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- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
the couch can be appealing, but it is not the ideal long term solution. Therefore, it’s important for managers to check in with their teams, and for individuals setting up their own work from home spaces to... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic theories to understand... View Details
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Tiffany Niver
experiences. It also helped me think through the necessary skills and qualifications I need not only now, but also in the future. It gave me access and exposure to executives, their personal narratives and paths, and their advice and encouragement. Above all, however,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
board of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra. His father, world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, a frequent Yo-Yo Ma collaborator, often hosted musicians at the family home. Prieto took up violin at an early age and would continue to play... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
management experience and lay the financial groundwork for his family to transition into the world of nonprofits. He wound up staying twice as long. “Every year it would get to bonus time, and I’d say, ‘All... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on... View Details
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The best of Working Knowledge in your inbox Sign up for weekly newsletters Since 1999, Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
percent on those investments. RECOVERY DELAYED While that response to the crisis may make rational sense, it also may explain why Spain took so long to recover from the recession. “If you make [shorter-term] investments that will turn up... View Details
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learn, and work more effectively every day. To get help, email us at ithelp@hbs.edu . Getting Started Information for community members who are setting up new accounts at HBS. Onboarding Resources Policies and Guidelines Setting View Details
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Craig Baker
Craig Baker grew up in southeastern Idaho, and he finds it perfectly fitting that his first career assignment after completing his undergraduate degree in business and information-systems management took him... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Lawson, 27. "My partner and I were inexperienced managers, but we had a lot of energy and a solid business plan." Once she raised the seed capital, everything began to fall into place: she filled out the management team (including a CEO),... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
become more and more of a relevant problem over the past eight years or so.” US politics are heating up ahead of the November presidential election as voters evaluate candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
A Class Notes correspondent for ten years and counting, Shoshanah (“Shosh”) Cohen came to her 10th Reunion first and foremost “to find out what everyone's been up to.” Second was for an event that she helped to organize, a panel... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
College Programs Webinar for International Schools
HBS offers three programs for college students including two preview experiences (Peek Weekend and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred admissions process for college seniors who are ready to apply to an... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 and 2007,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Victoria Chen
Victoria enjoys helping others navigate career choices in any of the following industries: media & technology, management consulting, and start-ups; or serve as a soundboard to those who are still making up... View Details