed most. Kato accepted the challenge, reopening her store 11 days after the earthquake struck. Soon afterward, seeing customers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

Cyclist Lance Armstrong overcame incredible personal adversity to reach the highest levels of success. Then, just as spectacularly, he fell from grace in a public scandal that destroyed not only his reputation, but also the reputations of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

effectiveness. Alexandra obtained her MS, MPhil, and PhD in Psychology from Yale University in 2011 and extended her research training as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale School of Management. As a doctoral student, Alexandra has been... View Details

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Resources for New Alumni - Alumni

Harvard Libraries, including Baker Library. Alumni who visit the Stamps Reading Room in person can also access a wide variety of Baker resources . Visit Baker for Alumni for more information. Stay Connected Alumni Clubs There are more... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

carries out his or her job. “I could watch a colleague challenge a student and I could think that’s the way I should teach, but what I miss is the backstory, about why he is doing it in that particular case.” Perhaps even more crucial, those systems assume that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

to working in social enterprise. The 2023 Goldsmith Fellows are: Rehan Adamjee. A joint degree student at HBS and HKS, Rehan recently served as the strategy and growth lead for Vital Pakistan, a 300+ person healthcare organization... View Details

June 2014
Article

Informal Peer Interaction and Practice Type as Predictors of Physician Performance on Maintenance of Certification Examinations

By: Melissa A. Valentine, S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal and R. Rhodes

Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by passing a Maintenance of Certification exam. Exam performance depends on professional learning and development, which may be enhanced by informal routine... View Details

Keywords: Training; Health Care and Treatment; Performance; Social and Collaborative Networks; Learning; Health Industry

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14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

subclinical stress in young adults and accelerate neuropsychiatric clinical trials. Willow uses machine learning—with Human-in-the-loop—to train personalized AI models that can be used for continuous disease... View Details

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