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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

members Nisha Kumar Behringer (MBA 1995) and Kris Pederson (MBA 1991). The event offered guidance on landing a corporate board seat, what skills boards look for, and the importance of persistence. Key practical insights included:... View Details

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

delegation of Chubb executives to discuss insurance issues. In the mid-1990s, Chubb opened representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen to do market research and assess the potential of the Chinese insurance market. In 2000,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

1959, MBA 1965) worked for a year as a research associate to faculty member James Healy; she also acted as an unofficial "dean" for female students and crisscrossed the country to interview and recruit women (only six enrolled in the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

which concerns itself with research in supply chain management. The paper attempts to provide some context for those addressing issues of sustainability. Its intent is to get us beyond questions such as, Is sustainability desirable? or... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

entrepreneurs are just as innovative and change-oriented as their business counterparts. Among academic institutions, HBS staked an early interest in the area by creating the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993, dedicated to developing unparalleled View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

executives and influencing the practice of management on a global scale. Income earned through Executive Education, Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online), augmented by revenues from MBA tuition... View Details

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

their children, not just the ones attending the preschool. It has this ripple effect. It can literally change outcomes, one child at a time.” But Dias Griffin isn’t stopping here. She wants states across the nation to adopt this curriculum. “We have four years of View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

career in banking in 2018. “I am grateful to learn from the from practitioners, researchers, and educators who are consolidating best practices from countries throughout the world,” he says. “I am also mindful of the View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

potential problem and then solidified the relationship with Dr. Mak. We then identified and addressed regulatory and practical issues like consent, access to images, and annotation and development of the video teaching tool. LISH View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

addressed. HOW TO CREATE A PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE ORGANIZATION Professor Edmondson’s research led her to develop a Leadership Toolkit to help organizations achieve psychological safety. The three critical elements of that toolkit are... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books

urban center of downtown New York 23 years later. Of particular interest to researchers, students, and practitioners of urban development and planning, 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding contributes to current research on the urban development... View Details

18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

chair of the Asia-Pacific Research Center; Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at HBS; Lihong Qin, cofounder and president of NIO; and Paul... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

partnering with BIT and applying behavioral insights to solve real world policy and managerial problems. “One way to help people make better decisions is to change the choice environment—or the way in which decisions are presented,” Luca says. “There’s a growing body... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2004
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Books

business ethicist Nash, a senior research fellow at HBS, and Stevenson, an entrepreneurship expert and HBS professor, offer a practical framework designed to help readers define and achieve success in terms... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Talking More, Kaplan, along with HBS project director and Fellow Derek A. Haas, and former senior researcher Jonathan Warsh, demonstrates again the old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. By spending more time... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US

Straughn-Turner was aware he was making a significant pivot from consulting to real estate and would need to actively pitch himself to recruiters. He learned what skills were valuable in real estate and became practiced in highlighting... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

laboratory settings, the evidence often doesn't support those assumptions." To get a better sense of if and how gender affects negotiations in the workplace, in 2005 McGinn and colleagues Hannah Riley Bowles (DBA 2001) and Dina Pradel (MBA 2000) conducted field View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

Fargo., objectives were put in place to broaden the bank’s relationship with its customers. This involved selling existing customers many more products, a goal based on research showing a relationship between breadth of customer... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Harvard Business School faculty offer their views: Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Geoff Jones, who researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business and has authored numerous books on these topics,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

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