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17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

School Case 510-104 Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

are also more likely to find their corporate failings broadcast in the news. Companies hoping to minimize the risk of media attention to accidents need to be careful not to place their organizations at the very top or the very bottom of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

Clicking the submit button on my Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) application felt like an act of courage, one that left me feeling vulnerable and open to rejection, a sentiment likely shared by many of my peers. As we each... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

expand the size and revenues of Lehman Brothers. The firm bought Neuberger Berman in 2003 and H. A. Schupf in 2007, assuming its place in the wealth and asset management business and offering advice to institutional clients and... View Details

30 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

hand-labeled six different types of questions: introductory, mirror, full-switch, partial-switch, follow-up, and rhetorical questions. Forty-four percent of the questions—more than any other type—were follow-ups. Based on the hand-labeled question types, the research... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-045.pdf Going Through the Motions:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Want employees to think outside the box? Start by taking a good, hard look at how you’re paying them. That’s the implication of new research examining the impact of different compensation structures on employee innovation. While there is endless handwringing about what... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

When I first started teaching executive education classes at Harvard Business School, I was part of a team of five professors who conducted one-week programs for leaders of businesses from all across the globe. Most of my colleagues had... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. With valid outcome and cost information, managers and clinicians can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan

In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization:... View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

typical consumers think. That's fine if you only want to keep making incremental improvements to your products, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a former brand manager at Gillette, Samuel Adams, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor Jeffrey Bussgang has played a critical role in expanding Harvard Business School’s entrepreneurial offerings over the last few years. A Senior Lecturer at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, he is an expert in lean startups as well as... View Details

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

should put together action plans at two levels: team and individual. First, at the team level, managers should ensure that each new policy also has a mechanism for receiving... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

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Brian Kenny | About

where he engineered a branding and marketing program to help propel the university into the top 100 nationwide. Previously he oversaw global marketing for management consultancy The Monitor Group and led... View Details

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Logging In - Research Computing Services

"Don't use a proxy" check and click "Continue." Select the checkbox for "Create a link on the desktop," and click "Continue." Next click "Settings" in the top right corner, click "Privacy", and check the option "Don't show other computers... View Details

24 Apr 2023
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

business—economies of scale and repeatable models, for example—might not apply. You Might Also Like: Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally When Bias Creeps into AI, View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

about the best location or locations for managerial talent, for instance, they should be aware that reallocating talent is neither costless nor easy. Interpersonal relationships and internal communication networks rise in importance. As Desai writes in the paper:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

Bias Disaster? When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/VioletaStoimenova View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

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