Active Choice - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details

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 Sep 2023
News

History Matters

The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Jay Bhandari

“wizards and witches'' of business. I wonder how cold Hogwarts gets in the winter What is your most memorable classroom moment? In a Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class, we debated the influence of choice and circumstance... 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

01 Jun 2024
News

Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

is currently enrolled at Harvard College. A member of the HBS Visiting Committee since 1996, Waters has long been involved in fund-raising activities and as a key member of numerous committees at HBS and at the College. In addition, he... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

Your Free E-book Our Difference Global Business will help participants assess opportunities, mitigate risk, and create and capture value for their organization Stay active by engaging in a new activity every... View Details

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

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

schools in the US had access to the ... School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr. August 30, 2022 | Proceedings of the National... View Details

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

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... 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

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou, an assistant professor at London Business School, suggest that luxury goods have an important effect on human behavior that is only now becoming clear—and that may have implications for addressing the continuation of objectionable View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

White people often feel anxious about interacting with non-Whites, and they go out of their way to erect barriers to reduce contact with minorities, according to new research. When routinely making choices about where to live, work,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

strategy, organize for innovation, and discover customer jobs to be done. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through group exercises and an... 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