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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

and become a more effective attorney, CPA, or overall colleague. "HBS Online doesn't teach you knowledge or prescribe to any cookie-cutter solutions to problems. Rather, it teaches you how to think about View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

an absolute believer as well as an amateur practitioner of Conscious Capitalism and its sister concept of Servant Leadership, I do not think that either concept solves the problem by itself. What they can do is create the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 13, 2021
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Managing Through Crunch Time—Without Burning Out Your Team

By: Flavio Serapiao, Andrew Hill and Boris Groysberg

Crunch times—the long, stressful hours of work that are often required in the final weeks before a new product launch—can have an inordinate impact on the success of businesses and they’re powerful shapers of organizational culture. Effective leaders understand that... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Situation or Environment; Management Skills

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08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

excellence. Xerox also realized that it had to hire a renowned local scientist as the initial laboratory leader. The leader needed to be able to understand the local scientific community, attract junior scientists with high potential,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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Leadership - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Leadership 1ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year course in Operations Strategy View Details

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U.S. Competitiveness: An Economy Doing Half Its Job

The HBS U.S. Competitiveness Projects report on the most recent alumni survey highlighted a troubling divergence in the U.S. economy. Middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are many small businesses. Professor Jan Rivkin will focus on aspects of the U.S.... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

18 Apr 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

about her journey before and during the MBA program. Where is your hometown? My hometown is Darmstadt, Germany. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I began my career concentrating on developing View Details

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

at Kwinters, the hot-dog stand in my local mall, where I learned how to cook five varieties of hot dogs, managed cash, cleaned the oily fryers and greasy hot-dog containers, and earned minimum wage. It was a... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

jointly by SEAS and Harvard Business School, while Shu was in the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows program, run by SEAS, HBS, and the Harvard Faculty of Arts &... View Details

05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

environment of scientific and industrial expansion. Venture funding occurred more widely in the United States than it ever had done before. While the roots of the American venture capital industry are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Executive Education - Entrepreneurship

essential leadership skills to guide your company through growth and success. Who should attend: OPM alumni who are C-suite executives, owners, or multigenerational business leaders with at least 10 years of... View Details

25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)

their findings in the newly updated working paper “Reputation Burning: Analyzing the Impact of Brand Sponsorship on Social Influencers.” They initiated the study because they were fascinated by the growing overlap between e-commerce View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Technology; Media & Broadcasting

17 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Setting a Higher Bar on Fatherhood

I am often asked the question, “How do you get through business school with a family?” I might give a light-hearted reply, but what I really want to say is, “How do you get through without one?” Here at HBS with me is my incredible wife,... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

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

workers, key issues such as how employees are paid and how they view the scope of their jobs can be crucial to their willingness to contribute ideas that help the company thrive, says Susanna Gallani, assistant professor at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

A recent conference at Harvard Business School addressed the on-the-ground reality of women leaders 50 years after the first women were admitted to the School's two-year MBA Program. And the reality is that... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

granular way because there are real strengths and opportunities when you start to parse the differences. What has the experience of this initial launch done for your outlook on local news? It has reinforced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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