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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Speak the language of alternative investments so that you can better communicate and collaborate with your colleagues and customers Evaluate alternative... View Details

May 2009 (Revised August 2010)
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The Jenner Situation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Andy Whittemore and Eliot Sherman

Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic medical center. During his first week on the job he has become aware of the abusive behavior and temper outbursts of a prominent orthopedic surgeon. How Dr. Lemont handles the situation will be... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Conflict Management; Health Industry

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19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

at how frequently we’re asked to give—by email, at the grocery store, by postcards, from community organizations—we can’t always say yes. So, the fact that people are looking for excuses not to give doesn’t necessarily mean they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

disapproval takes the form of silence—“the death pause,” as Pixar’s Ed Catmull describes it. Improv comedy teaches us to keep an open mind, understanding that communication drives insight and that closed conversations generally fail.... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Katie Sadler

art scene. Above all, the community is unparalleled; I still go back to my high school, Forest Hills Northern, to visit my old teachers. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? While it’s important to have an opinion,... View Details

13 Jul 2020
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

that, but the effects are huge. And this is striking Brown and Black communities at a staggering, alarming rate. Frazier: Absolutely. Neeley: Unmasking is the right word. I want to pivot and ask you about George Floyd's devastating death.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

30 Mar 2003
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The Future of IT Consulting

The explosion of "computer-to-computer" communication in the twenty-first century is triggering a growth phase for IT consultants. Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan and HBS Interactive Senior Vice President Larry... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

program through trusted word-of-mouth channels (senior influencers on social media, and WhatsApp and community groups). For Laryea, who has worked around the world, the biggest takeaway was the importance of refining one’s global... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Tara Basu Trivedi

year of work in the real world. Being part of the HBS community is like Discovering that you’re a tiny fish in a giant ocean. But rather than focus on how tiny you are, you learn to appreciate how much your life can be enriched by all the... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply tools and frameworks to effectively... View Details

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

into “a learning community with shared values and common goals." In the classroom, Christensen was a true artist, like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, as he posed questions to students, listened carefully to their replies, and then... View Details

06 Oct 2010
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John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

fear mongering and all the other attack strategies (more on that soon). Delay There are questions and concerns that can kill a good proposal simply by creating a deadly delay. They so slow the communication and discussion of a plan that... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

dramatically improves outcomes and controls health care costs. By expanding strategically and integrating with community providers, those already renowned for innovation and excellence and patient care can widen access, improve... View Details

25 Mar 2021
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Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

situation created by COVID-19, there is an essential need for our community to prioritize taking care of ourselves and each other. SAS staff offer a number of customized programs throughout the year to respond to student stressors and... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

potentially have a role for everyone in which they feel they can contribute to overcoming the uncertainty, overcoming the crisis. Community. All of us live in communities. so it’s extremely important that we set an example, model behaviors that are View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
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Wheel Change

round last December, is the first professional sports league to be majority-minority owned. “For people under 40, the most popular US sports league is e-gaming,” Wallace explains. “Young people are looking for communities and sports that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; cycling; entrepreneurship; leadership; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

18 Feb 2010
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The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

Keywords: by Lyra Colfer & Carliss Y. Baldwin

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Market Triads: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Market Intermediation (Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, June 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana

This paper examines the role of executive search firms in CEO search. The paper argues that the numerical shift from two party market transactions (e.g. buyers and sellers) to three party transactions (e.g. buyers, sellers, and third party) transforms market exchanges... View Details

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