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IT Strategy: Helping Leaders Grow Their Skills | Information Technology

establish a comprehensive and consistent approach to competency-based training, development, and evaluation for people managers within our organization. By identifying and focusing on the critical skills... View Details

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Private Equity - Screening for Portfolio Operations Roles

Using Baker Library databases, it is possible to screen for firms that currently employ people in portfolio operations or in an operations department. Capital IQ Select Screening > Companies from the top menu bar. Under the... View Details

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Building business for a better Brazil

Heinz, and Burger King. “Create a big dream. Keep it simple, easily understood, and measured. Attract the right people who work well together. Measure results consistently,” says Lemann. “You can create, run, or improve anything with this... View Details

25 Oct 2004
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Planning for Surprises

so common? A: Our research shows that there are psychological, organizational, and political factors that conspire to keep us from dealing with problems that are worthy of our attention. Psychological vulnerabilities have to do with well-recognized biases in the way... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

have not taught managers and marketers we have a problem, and so, if you think that more data will solve the problem of what is not in the data, then we are misleading people in a serious way. How would cars... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

candidate for V.C. if he had more operations experience. In May, Matt landed a few interviews with health technology companies, but the fit was not quite right. “They were looking for people with more product View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2017
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The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

seen this scale of refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Second, from the late 1990s, the EU has been putting in place common border policies and a common asylum system, but this new institutional infrastructure has not been tested before. View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top

people in the company and the person who is working the assembly line or answering the phones. How do you stay in touch with those who work for you? Mühlemann: Walking around, seeing customers together with colleagues, e-mail,... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)

normalcy and finish my degree. My professors knew I had a health condition, but that was all. During case discussions, I thought everyone was talking about me, not the CEO. I only told two friends. The shame and stigma keeps you from being open and saying “I just had... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Alvarez has visited farms, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and supermarkets to explore issues of concern to managers working around the world and across the supply chain. “We try to get into the weeds of what’s happening and speak to the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called TechnoServe. At TechnoServe, Lu worked... View Details

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Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs

achievement was how routine it felt once we got back into it," said Corsino. "Yes, people were wearing masks and the snacks were individually packaged, but the broad strokes were remarkably similar to what we normally do." Throughout the... View Details

12 Nov 2015
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Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

18 Nov 2020
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Books@Baker: Joseph Badaracco

decision personally or professionally. So says Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco, who studied classic works and interviewed more than 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy people... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

of hundreds of managers around the world, Amabile found “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation. Her book, The Progress Principle, details the research and addresses important questions about how our inner... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones

Through Jana Care, a start-up he cofounded in Bangalore, India, Sidhant Jena (SPH 2011, MBA 2011) is building affordable diagnostics and evidence-based lifestyle coaching programs on mobile phones to make diabetes management cheaper,... View Details

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Ann Chao

In her previous HBS profile, Ann Chao, MBA 2013, said she hoped to be one of those people who "can bridge the gap between creativity and business." She didn’t waste time. "After graduation," Ann says, "I didn’t... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

physics, medicine, and other disciplines; they study business issues through new lenses and bring a wider range of methodologies to their research. This is a crucial aspect of what makes HBS unique; it means we can bring all these perspectives to bear on View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Dec 2017
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Growing from Within

Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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