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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

As you rise in your organization and gain more management responsibility, you may be wondering what you can do to foster a more inclusive and equitable culture within your team and across the organization. That's a big question, so here... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

sacrificing organizational agility, the company would institute more formal systems and controls. IT was, of course, key to achieving this. An expression Williams and Barton had begun to use in conversation to describe where they were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

inexperience in how to apply the methodologies. Another possibility? Their ideas just weren’t that good. “I think one of the coolest findings in our paper is that experimentation doesn’t necessarily drive... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Alumni New Venture Competition Winner: Elisa Transforming child nutrition in Latin America through fresh and additive-free meals. 2024 Runners-Up Play Sanso: Satchu-Burgstone Runner-Up Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2024 New... View Details

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

Love at HBS is a celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. This portrait project showcases stories of love from students at Harvard Business School. Alli Iglehart, Class of 2020 As... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

part of every single conversation, and they're influencing a conversation whether you're aware of it or not, whether you acknowledge them or not. Sometimes listening for this and then leaning in a little bit... View Details

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

regional franchise of a fast-growing restaurant promotion company, was ultimately successful, named to the Inc 500 list of fastest growing private US companies, and launching Bessalel's 30-year career as an entrepreneur and investor. Bessalel View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

entrepreneur and Stanford/UC Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank. The "lean" in lean startup has its roots in the Toyota Production System; hence, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein SEP 2016 In an address at the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference, Greenwood, Hanson and Stein suggest that, going forward, the Fed should use its balance... View Details

05 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS

two is more so about the network. Having grown up first gen and low income, I didn't really have a network, you could say. I mean, I know some people, but not really a network, not really folks that I could lean on for mentorship,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

it is the heart of what makes the HBS MBA a shared educational experience across generations. It is deeply important to us, therefore, to continuously invest in the RC, building on its long tradition of strength while View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

me more about this case that you’re making for leaning into ambiguity and imperfection. Why is that a good solution for this moment in time? Charles Conn: Yeah, when most of us learn strategy, and many of us... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Memoir of Leaning in Too Far and the Journey Back . Sanibel, FL: Temple Press, 2016. Nevins, Allan. Herbert H. Lehman and His Era. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963. Silverman, Joseph. “Spoken at the... View Details

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Archaeology, Princeton University In this mosaic, Tethys is portrayed with a winged brow and a rudder leaning against her shoulder. While she sometimes is shown next to her husband, the Titan Oceanus, here... View Details

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

I was way off about timing. HBS paid off before I left campus. Let me share three reasons: First, I learned to ask what else? That question has helped me create richer solutions. I remember leaning forward View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

from “Art Is ” series, 1983/2009 Art Is (Star East Monuments) Art Is (Women in Crowd Framed) Art Is (Young Woman Leaning on Barrier) Art Is (Dancer in Grass Skirt) Carrie Mae... View Details

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

which ones would fall flat. But, in rating recommendations they were told came from a computer versus a human, participants gave human recommenders higher scores, showing that people would rather receive suggestions from a person, even if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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