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20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

to occur around the AASU conference, to offer educational, networking, and funding opportunities. Tell us about Friday’s Master Series. Tyler: It’s a full day of tech and entrepreneurship programming, designed to help equip black entrepreneurs with the educational... View Details

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

of the owner as setting general guidelines and hiring the right people to carry out the mission.” “My one talent is an ability to spot talent,” Bradley claims. While he certainly has deep reserves of other talents— creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

student made a Choose Your Own Adventure computer game about making the right choices in a workplace environment. (When Frei played the game, "I ended up getting fired.") One of the most moving projects in the class, she says,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

relationships with the right people. This crisis presents an opportunity for the CEO to communicate to all employees, including new hires, that the company cares about them and is prioritizing their health and safety during the pandemic.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

while, everyone else in the ground-coffee market had done something similar, and it’s been going on ever since. You tend to see this happen at times of increasing costs of raw materials, wages, and energy prices—anything that puts pressure on manufacturers’ margins.... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

on the evening news speaking at a gay rights rally. I arrived at HBS in 1980. There seemed to be no one like me—a lefty, feminist English major, and most of all, gay—in this conservative, straight white male world, with a not... View Details

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Title IX & Gender Equity | About

University’s Title IX Officer. An individual also may contact the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Harvard also complies with Massachusetts laws that protect individuals from discrimination on the basis of... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

serves as the basis of the terminal value), capital expenditures will just equal depreciation, indicating no growth in assets. In effect, understating capital intensity inflates values. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from How... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

While there is a lot to be said for being lucky rather than being smart, I’ve learned that being smart means putting yourself in the path of luck at the right time. Investing and life are a lot like surfing that way: One mostly needs to... View Details

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

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

the HBS Fund. “The School has been incredibly thoughtful and progressive, and I trust its leaders to continue on the right path,” he says. While it took him some time to create his estate plan, including HBS in his philanthropy is not new... View Details

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

yet it is up to the accepting university to determine eligibility. Are you interested in taking the next step in your career? Explore our online course catalog to find the right fit. Hear from our learners Empower yourself with the... View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

years to when HBS first became co-ed, and eight women were accepted into the MBA program for the first time. To highlight these women’s right to be in the program, they conducted a finals review session for their classmates to showcase... View Details

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

"make sure he is upsetting things for the wrong reason rather than for the right reason." Joseph Seiler recalled that in growing companies where he worked, "I came across a few of these Type 4 people. What seemed to help... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jun 2010
What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

Those placing the greatest weight on strategy were characterized by Pete DeLisi's observation that "it's hard to perform if you don't have the right solutions, addressing a real need, provided to the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

October 28, 2022 deadline. Applicants are accepted based on meeting all the requirements, and the Institute reserves the right to accept or decline any application. The Institute does not offer exclusivity to affiliate institutions in... View Details

Fast Answer

Options: Basics for finding price data

An option is a financial derivative contract that essentially bestows the right to buy (call) or sell (put) a given security at a specified price (the strike or exercise price) at (or before) a specified date (the expiration date). For... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

under-staffed facility,” Mukherjee explains in the case study. “Our goal cannot be to deliver care at the cheapest cost; it should be to have sufficient resources to do what is right for the patient.” One clear benefit of using... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

Harley demographic aging out of the sport the new concepts are a step in the right direction most of all, the product must be right.” Kevin O’Meara agreed, saying that, “the tariffs and the ‘Twitter war’ are masking the true issues (1)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

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