Curriculum and Courses - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

This blog is a repost from the HBS Recruiting blog. An engineer by training, Stan Chang, MS/MBA 2020 candidate in the SEAS/HBS joint degree program, came to Harvard to “balance a business curriculum with an advanced engineering education.... View Details

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

experience? If they are skills, should the curriculum be designed to foster them, perhaps through greater emphasis on courses in negotiating skills and increased field... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

10 Aug 2016
Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

Through exploring various options, students effectively teach each other the merits and downsides of each course of action. My classmates offered perspectives from an incredible diversity of cultural,... View Details

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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students More Local Events Local Community Events Harvard Wyss institute- upcoming events Berkman Center for Internet View Details

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Mollie Breen

already helped shape Mollie's business ideas. "The curriculum inspires brainstorming," she says, and helps develop practical skills and approaches. "I've... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

Unilever, for the first time in my life I felt the freedom to put my own personal development ahead of my academic and career aspirations. What did I eventually decide to do? I became a digital nomad. I took the opportunity to travel to... View Details

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

openly reveal their own interests from the get-go. The seller learns that the buyer plans to use the cottage only in the summer, and in the course of negotiation agrees to look after the property in the... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects Independent Projects in social enterprise complement the classroom-based courses by providing second-year MBA students the opportunity to apply their skills to the real-world... View Details

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Batten Hall | About

milestones, educational TV’s first star, chef Julia Child, launched her career. The upper two levels of Batten Hall include 10 curved, modular learning classrooms known as “hives,” developed for small-group exercises and team-based... View Details

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

experience thus far? One of the highlights of my HBS experience so far has been the Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Short Intensive Program (SIP). I love marketing and am interested in pursuing entrepreneurship post business... View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

separate ways. By our senior year, somehow we’d managed to share two disciplines and never sit a course together. We’d both been committed to the local sustainable food movement. We’d spent three years... View Details

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the graying of America, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Continuing Education - Business & Environment

Continuing Education Continuing Education Continue your climate education through HBS Executive Education and Harvard Business School Online. Harvard Business School Online Courses Business View Details

26 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)

course of the year. The researchers found that influencers and marketers have a lot at stake if they don’t handle the relationship carefully. Influencers lose about 382,500 views a year, or $1,530 in annual... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Technology; Media & Broadcasting

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

marketing, but of course exclude bad reviews. Customers should understand that no news (or reviews) is bad news in this situation — but oftentimes they ignore the lack of reviews, and flock to opening... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Planned Giving - Alumni

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959) credited HBS with changing the course of his life and, in appreciation, left a lasting legacy at the School. Sustaining Excellence Learn how planned gifts—from alumni across generations—play a vital role in... View Details

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