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20 Jun 2019
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

leadership at Harvard Business School, the university is in a unique position to take the lead in this training. What types of individuals are you looking for? We are looking for the next leaders who wish to think deeply about challenges... View Details

26 Jun 2018
Blog Post

6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek

conversations can provide you with entirely different perspectives. During the entire weekend, I was tremendously surprised by how many diverse ideas I got just by listening to my classmates. It is always good to have our individual... View Details

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

04 Sep 2019
News

INK: Out of Exile

or flood, or swarm—these terribly inaccurate, dehumanizing metaphors. If we started to think in individual stories, we might get much more imaginative about how we reshape the world. That’s something that I actually learned when Warren... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

serve recovering cardiac patients and other individuals who may have potential heart problems. Reis, a medical doctor and former emergency-room physician from Israel, explained that a similar service has operated in Israel for some ten... View Details

19 Dec 2008
News

WHBS, 820 on Your Dial

Times, and other campus news. Later years saw a great variety in program content: visiting businessmen as guest speakers, Career Guidance Forums, “Music to Study By,” “Music to Relax By,” “Open House” (in which individual students were... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2010
News

Health IT at the Bedside

implementation. Systems need to be selected, workflows altered, and the inevitable kinks ironed out. Change is hard. Yet, in my experience, after an individual or organization undergoes the transition from paper to digital, few would ever... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

others? We show that individuals aim to achieve equity but that they narrowly bracket their equity concerns. Rather than equalize overall budgets, individuals equalize the time component or money component... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

advances in what is called "credit risk transfer" technology have lowered the vulnerability of the international financial system to any individual bank crisis. There has been less discussion about where the transferred risk has... View Details

Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

questions for leaders and potential leaders. What does it take to lead effectively now? What does leadership even mean? In Lead to Win, Carla Harris examines the journey from individual contributor to leader. She targets the essential... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

1999, she obtained her MBA from the Darden School of Business. Professor Opie’s research focuses primarily on how organizations can create workplace cultures that successfully leverage individual difference and convey respect for View Details

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

valuable than the individual components of the portfolio.” In other words, it's a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing—each unit is trying to maximize its own performance, generally without much regard to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Field Course: The United States and China: Challenges for your Business - Course Catalog

on the strategies of firms as they navigate an ever more challenging political and regulatory landscape in both China and the United States. The class is an optional continuation of Q3, designed for students, working individually or in... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

(AASU)—were each presented with the Hutchins Center’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (far right), director of the center. The medal is Harvard’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies and is awarded to View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Books

Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (Simon & Schuster) Associate Professor Norton and his coauthor explain why individuals and companies seeking to create happier employees and provide "happier products" to their customers can... View Details

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Events | Baker Library

Library Tours Baker Library welcomes individuals and groups to explore our spaces. All are welcome. Learn more about our tours Still need help? Our expert librarians are here to help you find what you’re looking for. Ask a Librarian View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Doctoral Alumni Take Stage

an opportunity for young scholars to report on their current work and socialize with faculty and current doctoral students. Nine doctoral alumni (pictured above), all assistant professors at their respective universities, took part in the April 13 sessions, featuring... View Details

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

01 Dec 2003
News

Selling Digital Privacy

marketing companies to sell it. Consumers, he asserts, have much to gain — be it money, price discounts, better customer service, or products tailored specifically to their needs. In the current system, information that is gathered about View Details