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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

successfully negotiate at work, on the job hunt, or in day-to-day conversations. As someone that does negotiations as part of my job, I found Professor Wheeler’s Negotiation Mastery course to be both thorough and valuable. This course... View Details

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

introduced low cost production methods to manufacture highly accurate quartz watches. Swiss business historians refer to this as the "Quartz Crisis." Companies like Seiko and Casio seized the quartz market. By 1983, two-thirds of the watch industry View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
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Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal

This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota

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16 Dec 2021
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African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

What was the most difficult part of your experience as a STEM applicant, and how did you overcome it? The admissions interview was most challenging for me because I am used to just letting my work speak for itself by creating a new... View Details

02 Feb 2022
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

This spring we’re speaking with current MBA students who were admitted through 2+2 to learn what they did during their deferral years. Here’s an interview with Nikki Philip (MBA 2023). Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2... View Details

26 Jan 2024
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Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

‘sustainability’ or ‘climate’ does not need to be in your job title for it to be incorporated into your work. They stressed that achieving the pace of transformation needed to decarbonize our economy will require collaboration across all... View Details

07 Jun 2021
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9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

nuanced in these situations, because the donor calls are often done by a combined trustee/donor and a professional working as a team. "Your job is not that of a beggar, but rather that of an educator of donors and an expander of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 May 2019
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Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

least temporarily) having them on hand during your finals or when you are looking for your internship or post-MBA job is very helpful. My mom was a key part of my success at HBS – I would have never done well in my finals and View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

mathematician whose job at Lilly was explicitly to investigate failures. Together they discovered that the patients who suffered negative effects from Alimta typically had a deficiency in folic acid. Further investigation demonstrated... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School and Polaroid Innovation and Entrepreneurship TIMELINE POLAROID FILMS RESEARCH LINKS Digital Archival Resources Archival Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS 60. Ibid. 61.... View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

Harvard Business School professor Lynn S. Paine's new book, Value Shift, argues that companies can't consider themselves amoral or apart from society anymore—that the relationship between companies and society at large necessitates bringing a moral dimension to... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

concludes that: Choice is desirable, but only up to a point. Beyond that, it becomes confusing to a decision-maker. Choice on the job can have varying effects on our health, depending in part on our need for choice. Choice is often... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jan 2019
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MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

every aspect of business, and life – from pitching to giving feedback, from brainstorming to making group decisions, from interviewing to firing. Creating Value Through Activist Investing This course will expose students to the... View Details

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

and delivery delays, and explains how dollar stores have been able to defy the downward trends that have devastated brick-and-mortar retail in recent years. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Harvard Gazette: The... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

on three particular cases: those of Apache, Perl and Sendmail (see "The Fathers of Invention"). In addition to wading through printed interviews and materials, and conducting face-to-face discussions with key players in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

and Mahindra Group. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Forest Reinhardt Global Business John D. Black Professor of Business... View Details

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

This can include the internet version of the required newspaper advertisement. Participation in on-campus recruiting events ( HBS campus presentations and/or interviews ) Posting with trade or professional organizations Having an... View Details

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

startup now in its third year—and it could be his biggest job yet. Listen to an interview with Stéphane Bancel on the Harvard Innovation Labs' podcast series The Other Side. View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

was part of the radical gay liberation movement. He had nothing to do with it, except to coordinate with me to publish it. He took a lot of heat for me back then. Thanks, David! In my second year, when I was looking for a job as a... View Details

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