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13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

Advise, but only if asked. A good organization will plan for your succession, and to help out, you may want to develop a couple of plausible candidates. Your boss or human resources may ask for your opinions about who should succeed you,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship

opinions, cathartic to feel that others share your challenges, frightening to see the hurdles ahead, and inspiring to know that it can be done.” — Rock 100: The Network member Apply to be a part of The Rock 100 We will update this Rock 100 website with more information... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

R&D spent in the US in the last couple of decades. And that is just a corpus of knowledge that is the ultimate public good, right? Anybody can access it in theory. India does not invest adequately in R&D, sadly. I’ve written about... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

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FAQ - Alumni

be credited to my class automatically? Yes. Will my spouse and I both receive credit for a gift to HBS? Joint crediting does not happen automatically. Alumni couples must indicate—on the online giving form or gift reply slip—if they would... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

department, hiring approximately 350 researchers each year. The current RA population is comprised of a group of highly qualified people ranging from recent undergraduates to those with over fifteen years of related work experience. They bring to HBS strong experience... View Details

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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The Experience | Predoctoral Researchers

The Experience Work with faculty to gain experience in a variety of research methodologies. The predoctoral researcher role is designed to provide researchers with exposure to a variety of research areas, while gaining experience with different research methodologies.... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

between, some of them are extroverts and some of them are kind of curmudgeonly, and some are introverts, and some are people who love to talk and be charming. That doesn't make a difference into whether you're a super communicator. What makes the difference is whether... View Details

13 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

The researchers asked 655 participants recruited from an online participant pool to think about a “familiar stranger”—someone they had seen a few times in the last couple of months but never interacted with, like a fellow passenger on a... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

11 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

redundant communication, coupled with an escalating sense of urgency, is integral to communicating because it gets the job done. New research shows that getting employees to listen up and deliver isn't so different. “Those without power... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

According to author Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, the fragmented, secretive, often family-owned businesses that have constituted the industry have been difficult for scholars to unlock. Couple... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

have come at a worse time, except for the holiday season. Aisner: I know it's impossible to predict the future, but what might lie ahead for J.C. Penney? Lal: They might be able to get a couple of billion dollars in loans. That way, if... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

body to kickstart the natural immune response. “What’s become clearer over the last couple years is that cancer patients have bad dendritic cells,” Zutshi said. “They don’t have as many, and the ones that they have don’t work as well,... View Details

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

between us and some other firms relates to how we think about the CEO. A couple of years ago, we analyzed our successful companies across multiple dimensions. The one trait of all our successful companies was that the CEO we backed at... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

01 Jun 2024
News

Again and Again

Good habits help keep us on track and in good health, but rituals animate us. They are the emotional catalysts that enhance an ordinary day or make special occasions memorable. When we survey romantic couples, we find a lot of them have little rituals. One View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

relationships and form some roots there. But it's been even better to be married and to grow from there and start our family and start a new journey as a couple and as a family and for our children. And this was the most important... View Details

18 Jan 2024
News

Match Game

and believe in the power of this team to take Tinder to its next phase of growth,” she added. Shares in Match Group rose on news of Iosotaluno’s appointment, as reported by TechCrunch. “Faye’s understanding of the dating category is unparalleled and View Details

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

recognize how the sum is greater than its parts. While each team member played a role in your efforts, it is almost always how the team worked together that led to where you are now. Schedule a couple hours to be together—ideally, face to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

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