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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

01 Jan 2002
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Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including one year at the University of Paris) Other 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

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

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors William Sahlman Entrepreneurship Essentials Baker Foundation Professor "Entrepreneurship Essentials... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

than retaliate. Next, since higher-paid workers want to hold on to their jobs, they would not be as likely to steal as lower-wage workers might. In this case, not stealing is "not a matter of being loyal to your employer," Sandino says. "You are... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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HBS - The year in Review

Program by revising the need-based formula for financial aid and waiving application fees, and becoming the first academic partner to the OneTen Initiative , which aims to create 1 million jobs for Black Americans without a college degree... 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

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

these narratives A common feature of all resilient businesses we interviewed is that they proactively sought information from a variety of sources, including suppliers, trade associations, and health care professionals. Managers readily... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

magazine's offices on his way to a job interview at Dartmouth College. As a result of that meeting, and subsequent introductions, Levitt found a home in the Marketing area at HBS. "That sequence of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

money you made or what titles you had. All that people will remember is what you did for them, especially those who love you.’ It was a little embarrassing, because I had been trying to get the best-paying job I could and was joining a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
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On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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What Black Executives Really Want

interviewing about a dozen black executives in depth—young black professionals in their 20s. We asked them to tell us their whole story, from the beginning to what they are doing now and where they are working. After that, we started... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Jeffrey Bussgang Launching Tech Ventures Senior Lecturer of Business Administration “Whether you’re a... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

articulate how innovative people think. So over a period of years, we interviewed hundreds of innovators and almost 5,000 executives to identify ways of thinking that distinguish innovative people from typical executives. What we found is... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

and bolts of how to create, build, and sustain effective relationships with like-minded organizations to better accomplish a social goal. Previous research with colleagues on growth suggested that growth does not necessarily translate into greater social value... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role with NPS, or continue to engage with the career path I... View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

both employers and employees to strike a brand-new balance when it comes to loyalty—one that gives organizations the focus and expertise they need to compete and employees the career development opportunities they demand? According to the experts View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

very quickly ... It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right.'" “It happens very quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

attending industry conferences, visiting their companies, interviewing them, developing a practitioner advisory team, and maybe spending some time working as a practitioner. (For his own part, Toffel worked as director of environment,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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