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- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
companies understand their employees’ needs and best respond to them. There is no a one-size-fits-all solution to the flexibility question, says Auerbach. Werk assesses each employee and recommends a schedule most likely to maintain... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
that "fundamental to trust is integrity so I would build the foundation on integrity." Other favorites included "the extent to which I feel my manager or my organization is being real with me ( doing what it says on the tin)" (from Jackie Le Fevre),... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
international clubs continue to face the challenges of producing viable levels of membership, activities, and finances. This committee hopes to recommend and implement several initiatives that will provide club officers with the View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
directly to consumers. Do physicians take notice? Professor Emeritus Alvin Silk and Harvard’s Joel Weissman discuss a recent study. The Changing Roles of Doctors and Patients Richard Bohmer, a physician as well as an HBS assistant professor, says doctors are becoming... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
recommendation systems to suggest to each individual user products or content which might interest him/her, as inferred from their past behavior or the behavior of users with similar profiles. How much... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Sep 2014
- Career Events
Returning to Work After a Break
As a "relauncher" herself, Carol Cohen (MBA 1985) understands the challenges of returning to work after multi-year career breaks. She has also engaged with hundreds of hiring managers to understand their biases and the risk they associate with hiring people who are... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
largest charter school systems with 54 schools in six cities serving underprivileged communities. The vast majority of their student bodies are filled with children of color from low-income backgrounds. Given such a high need for quality... View Details
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Using Personal Devices for HBS Business | Information Technology
our work. Since these devices aren't managed by HBS IT, it's important to remember that you are responsible for ensuring that they are configured in a way to protect not only Harvard systems and information, but your own as well. protects... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
University have distinguished between what they call System 1 and System 2 thought. System 1 thought describes our intuition: quick, automatic, effortless, and influenced by... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
report. Small businesses are a major growth lever for wealth creation and employment in Massachusetts and across the country. Yet, many BIPOC-led and -owned businesses currently face systemic barriers to raising capital, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Professor Emeritus Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to hire faculty, build a curriculum, attract and retain students, achieve top-quality research, ensure autonomy, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
raise alumni awareness of continuing education options and proposed recommendations to make those options more accessible and relevant. Online Connections — served as a sounding board and test user group for the new, enhanced alumni... View Details
- Student-Profile
Byungyeon Kim
Byungyeon Kim’s (he/him) first job was with POSCO, a steel-making company in his native South Korea. While the role promised security and advancement, he couldn’t shake the sense that there were bigger questions he’d like to investigate. Why had certain View Details
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
execution mode and test the options to learn. For example, when I was researching the sales prospecting process, there were many software systems to choose from. Rather than spend weeks, even days, researching between them, we tested two... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
YOUNG: Always start by focusing on areas where you have the most risk. Good protection starts with good IT hygiene. The basics—patching and updating systems and basic protections (and controls)—should be in place across the entire... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make recommendations to managers and boards, and set regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
deliver value for patients, and a set of recommendations for getting there.” After two more years of research, Porter and Teisberg produced Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. The book describes a path to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
likelihood that policyholders will suffer a breach, and that At-Bay will pay a large claim. The company even offers discounts to clients who adopt recommended security measures, just as car-insurance providers offer discounts for having... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
Is a host's physical appearance really the information Airbnb most wants to emphasize?" More generally, the researchers recommend that sharing-economy companies take website design seriously and to question early on whether their View Details