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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

For Alumni Rock100 Network When HBS alumni entrepreneurs connect, share their experiences, and learn together, a powerful community is established. Join the Rock100 global network, an exclusive community for... View Details

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Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

change in the world. The forum builds a robust community that connects students and alumni who share a passion for social impact; and supports success in the classroom, navigating the unique career path, and challenges and opportunities... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

institutional development influences the extent to which CSR communications are symbolically decoupled from substantive CSR activities. Our database includes all CSR reports issued by the approximately 1,600 publicly listed Chinese firms... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

world's foremost scholars in fields ranging from psychology to economics, sociology, and history. “Leadership is based on complex phenomena." -Rakesh Khurana As Khurana explains below, leadership—what it means, why it matters—is an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

example, instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community deals with the impact of sea level rise and related concerns, highlighting costs, benefits, property rights and the View Details

22 Jul 2002
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Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

Because pricing is such a difficult and complex arena, it has confounded sales and marketing executives and scholars for centuries. In no other marketing element is the two-sided conflict and cooperation nature of the buyer-seller... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War

The resources below have been selected by Baker librarians to help members of our community learn more about the conflict. The list attempts to incorporate a wide range of perspectives to enable the reader to form their own... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

classrooms and on our campus. We find ourselves facing difficult and complex questions about what constitutes hate speech and private speech, particularly in a digital era; how we navigate free expression and our View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Kumar, Kevin Schulman and Karen Staman Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

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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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

for our second module: Resourcing the Business Model . Leading the firm by: 1) making tough tradeoffs when setting strategy, resolving cross-functional conflict, and making hiring/firing decisions; and 2) communicating a vision that... View Details

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Events - Business History

discussions. The goal was to bring together a community of scholars who have utilized oral history to enhance their research and teaching on management and business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Dec 15 15... View Details

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

systemic pressures related to our theme: race, capitalism and democracy. We aimed to host a thoughtful conversation about these themes, the crises we are facing today, and how we, as a community of scholars and thoughtful practitioners... View Details

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

the vibrant entrepreneurial community at Harvard. GETTING LIFE-SAVING DRUGS TO MARKET is a research focus for Professor Amitabh Chandra . He examines the unique effects that economics and market factors have on the development of... View Details

17 Jan 2011
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Being the Boss

and the right resources. We really think that's at the heart. The last piece is your team. That's about all the complexities of what it means to build a team—a team is different from just a group—and how you think about managing the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

me for the rest of my life. I hope this inspires others looking to get a similar transformational experience know that you can do it too! While these takeaways aren’t unique, this is my perspective. #1 You can build a community online.... View Details

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. More recently, some companies have begun advocating for government policies to address climate change. Electricity Shifting to sustainable electricity... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

community. Read More Rock Summer Fellows Rock Summer Fellows enables students to continue to explore their entrepreneurial path, both as founders and as those interested in joining early-stage startups, through a 10-week summer fellowship that provides not only... View Details

17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

deployed to handle uncertain tasks. How can they effectively use their knowledge resources to assure quality communications and high performance when confronting uncertainty? Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2019
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Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

there’s no one-size-fits-all strategy. Capturing a city’s unique spirit and complex tapestry requires a custom approach. That said, many of the branding rules that apply to soda, clothes, and cars, also apply to places: Understand the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

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