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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
singing it.’” In an interview at her office in midtown Manhattan, Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and an accomplished gospel singer, recounts this story and others with the kind of informal ease you might expect from a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blog Posts of 2018
investigated Harvard, every interaction I had—information sessions, alumni panels, and even simple blog posts—left me noticeably energized. Read more. Each year, the MBA program interviews students about what brought them to HBS, their... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
contributing countless hours to help prep classmates who are interviewing for a new industry, I felt part of a community that cares for each other. I am honored to be part of this community of extraordinary people who want nothing but to... View Details
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Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
scheduled class time can thus be used at the team’s discretion for meetings or interviews with project sponsors. A required project poster session will be scheduled during one class session in the middle of Q4. In this session, teams will... View Details
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Digital Transformation - HBS Online
Accounting I’ve found HBS Online's courses to be immediately applicable to my work, and they’ve made me a more productive member of our strategic team. Laura Wingate Strategy Execution participant The CEOs that interviewed me as I moved... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
destructive to all parties.” With the students’ assistance, Sucher wrote two background notes on best practices for layoffs. They also produced a series of video interviews with laid-off employees to capture firsthand perspectives on the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
still felt limited in what we could explore. Our process included several meetings to synthesize the ideas into four categories, three rounds of voting on the best categories, two prototypes to test out our favorite ideas and countless customer View Details
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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
alumni interviews will be conducted by groups of students, but the memo will be written individually.) The final grade will be determined 50% on class participation, 50% on written work. Because of the nature of the exercises, workshops,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
week when we announced the project to the public, after two years of pouring in sweat, blood, and tears. The public's reaction to Breakwater Chicago was overwhelmingly positive, and I spent the entire week running (literally!) from View Details
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
easy. It has more to do with the relationship between joy and accomplishment. A number of years ago I interviewed the novelist John Irving, who reported that he often spent twelve hours a day writing. I asked him why he put in such long... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500 View Details
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
outside of our direct industry to address it. Paul McDonald, Senior Director, Opower Product Strategy & Marketing at Oracle (How OPower Uses Behavioral Science & AI to Reduce Energy Demand): “There's nothing that quite replaces those delightfully awkward... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
you’re interested in and find ways to connect with them. When you meet, articulate how you can contribute; engage your interviewers about their work; and offer expertise, advice, or contacts with no expectation of reciprocity. Suddenly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
mere 2 percent deficit in a $50 million budget is $1 million, a number that "is completely unacceptable in the nonprofit realm." The fundraising and financial aspects of their jobs, say the HBS MBAs who were interviewed for this article,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Harvard Business School for 1,500 participants, and reviewed interviews of 50 group members, I have learned just how powerful these groups can be. They can make a meaningful contribution to developing a new generation of values-centered,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
as well as how to nurture creativity, both in individuals and in organizations. Amabile interviewed John Irving in 1986, when he agreed to share memories of his childhood as part of a research project Amabile was conducting on children... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace