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17 Mar 2017
News

Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

thread in my experiences was satisfaction in fixing things that were broken and creating efficiencies and processes.” While at HBS, she talked with alumni, professors, and classmates, and ultimately concluded that human resources aligned... View Details

February 2008
Case

EFI, Inc. (A)

By: David B. Godes and Lauren Barley

EFI has a unique sales compensation challenge. They cannot allocate sales credit for their core product to individual salespeople. So, they've historically paid the sales force as a team. This has worked out fine, since they've been a near-monopoly seller of a single... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Evaluation; Groups and Teams; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives

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01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

producers, instead of investing in just a handful of products and making them appeal to mass audiences, should spread their resources more equally across a larger number of smaller bets. A lot of people in the media world and investors... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

June 2021
Teaching Note

Amazon: Cult or Culture?

By: Boris Groysberg, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-008. Amazon was one of the first entrants in e-commerce. Under the leadership of founder Jeff Bezos, Amazon had expanded beyond books to manufacturing and selling a wide range of products and services globally. Bezos had built a... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Growth Management; Information Technology; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Retail Industry; Technology Industry

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13 May 2014
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Willing Hands

HBS has shaped me as a leader is by showing that the right technical answer might not do you much good at all if you can't also manage the very real people challenges." Spencer describes his other duties as a combination of financial... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

10 Apr 2014
Blog Post

HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting

because I had worked for Airbus as a project manager before coming to HBS and was familiar with the industry. However, I must confess that I was skeptical of the whole FIELD 2 concept: How much work can really get done in 10 days in the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

29 Mar 2019
Blog Post

My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS

HBS. HBS has a number of resources that will help students feel confident and well-equipped to handle all their classes. Current first-year student, Melanie Sperling, shared her experience learning accounting, finance, and analytics... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact

The nonprofit need of for-profit acumen is acute, says Jeff Bradach (AM 1990, PhDOB 1992), cofounder and managing partner of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven... View Details

2011
Working Paper

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth

As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Market Participation; Marketplace Matching; Organizations; Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry

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September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Case

Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career

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Shana Hoffman

of HBS as a school for consultants and corporate management, Shana says, she recognized HBS as the perfect place for her entrepreneurial designs. “I was impressed by HBS’ recent commitments to manufacturing and health care,” she says. “And with View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high income... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Research at HBS | Information Technology

requirements. Resources for Researchers Creating a Data Safety Submission (DAT) at HBS Using Cloud Based Collaboration Tools for Research Research Compliance/IRB Information on the Compute Cluster (RCS) Using Personal Devices for Research... View Details

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
Case

South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'

By: Richard Vietor

South Africa, like most other countries, is in the process of reducing its carbon emissions to comply with COP26 and, hopefully, reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, because South Africa relies almost wholly on coal (93%) for electricity, and on coal for... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Economic Development; Climate Change; Coal Mining; Emission Reduction; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Law; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Natural Resources; Energy Policy; Energy Sources; South Africa

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01 Jun 2010
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HBS Seeks Deeper Ties with China

Chinese managers — not only because we need to write relevant cases to teach, but also because the participants test our thinking in real-time.” The Harvard Center Shanghai, located in the city’s booming Pudong district (see “The Scene”),... View Details

August 29, 2017
Article

How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

By: Tsedal Neeley

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 billion by 2030. Among the enormous changes this will demand are new skills, attitudes, and behaviors. A five-year study of the global workforce at... View Details

Keywords: Global Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Employees; Competency and Skills; Success

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