Business Environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

from those that succeeded—a form of "superstitious learning." In an environment as challenging as planetary exploration, however, the difference between a failed mission and a successful one is often extremely subtle. There is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5748 Assent-maximizing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

lateral career move. There are benefits to being a working parent, of course—not only for family income and personal fulfillment but also potentially for children’s choices as adults. Research by Kathleen McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of View Details

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and View Details

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

change the story in his head. He decided to pretend that he was flying a Cessna, which makes no sense, and he stopped reacting to all these emergencies in his environment and started pro-acting. But what's interesting, how this gets back... View Details

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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2025 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when... View Details

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

a support group for one another as we navigated the joys and challenges of motherhood. The student parent community at Harvard Business School is heavily skewed towards fathers as opposed to mothers, with a 5:1 father to mother ratio.... View Details

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

Dubinsky: And we get example after example, I just used that one 'cause it's so visual, of ways in which there are things we cannot do today, or it's very dangerous for humans today, that if we had a machine with a little more capability in it, that could do some... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

the student has refused to cooperate with efforts by Harvard University Health Services or other clinicians to determine the cause of the behavior. The student is not cleared to return to enrollment and/or residence at the Harvard View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

of responsibility for public service among private individuals is how business as an establishment can have its greatest impact. And for us at HBS, developing ourselves into service-minded business leaders... View Details

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