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CORe Undergraduate Credit | HBS Online

and eligible for student privileges like a Harvard University ID number (to access online library resources), free career and academic webinars, a Harvard Gmail account, and education tax credit and loan deferments. Upon successful... View Details

10 Oct 2011
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Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retailers fail to satisfy. If a consumer needs to touch a fabric, smell a cologne, or sample food, bricks and mortar have an advantage (but only if it can solve the free rider problem created by the Internet). Finally, if a category is complex and the consumer needs to... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

business. In conversations on race in mid-June 2020 and beyond, community members made it resoundingly clear that they felt the School had failed to do all it could and should have done to welcome and advance Black talent, advance knowledge related to race, View Details

21 Nov 2011
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Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

April 2023
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Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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19 May 2022
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HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

April 26, students presented projects focused on a range of topics—female representation in the start-up ecosystem, anticipating climate disasters in Yemen, a community-based approach to early childhood education in Brazil, analyzing... View Details

19 Sep 2005
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Rethinking Company Loyalty

says Grantham. Based on her interest and commitment to furthering her career, as well as on her educational background and strengths—including attention to detail, adherence to rules, and persistence—the company offered her the position... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

15 Sep 2017
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Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

operations in Brazil and Mexico and opened new offices in Peru, Columbia, and Chile. He is now a partner in the Advisory Group at PJT Partners. When making philanthropic choices, Harland and his wife, Ashley Leeds, consider what matters most to them and their family.... View Details

08 Feb 2017
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How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

graduating, I worked briefly for a Cambridge-based education startup named NuVu, before switching into management consulting and joining McKinsey. I spent time at McKinsey’s Dubai and New York offices, where I worked in a variety of... View Details

13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic reasons, but to improve performance and value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

you determine which HBS Online business in society course best aligns with your career level and experience, learning objectives, and educational goals. Access Your Free Flowchart You May Also Be Interested In Leadership & Management... View Details

23 Jun 2008
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Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video game developers to embed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

18 Oct 2017
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How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

change an industry that starts as extractive to producing externalities that foster development.” In the case of Costa Rica’s ecotourism industry, Giacomin reviews earlier analysis by HBS history Professor Geoffrey Jones and research associate Andrew Spadafora. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

educate leaders and catalyze action on this complex and expanding set of issues. Play Our Mission & Objectives Go deeper on our mission and long-term objectives Learn More about our Mission & Objectives Related Initiatives & Projects... View Details

07 Apr 2020
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What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

consumers; 71 percent of those surveyed promised that brands and companies that placed their profits before people during the crisis would lose their trust forever. How can brands help during a crisis? Educate the public by transforming... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

18 Apr 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

dialogue, allowing us to delve into and learn from each other's viewpoints on complex business issues. This aspect of the HBS educational approach, particularly through the case method, has enriched my understanding by exposing me to... View Details

03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010

a new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Harvard Business School's Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. Cullen suggest opportunities for innovation. Understanding Users of Social Networks Many... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories

School became the first school to reintegrate students and I personally was the first student on the ground, working in a relief COVID-hospital. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve my community and challenge the status quo to improve health outcomes for patients... View Details

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