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- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA
aid that considerably reduces the price of our program. Fun[d] facts: Scholarships are free gifts that do not need to be paid back 50% of our students qualify for a need-based scholarship, on average it’s worth $92,000 over 2 years Students can apply to get... View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
replacing one toxic worker, which is almost double the figure a company gains from hiring a “superstar.” A superstar in the top 1 percent of performers adds $5,303 in increased performance to a company’s profit, Minor’s paper Toxic... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To that end, we went tip hunting to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
authors say. The book explains how power can be shared more evenly among citizens, employees, top executives, and shareholders for the betterment of individuals, organizations, and institutions around the world. "The motive for the book... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
starts to look more like the past if I make automatic decisions that are all based on inferences of the past. For consumers and the world, we have this opportunity right now to avoid using data from the past. We can create systems, so the... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
with these projections. But they suggest that it's time that we ask whether we have been using the right measures for growth. First, when we speak of growth, it usually refers to growth in gross domestic product, the value of all goods... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
way to test in-person interaction. And there, perhaps, was revealed the ultimate proof that follow-up questions work. The top third of question askers got the most second dates. Researchers found that if a participant were to ask just one... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
markets. The top left figure displays treasury yields at different maturities, and shows that yields, particularly short-term yields, have begun to rise over the recent time period. This is in line with expectations that the Federal... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
HBS journey. However, my fellow classmates in the VCPE club were very gracious in helping me hone my early-stage investment thesis, practice investment memos, and connect me with their friends in the top VC funds in the US. After many... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
however, his $600-million, 1.8-million-square-foot International Place - one of the top ten office buildings in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal - is a Boston landmark and a monument to Chiofaro's daring and tenacity.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 07 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant
society at large. I pursued my undergraduate degree at a small liberal arts college, Ohio Wesleyan University, where I double majored in Economics and Politics & Government. Ohio Wesleyan was a great college fit for me. I received enormous support from professors,... View Details
- 20 May 2024
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts
my dad—and I will take many of the lessons I’ve learned from them into my leadership style. The top ones are being humble—nothing is above me, nothing is below me—and leading from the heart. I care more about the heart than the work... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
if people do well, it is only right that they should help to pay for the setup that made their success possible. More to FDR's point, people who do better should pay for more of that setup. FDR's reasoning is far from obsolete; our... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
your agent may not be enough. For example, top executive pay attorney Joe Bachelder once took his client aside after the first negotiating session. The board had selected his client to be its next CEO and was working out his compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
Ten years before Harvard Business School published its first case study, activists across Europe celebrated the first International Women’s Day. They demanded, among other things, the right for women to hold public office and an end to... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
different time from operational review meetings. In that way, each meeting has its own frequency, agenda, information system, and participation, as best meets the goals for that meeting. Q: Given the proliferation of tools, how should management choose the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS
year at Google, and it still felt like a dream. I loved my role. My coworkers and managers were expert mentors. I felt like the company’s top priority (so did everyone else!). I played soccer twice a week on Google’s idyllic Mountain View... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
objected. They supported the notion of diversity and inclusion regardless of economics. As Yin put it, “We should promote diversity and inclusion because it’s the right thing to do.” Sterileneutrino added, “ wasn’t the USA built precisely... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details