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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
spending two years at HBS and making lifelong friends, Whitney’s early career at Bain Capital, and the investment business he helped found and build, Gauge Capital. As a young family, we were thrilled to receive fellowship support. It was... View Details
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
“Kinect” they were able to determine which researchers were quickest to use the new motion-capture knowledge embodied in the Kinect. Generalists created more impact When they compared the two sets, they found that the top 25 percent most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
Success in Social Enterprise," ending August 1. This two-year study was the second carried out by SEKN since it was founded in 2001 as a research partnership between HBS and leading business schools in Latin America and Spain. SEKN's... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
you a transferable skill set,” says Faraz. “In terms of transferable skills, most of our guests talk about communication. And thinking on your feet. [At my consulting internship] I found that managing patients is not very different from... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
founded by billionaire Branson, wants to sell short, suborbital flights, in which passengers get a taste of zero gravity and see the Earth’s curvature. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo commercial vehicle made its inaugural trip into space... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
a series of studies, they found that when leaders were focused on their own sense of power, they can hurt the performance of their teams—but with an important catch. The effects only occur when leaders are actually in a position of power.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
season from the website BasketballReference.com, and then compared how many minutes each player played under black coaches versus white. He found that players averaged 40 second less per game when playing for a coach of a different race,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
texts created a foundation for a friendship, and that friendship turned into something more as summer turned into fall and we found ourselves back in Boston. Now here we are some six years later, engaged and getting ready to graduate... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Chan
A typical five-year old on a Saturday morning would likely be watching the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. Not me. I could be found watching The Weather Channel. I was enamored by the weather. I grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
The World Bank estimates that the equivalent of $1 trillion is offered in bribes every year. In the age of globalization, it's easy to see how giving into bribery might be competitively advantageous. In fact, research by Harvard Business School's Paul M. Healy and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entrants spend 34% (7.2 months) longer than follow-on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
seems to support this logic. First, consumers themselves report a greater sensitivity (or awareness) of price than of quantity. Second, in tracking the sale of snack foods we found that consumers reacted greatly to periodic changes in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
with dynamic case studies that I found fascinating." Alvina Chan Sustainable Investing Participant What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
to measure star power. When I looked closely at the data used in my study, I found that rankings of stars based on their past box-office performance can change dramatically over the course of just a few years. Star power is a highly... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
in commodity markets. The three pairs represented different parts of the value chain: supplier-manufacturer, manufacturer-distributor, and manufacturer-customer. "People have always argued that depending on where you are in the demand chain, the dynamics might be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022
did during their deferral years. Read More>>> LEARNING FROM THE ENTREPRENEURS-IN-RESIDENCE AS A HARVARD MS/MBA STUDENT I have found during my first year at Harvard Business School that there are an infinite number of ways to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
interactions is one of the things that I most love about Harvard Business School. I have found the Dean’s role to involve a lot more interactions with other people, too: alumni and business leaders, fellow deans at Harvard and other... View Details
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Program Experience: Leading in the Digital Era
Leading in the Digital Era participants discuss why they chose to attend the program, what aspects of the program they found most compelling, and how they plan to implement what they've learned at their organizations. View Details