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- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and sometimes commit fraud. So we rely on auditors to mitigate that problem. Auditors’ incentive to do a... View Details
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
my SVMP experience feeling so energized and ready to take on the world! By the time I completed my internship and was back at MIT for my senior year, my eyes were set on finishing up my classwork and securing a job. My first semester was super busy, but by the end of... View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
and installed Unix and 3rd party software. This includes (but is not limited to) commands like mv , cp , and the system python . Anything outside of these locations must be referenced by a full pathname to execute the program. If you wish to write custom LSF View Details
- 02 May 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How To Ask Better Questions
Asking the right questions is the key to unlocking talent, opportunity, money, even second dates. Research shows asking follow-up questions improves your life and increases emotional intelligence. A Good Place to Start Asking Questions Can Get You a Better View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
both could be very direct as well. Hesselbein, according to one account, once lectured a class of retiring CEOs that included Alan Mulally, who was out of a job at Boeing prior to becoming CEO of Ford, to stop “whining” about what they... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Harvard Business School... View Details
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
awareness. The broad lesson of The Uninvited Brand may be that brand management and control are not synonymous. Avery recommends that brand managers consider working more closely with public relations managers, whose jobs have always... View Details
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Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts
electric vehicle production? In this episode of Managing the Future of Work, hosted by HBS professor Joe Fuller, Volvo's chief people officer Hanna Fager explains how the company revamped jobs throughout the organization. How to Manage:... View Details
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Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
competitive advantage. This holds true internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally—wherever the goal is to improve productivity, stimulate sustainable job growth, and increase the standard of living. Improving Competitiveness:... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
programs in Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. His programs created over 1,500 formal and informal jobs and cleaned up more than 160 million bottles from streets and canals. (You can read more about Goodwin’s work in this article... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
key moments of crisis in which their self-confidence falters. These in turn can lead them to become more rigid, sabotaging their own performance. A coach’s job is to prevent team members from lapsing into this pattern and to help them... View Details
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
aptitude for following standard procedures during customer calls. Individuality was not just discounted; in some ways it was expressly discouraged. "As a service role, the job can be stressful, not only because employees must help... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Op-Ed
Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.
relationship with a woman employee, decades his junior, whom he met as a mentor to undergraduate students. She became a strategic planner at one of the organization’s branches , and eventually its chief of staff. Both jobs disappeared... View Details
Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
The model requires a high level of trust. "In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other means." We can put some numbers on this. In a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)
HBS career coaches are committed to helping MBA students and alumni realize their unique career visions. They are trained to assist with all aspects of the career development process including self-assessment and career vision, developing View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details
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Negotiating - Alumni
standards/goals Geographic flexibility Office space Paid travel Ownership options Professional training + – Negotiate The following tactics can help you conduct productive negotiations. Speak with the hiring manager, if possible Express enthusiasm for View Details