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- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
deter him from a path to leadership. “If there is one thing that I pride myself on actually understanding today, it is organizational behavior. My low grade in OB motivated me to really figure it out, because in my job today, it is far... View Details
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Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog
Benetton/Edizione Carvajal S.A COFRA/C&A J.M. Huber Market Basket Milo’s Tea Pentland Brands White Castle The core text for the course will be Harvard Business Review’s Family Business Handbook , written by Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. View Details
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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
We will pay focused attention to which of these insights, tools, and behaviors are useful to our leadership going forward. Grading / Course Administration: Grading is based on class participation (50%) and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sabina Robinov
"right," the rational thing to do. As a fifteen year old, I was already thinking about the long term and my ability to take care of my family. Getting A grades became my highest priority. Choosing my career path was a matter of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jessica Reid
that gave you the best grades or let you get away with the most. Instead, it was that teacher who challenged you to be a better student and, more importantly, a better person. In third grade, I voted for Mrs. Dodge. At first, I thought... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
grading standards? Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the "fundamental attribution error." The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking Senator John Heinz Professor of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Paul Sternhell
I did not imagine that I could be a successful student until a fourth grade teacher showed me a better way to study. My leadership capabilities went unused before friends encouraged me to run for club officer positions in college. If you... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ceena Beall
to Houston, TX to create a better life for his family and became an entrepreneur owning and operating car washes with only a 6th grade education. Due to life circumstances, there was no family-owned business to be handed down. Most of my... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
grades and being better. So the achievement [goal] needs to change over to real-world accomplishment. And this is something that can happen everywhere, all over the world. Kids in poor places can be improving their water-quality systems;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
enhancing classroom learning. Learning Teams are also assigned graded projects in several first-year required courses. “By getting to know each other, working closely together, and making joint decisions, the students experience the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
comparatively straightforward corporate bonds by citing 10-year historical data from Fitch on their default probability. Within the 10 investment grade rating categories of AAA to BBB-, the annualized default rate only varies between .02... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
financing sources and how to practically access them, including early grants, non-dilutive financing sources, equity financing, and more Identify best practices for building teams (incl. compensation structures) & boards Explore ethical considerations while working in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
Many Zambian girls face major challenges early in life. They drop out of eighth and ninth grade at three times the rate of their male counterparts and contract HIV twice as often. Many will die due to complications associated with... View Details
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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog
United States Congress, and advising governments, central banks, inter-governmental organizations, and sovereign ruling families throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia on matters of Innovation Policy, Impact Investing, Climate Change, Pension Structure, and Family Office... View Details
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
conflicts—real or perceived—are most apparent when a faculty member is grading a student’s work, but they can also exist when there is the potential to grade future work, to vote on degrees, or to vote on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ruby Tamberino
faster. If I was older, smarter, stronger, I could take control; I could fix everything. I could care for my family. With this in mind, I fell in love with success: the milestones I achieved and the grades I brought home were under my... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
paradigm.” MJ has launched programs in Maryland’s two largest counties, whose school districts reach nearly 300,000 students. In Montgomery County, the state’s largest, MJ has partnered with the Audubon Naturalist Society. In 9th grade... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarah Sommer
"Your daughter is deaf and she may never read beyond a fourth grade reading level," the doctor told my parents when I was two. 30 years later when I greet each day by putting on my "ears" -- my cochlear implants -- I... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jialei Tian
was not improving fast enough despite my efforts. The embarrassment and disappointment I felt burned a deep scar in my memory. Since then I have always sought to protect myself from failing – choosing a slightly easier class for a better View Details
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Maxeme Tuchman
By her junior year in high school, Max Tuchman was a hair's breadth away from dropping out. At issue were neither her grades nor conditions at home, but her disgust with the "poor quality of the Miami-Dade public schools," says... View Details