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Resources for New Alumni - Alumni

Founder of Bridgepath Career Advisors, LLC and HBS Career Coach Read Post: Build a Resume that Stands Above the Competition No matter where you are in your career, professional... View Details

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Mid-US - Global

United States Mid-US Harvard Business School (HBS) established the Mid-US Research Center (MRC) in 2021 to build a deeper understanding of business practice and innovation in the South, Midwest, and Mountain... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

refinements or radical breakthroughs, improve the performance of established products and services along the dimensions that mainstream customers in major markets historically have valued. Examples: a microprocessor that enables View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

29 Jan 2015
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Ask about the FIELD Immersion during your next interview

students to learn more about their FIELD immersions as well as different skills they can bring to your organization. - Kendall Borges, HBS Career & Professional Development View Details

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

0.5 percent. The federal tax cut reduced rates by 14 percent, so the income-shifting motivation is likely to be much stronger.” Prior research largely focused on how personal taxes impact income inequity, View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Research - Global

Research September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

various stages of their personal and professional lives. We aspire to connect you with each other, share with you the latest faculty research and innovative ideas from the... View Details

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Generative AI - Alumni

Careers Generative AI Careers Generative AI In today's dynamic job market, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) stands out as a powerful ally for job seekers, offering View Details

23 Oct 2013
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Overcoming Nervous Nelly

valence." Common wisdom says that the best way to overcome anxiety is to calm yourself down, creating an emotion with low arousal and positive valence. But enacting a transformation across two axes at once is difficult to achieve.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Nov 2010
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

06 Aug 2015
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What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS

supposed to not have a day job? Should I actively avoid having a stable income and the safety of working for a large company? Coming from Perú, where the music industry is still in a very incipient stage, I grew up under the influence of... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

does the job and the three components above are all most families in business need. Properly composed and managed, a family assembly and family council help: View Details

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Ph.D. in biology and a former biology professor at Harvard, has also had a 25-year career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

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For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship

acquisition & development to legal issues and startup failure. Read more Career & Professional Development For students interested in joining a... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable By: George Serafeim Article Transition to Clean Technology By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr We develop a... View Details

August 2023
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Can Security Design Foster Household Risk-Taking?

By: Laurent Calvet, Claire Célérier, Paolo Sodini and Boris Vallée

This paper shows that securities with a non-linear payoff design can foster household risk-taking. We demonstrate this effect empirically by exploiting the introduction of capital guarantee products in Sweden from 2002 to 2007. The fast and broad adoption of these... View Details

Keywords: Financial Innovation; Household Finance; Structured Products; Stock Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Household; Personal Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Market Participation

10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

Marketing the Beauty Secrets of Japanese Geisha This case considers the creation and early growth of California-based TATCHA, a Japanese-themed luxury beauty brand. It explores how Vicky Tsai developed the... View Details