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- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
feedback, how to remain ethical in tough situations, how to focus on your career and life over the long term. It is an incredible gift to be able to carve out some time over two years to think actively about such questions. Connections: I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
coordinate the effort. They raised funds to rescue financial institutions, the New York Stock Exchange, and the City of New York. They worked with US treasury secretary George Cortelyou to move gold reserves to the places of greatest need. They View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
A: Leaders must make conscious, principled choices. Such principled choices define a firm's character. They are: Purpose: It defines the firm's contribution to customers, employees, investors, community, and society, not only increasing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
2000). But it is also politically harder to sustain then, for example, the Thai "dual track" strategy with growth impulses for both exporting and local activities that turned out to generate broad-based public support (Looney,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
early 1990s to reflect the increasing use of networks. Then later in the 1990s, Microsoft once again began "re-architecting" its component base to facilitate the delivery of "Web services," applications that can be View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
of Strategy Execution Understand the various tensions managers face as they execute strategy and implement a framework for managing those tensions effectively. Highlights Making Tough Choices Push to Profitability Analyzing Management... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
senior research fellow Laura L. Nash are conducting for a forthcoming book on the meaning and choices behind the success of high contributors. Success that endures, they are discovering, stems from four particular sources that are often... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
active participation of prominent African alumni, including Hakeem Belo-Osagie (HBS ’80), as well as others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in... View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals
as in career. "Career decisions are life decisions," he says. "All the dimensions of your life will be part of your career decision-making; anything that impinges on your choices merits attention." Re-visioning the... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
risk, and create and capture value for their organization Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through quizzes. Description of silent animated... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
well as financial analysis. In a world in which companies are expected to behave as moral actors that conform their activities to certain ethical requirements, financial tests of acceptability alone are insufficient. In the book, I spell... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
help corporations build relationships between their brands and their customers in the online marketspace. The Price Of Privacy The power of these new technologies and their ability to shadow an individual's online choices and habits are... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
more for crafting negotiation campaigns than for doing solo deals. Analysis of negotiation campaigns builds on familiar concepts such as linkage and coalition building. In many cases, however, the parties relevant to a campaign as well as the fronts may not be obvious... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
tasks, including data entry. All participants completed day one of the study (receiving $35 for their trouble). They were given the choice of whether to return on the second day (in which case they'd receive an additional $15). As with... View Details
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
the world. While seeking, she aligned her professional choices with a larger mission rather than following a linear path. While currently a Partner at CrossBoundary , a mission-driven investment firm focused on underserved markets, her... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
of the things they think you need to know about the HBS/HKS joint degree. It's a three year, integrated program Taniel: Coming to HBS/HKS was an easy choice when I learned that my experience would not be bifurcated. Instead, it truly is... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of your View Details
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
as CEO. I agree but CEO selection is more complex for family companies. Options for Family Companies In family companies, you also have the choice of family and non-family successors, giving you four broad View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
have been the preferred method. Is this good or bad? Desai: Much as free cash flow was a little-used metric 30 years ago and is now dominant, the capital allocation problem is now the dominant financial frame on a business. In the book, I lay out the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman