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Ameel Somani

TPC, I also saw that I didn't have a full understanding of functional areas, such as operations and marketing." HBS stood out for a number of reasons. "I felt the case method was a fascinating way to learn. You're in a classroom with ninety View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

New Releases

the social environment on creative motivation and behavior in a variety of contexts, including the organization. From an ongoing multiyear research project into the nature of creativity and how social factors influence its manifestations, Amabile provides new insights... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

them by favoring reform based on central government control rather than the forces of competition, meritocracy, and individual accountability. Let me be clear about one thing: the previous government, as most previous governments, failed... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

includes personal and institutional papers of leaders and firms, with a focus on the financial industry. Examples of these contemporary archives include records of firms and individuals recognized for advances in technology; financial... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

for individuals to save money safely, transfer funds inexpensively, and lift themselves out of poverty. So what is it that can make a much-needed service flourish? After studying 10 mobile money services—half successful, half not—in... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Mar 2004
News

The New Global Business Manager

power comes a huge responsibility to act as global citizens who make a contribution. The great challenge for multinational corporations in the next decade will be to establish the confidence of society at large, governments in particular, and even of View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

CareerSearch. "We've negotiated special licenses for these services on the portal - services that are otherwise unavailable to individual subscribers," explains Michalak. A Community-Wide Effort The development of HBS Working Knowledge... View Details

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

adjustment to a job or work environment that makes it possible for an individual with a disability to perform their job duties. Accommodations may include specialized equipment, modifications to the work environment or adjustments to work... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

“A National System of Income Supplementation”

neighborhoods. It also called for “a national system of income supplementation,” whose goal was not so much to increase “welfare,” but to economically stabilize impoverished communities in order to encourage private-sector investment and View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Career Coach

Aaron Mitchell

profession, he can provide support in developing job search skills, resume, bio and profile development, as well as behavioral interviewing skills. Aaron has a passion for coaching and mentoring and enjoys helping individuals develop... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

the team was able to draw some conclusions about how the companies performed individually and as a hypothetical portfolio. They were also able to make some observations about how investor behavior contributed to the success of View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

with a team of other investors, a skill anyone entering today's world of finance must master. Contrary to the image of the lone, brilliant stock wizard, they say, every firm has investment meetings where individuals critique each other's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more likely to engage in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

companies. For years, he said, the media industry has operated in a very fragmented economic structure that gave an individual company "a perverse incentive to defend its territory instead of attacking globally." That is coming... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

01 Jun 2008
News

HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

(unlike all other HBS financial-aid offerings), and recipients will still be eligible to receive need-based assistance over and above their fellowships. Possible candidates for the fellowships would include physicians, lab scientists, and biotech professionals, as well... View Details

Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Research Online

rationally? HBS professors Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval, and Harvard University professor Jeremy Stein don’t think humans are such cold calculators. One proof: Individual and even institutional investors often give in to inertia and retain... View Details

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

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

individual leaders as well as senior management teams to improve team alignment with organizational goals. Lauren brings decades of management experience to her coaching work. For 14 years, she was the Director, Career Education &... View Details

29 Nov 2017
Blog Post

HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise

great school, period.However, my luck in choosing Kansas doesn’t mean my time as a collegiate student-athlete was easy. Far from it. Did you know that the average Division I athlete spends nearly 40 hours per week on athletic commitments? Team practice, View Details

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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog

in a business context. More is obviously better, but how as a business do you get to be trusted in the first place—and then after that? What can you do to recover when trust is lost? And what can individuals do, whether they are leaders... View Details

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