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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked
Thanks to a wall of life-size screens, strategically placed cameras, and a studio crew, the experience is more immersive than what is provided by a virtual meeting technology such as Zoom. Watch our Live Online Classroom (LOC) video to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
through our computers and phones. Remote work has given top leaders incentives to use these communication technologies to not only communicate with every individual in the organization but even meet their pets and check out their living... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
Performance. An alternative explanation might go the other way: Financial Performance = Gender Diversity. Well off firms have much more flexibility to experiment, meet diversity goals and so forth.” Patrick Schild, while disagreeing with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
the donut shop business that my second year of business school, I accompanied my dad to a meeting with a private equity firm in New York. My dad was asking a million-and-a-half dollars for the business. He wanted out. He wanted to sell.... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
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3D Negotiaton
In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
have steered huge strategy shifts at Intel Corp. and the Pentagon, for example. In 2011, Thinkers50 named him the world's most influential business thinker. At the same time, he has held major leadership positions in his church, and he's never taken a business View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
3 Facts About HBS Discussion Groups
Discussion groups meet each morning from 8:00-9:00am to help prepare for classes. People share different perspectives on the material and help each other prepare for the case method style of teaching and participation. Depending on the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Tips for MBA Students with Families
books, etc.). Since our student-partners are busy all day and some evenings with school and recruiting efforts, Crimson Parents is a way to give the partners an equally enriching experience. Aubrey: We love Crimson Parents! This club is the very best way to View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
Caribbean-inspired appetizers and entrées. Franyo meets daily with the Boatyard’s chef and general manager, Tammy Reece, to go over the menu and discuss management issues, then puts in his time “picking up cigarette butts and bottle caps”... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
food marketing—that corporations and retailers alike spend a lot of money and effort to create and then meet customer expectations about how food should look. “Freshness was no longer a natural state of foods but a marker of marketability... View Details
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Frist Faculty Commons | About
Frist Faculty Commons The Frist Faculty Commons, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center , was named in recognition of the leadership support of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family. The Frist Faculty Commons offers a convenient gathering place for dining and informal... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
leadership theater is unplanned, but it requires the right reflex action on the part of the leader. For example, I once observed Bill Pollard, then CEO of ServiceMaster, spill a cup of coffee at a board meeting at the company, one... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
work with an incredible team of dedicated individuals who daily give everything they have. My team and I are committed to attentively listening and responding to each student’s requests and needs in meeting their HBS goals while... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
reported battery-storage capacity has quadrupled nationwide in the last four years, helping communities meet peak demand and providing resilience in severe weather. “Our utility has two high-capacity batteries in New York on Long Island,... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
interview than the interviewee." According to Wally Bock, "When I conducted research I found that the more effective supervisors spent the bulk of their performance evaluation meeting time talking about the future." Forced... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct | About
University program. Sexual harassment, including sexual violence, is a form of sex discrimination in that it denies an individual equal access to the University’s programs or activities.” Harvard’s policies are “designed to ensure a safe and non-discriminatory... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
concludes with a final exam. What are the learning requirements in order to successfully complete Economics for Managers, and how are grades assigned? + – Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard hats. "I want you to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young