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About - Business & Environment
on business and environment topics Educate students to transform organizations to become environmentally sustainable Disseminate insights from research and foster alumni engagement on critical environmental topics BEI brings together more than 40 affiliated faculty... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Associate Professor Mark L. Egan Finance FIELD Immersion Experience Returns After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, the first-year required Field Immersion View Details
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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About
buildings scattered across the Harvard College campus. By the early 1920s, enrollment had grown to nearly 700, and Dean Wallace B. Donham launched a campaign to build a dedicated campus where business school faculty and students could live and learn together and View Details
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
results .” Kamal Gupta, citing his experience with corporate bureaucrats, said, “We have a word for it; we call these people ‘zombie managers.’ They keep on pushing papers round and round, and then the actual decision goes to a guy who... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
represents what actually gets done. Strategic integrity is when emergent and directed strategies are one and the same thing: when the strategy executes with the full, aligned backing of the organization for maximum impact. When a strategy... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
anxiety-provoking and inspiring. Regardless of the strategy used for selecting the opener, instructors should position the call as a challenging but fair opportunity for students to experience personal development and contribute to the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me
overwhelmed by insecurity - thinking that my background did not measure up to what I perceived to be the "prototypical" HBS student, and that Birmingham, Auburn University, and Georgia-Pacific are not hometowns, institutions, or companies that are normally View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated View Details
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
personal experience and observation. When asked to imagine receiving a promotion at work, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. ©iPhoto “We wondered if women may think about things that men don’t,” says Brooks.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jun 2022
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Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people should tap into their “full... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Rising Challenge to Democracy Around the World Professor David Moss + More Info – Less Info After spreading rapidly in the late 20th century, democracy has been on the defensive around the world—and arguably receding—in the 21st century. This View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
experience. Among the questions to ask: How have customers perceived their treatment? Have they received above-and-beyond service and how do they think their experiences compare to those of other customers? Evaluate existing data. Do... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Thomaz Galvao
Thomaz joined Teach for Brazil (Ensina Brasil) where he was responsible for managing alumni and partnership strategies. Starting his startup now With a scholarship from the Lemann Foundation, Thomaz was able to pursue an MBA. He choose HBS, partly because “it View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
Keyra Lynn Johnson. “The frontline perspective can give management important insight into the employee experience and what customers really want from the airline.” Delta has reclassified most jobs that had previously required a degree and... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Prior research has suggested that a company's ties to political networks carries only two values, positive and zero, while the results of this study suggest that political network ties can also be a significant liability for companies. Analyzing South Korea as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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color. Developed in collaboration with the HBS African-American Alumni Association, the Forum provides training, classroom discussion, and peer support grounded in the diverse experiences of the participants. Social entrepreneurs gathered... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and, additionally, we document detailed case studies of four MNEs (that arguably View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an intensive, immersive experience that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum the ability to integrate their learning in the RC through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg