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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

pioneering strategy. Also, workforce development, competency-based learning, and skills-based hiring. OneTen CEO Debbie Dyson: Why "skills-first" builds a better workforce 15 JAN 2025 | Managing the Future of Work In taking aim at degree... View Details

30 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Reflecting on my service

As Veterans day approaches each year, I like to take time to reflect on my service, how it has changed my life’s trajectory and shaped who I have become. Serving in the military focused my purpose around protecting others: protecting my... View Details

10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

has encountered. The donors' mother interrupted her own education to raise her family, spent her life devoted to the education of her children and others, and takes great pride in the opportunities education has created for those she... View Details

08 Jul 2021
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Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

connections in life, and asks me to explore a part of myself I have mostly left hidden up until now. I’m so looking forward to seeing where that perspective takes me and my small business. View Details

05 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

recognize how much more the receiver wanted the feedback—but asking the feedback giver to put themselves in the other person’s shoes was more effective overall. This suggests that one potential way to increase the likelihood that someone will give feedback is to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

faced. As the story unfolds, you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem and determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive... View Details

14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

he needed to take a break—and not just a one-week vacation. He decided to take time off and explore neglected interests in the outdoors and in spirituality—by spending six weeks walking 900 miles as part of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

About the Unit The BGIE Unit conducts research on, and teaches about, the economic, political, social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in economics, political science, and history; in its work, it draws on View Details

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

coffee chat in Dubai, where 20 prospective MBA applicants engaged in conversations with Vai Schierholtz (MBA 2019), from MBA Admissions, and Alpana Thapar (MBA 2012), Executive Director of the MENA Research Center, as well as with two HBS alumni who joined the... View Details

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

International Management Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization By: Jones, Geoffrey, and Christos Pitelis Abstract—This article explores the role of entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

incentive plans because they felt they would be competing against people whose good will and companionship they valued. To take another example of the broader conception of human beings uncovered by the researchers, consider, for... View Details

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

reported that digital transformation takes significant financial investment and time. Of those who reported making significant progress on their journey, 60 percent had been at it for at least five years. In calculating the resources,... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

21 Jul 2010
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HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

their perspectives on the bill and its key provisions. Their opinions range from calling it a major step forward to concern that it will actually raise the risk to the system. Robert Steven Kaplan, Professor Of Management Practice:... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Feb 2022
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Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

to share in decision-making and creating a culture that makes people feel safe enough to take risks and act on behalf of organizational interests. It’s also about earning trust from and offering trust to increasingly diverse stakeholders... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

16 May 2012
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Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

wings on them." Forty percent or more of the funds for DoD aircraft are spent on electronics equipment. It has not been uncommon for weapon programs to take ten or more years to design, develop, produce, and deploy initial... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

For fun, Light takes to the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. "I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me," he says. In his first interview... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

actively learn at multiple levels, and engage conflict. Leaders can engage these functions through team-centric or leader-centric structures. On Knowing and Doing: A Perspective on the Synergies between Research and Practice... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

healthcare system. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53401 Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives By: Bergquist, Ann-Kristin Abstract—This working paper provides a long-term business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

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

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