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- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
Gerdeman: Could you briefly explain each of the Four Elements? Butler: Sure, the first is Identity. Identity is a lifelong project in which we, and simultaneously the people in our world, have a growing sense of our place in the world in View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
done a lot of work supporting the public school districts and I was becoming more and more familiar with what was going on in the public schools in terms of student achievement levels and a rapid decline that you see in middle school.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS
was learning into context. I never felt like I was being lectured at. I could access the index on the platform on any page, at any time. This meant if I ever came across a term I didn’t recognize I could still quickly find the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
including their health and relationships. It's then they often become more disposed to change. In recent years, what's been the most positive development in business? The global economy. "Excellence" in local or regional terms is usually... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
to improve a potential deal that under the best of terms may still be unsatisfactory, more sophisticated negotiators carefully assess whether those efforts might be better spent away from the table, generating competing offers or... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
Indeed, from low wages to limited health-care coverage, the company has a number of issues to tackle. But to characterize Wal-Mart’s success simply in terms of its exploitation of its workforce, as many of the company’s most ferocious... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
fuel their success against the double obstacles of gender and class. In contrast, women from middle- and upper-class origins were constrained in their use of agentic narratives and were more likely to describe their success in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
for celebrity, it was an occasion for more impact. The other difference for her at that time was that she was now on a global stage. Her voice has impact outside of India. She has transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Annual Survey. We define the A&MS industry in terms of nine sectors, each of which is represented by a separate 5-digit NAICS category. In so doing, we have sought to redress some of the measurement problems surrounding estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
some IT experts I’ve talked to are surprised by the results.” Why? The cost of software updates—both in terms of time and money—may cause businesses to delay manual updates to vulnerable systems, says Shane M. Greenstein, the Martin... View Details
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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
forfeiture of your project grant award. Timing: Students will receive payment at the end of the semester. It can take 6 weeks or more from the date you submit your paperwork for you to receive a reimbursement check. For Spring term... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for... View Details
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Eryn Schultz
big impact. Watching some of my classmates develop an idea, recruit a team, and raise funding for a business idea made me realize that I have the tools to build something: either inside an existent company or on my own. How did HBS prepare you for your internship and... View Details
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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog
hypotheses that capture how the new product/service will create value, including business model design, pricing, sales and marketing, operating model and profit formula. The Capstone is divided into two parts, the first of which is an immersive course completed during... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
Greylock Partners, one of the country’s first—and foremost— venture capital firms. “I don’t think the term ‘venture capital’ was in anyone’s vocabulary when we were students,” he notes. Joining Greylock and overseeing its early... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
must now be more cost competitive, in both domestic and foreign markets. Meanwhile, the explosion of digital technology has forced manufacturing to look at its competitive advantage not just in terms of cost competitiveness, but also in... View Details