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12 PM – 1 PM EST, 11 Feb 2016
Webinars: Career

Sales Skills Everyone Needs

Are you a sales professional looking to break through the noise? Could you use some insight into leveraging social dynamics and modern persuasion techniques? Whether you are a seasoned sales rep looking to sharpen your skills, or an entrepreneur looking to unravel... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

the next level.” To this day, Russo declares that Anderson’s decision to approve her loan “was the biggest turning point in my life.” Nine empty floors could have led to a cash-flow disaster. But for Russo, it was a time for bold moves.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

22 Jun 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

behavior: the promotion of good deeds or the prevention of bad deeds. It turns out that employees tend to act more ethically when focused on what not to do. That can be problematic in firms where success is commonly framed in terms of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

Profile

John Clayton

engaging external partners within the international development community. Despite the high-quality exposure, John felt a need “for something different, less bureaucratic” and turned toward the MBA “as a platform to transition into the... View Details

Student-Profile

Erica Moszkowski

to inform our understanding of social and economic networks. “Working every day with PhD-trained economists taught me to be an effective consumer of economic research,” she explains. “I wanted a doctoral program that would let me do cross-disciplinary work. HBS lets me... View Details

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

the course of economic theory and financial practice. With the option pricing model firmly in place, Merton's research as a member of the Harvard Business School faculty continues to evolve as he turns his attention to new analyses of the... View Details

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Stamps Reading Room | About

down from day-to-day operations at Summit, Stamps, with his wife of 41 years, Penny, turned a favorite vacation spot, Miami, into home. Together Roe and Penny run the family foundation and support a wide range of educational institutions... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

because of the actions of an unscrupulous few,” she told the audience in Burden Auditorium. “Each of you has an extraordinary opportunity to help turn around the crisis in confidence we face today. You are the future business leaders of... 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

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

Portrait Project

Esther Hsu

and about myself. They remind me that I cannot always plan my life — I must take moments in stride, the good and bad, and with all the twists. With a little moxie, I will follow God's path for me, relying on the lessons from my past. I plan to aim for those perfect... View Details

Portrait Project

Danna Wei

just accept what I learned as truth – it is what it is. I never questioned her process of making dumplings, because it consistently turned out the tastiest dumplings I could find. Yet years later, a simple question between my friends... View Details

Portrait Project

Aalek Mehta

it." That was the biggest lie I've ever told. These boys had nothing – not the family I so often took for granted, the education I believed I "deserved," or the countless opportunities I turned down. I was haunted by my... View Details

14 Mar 2018
News

Do the Things You Love

college and to take care of your family. And it turns out that the thing that makes a difference is doing something in the world. “I'm HBS Class of 1985, so I've been back to my reunions every five years. And in the beginning, people... View Details

09 Oct 2017
News

Saving an American Publishing Icon

would do research on any topic for any individual. Turns out, the thing that was more in demand was best-practices research. And that company became the Corporate Executive Board and the Advisory Board Company. “At age 40, at that... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Steel Tax

When President George W. Bush (MBA '75) imposed a tariff of up to 30 percent on most types of steel imported into the United States, the Boston Globe (March 10, 2002) turned to HBS professor Debora Spar to explain the implications. Noting... View Details

Profile

Thomas Grenier

In case after case, HBS students are challenged to make and defend crucial business decisions. In the summer of 2008, Thomas Grenier and his fellow climber had to make an even more urgent choice: whether to respect the signs of incoming bad weather and View Details

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

houses and art dealers. “From a business school point of view, there's a contradiction where the art market seems illogical or strange because it turns on its head some of the rules of competition” "One of the things people try to do... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Mentoring others to help "make the world a better place"

Charles Foster (MBA 1968) has turned to mentoring as a third-stage career, helping people better manage their lives and careers. (Published April 2014) View Details

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

them, and sometimes it’s good to be dislodged from our solutions. Obviously, there’s a lot out there to help us not forget stuff, and it could be that for certain kinds of problems that turns out to be counterproductive.” To HBS Executive... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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