Business Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2018 (Revised January 2020)
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STRIVR (B): Moving into the Enterprise

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

STRIVR, a company focused on virtual reality training, has decided to shift focus from sports to enterprise customers. The change in strategy requires the CEO to solve a number of issues. The company initally offered training for hard skills, but clients have been... View Details

Keywords: Strivr; Virtual Reality; Soft Skills; Hard Skills; VR; Applications and Software; Market Entry and Exit; Business Strategy; Training; Sports; Technology Industry; Education Industry; United States

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Purchase

11 Apr 2011
News

Challenges, solutions for South Asia

18 Apr 2012
News

Lessons in a common language

06 Feb 2015
News

Why Managers Are the New Trainers

21 Oct 2019
News

Women At Ernst & Young Instructed On How To Dress, Act Nicely Around Men

2014
Report

Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia and Alexis Young

The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the competitiveness of American firms... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Education; Competency and Skills; Macroeconomics; United States

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Read Now

13 May 2011
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Rebuilding America's inner cities

14 May 2015
News

One Day After Wreck, Increased Funding for Amtrak Fails in a House Panel

04 Oct 2012
News

5 Key Questions to Gauge the Culture in Your Startup

26 Oct 2011
News

The Power of 'Power Posing'

17 Feb 2016
Video

An MBA student helps young people figure out their 'why'

Video

HBS Online Community Challenge 2020

14 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) at HBS is a one week management training program for rising college seniors. It’s designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, and... View Details

24 Jan 2022
News

Rising COVID Cases in Us Nursing Homes Prompt Hospital Warnings

Benjamin C. Esty

Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services

Stuart C. Gilson

Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit. His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services

Das Narayandas

Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation

11 Jan 2022
News

A New Era for the American Worker

09 Nov 2011
News

Learning from Peter Drucker and the Girl Scouts

Frank V. Cespedes

Frank Cespedes is Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, M.S. from M.I.T. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

At Harvard, he has developed and taught a variety of MBA and executive... View Details

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