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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the product-design company IDEO noticed that some subjects... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
a career change? From Day 1, orient your time, energy and mental space to where you want to be. Note: In November of 2015 unshrinkit appeared on Shark Tank and received a $150,000 investment from Mark Cuban. View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
by the World Economic Forum. The U.S., ranked number one in four of the last six years, scored high on business environment, financial markets, and innovative capacity. Germany, number two, benefited from its orientation on exports, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Thomas Grenier
to tomorrow, rather than to an idealized vision of what I hope to have accomplished by the distant future. I want to enjoy each day, including the earliest ones, and take time to learn from those around me. This might seem short-term View Details
- Web
Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
oriented should include some aspect of social equity and community engagement. And still be a profitable business.” “We’re still deciding what projects I’ll work on,” Michael says. But his formal title is, Special Assistant to the CEO,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
that will drive changes to how people eat. The first is, of course, the fact that many people are now aware of how environmentally taxing animal-based protein is. And the second thing is that people are increasingly aware of the health impacts of a diet that is so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
graduate now devotes his time to socially oriented investment and entrepreneurship projects in England and the Middle East. William H. Donaldson (MBA ’58) The cofounder and former chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Bill... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
ties between all of you and the School. The fact that I am the first non-U.S. member of the Alumni Board to serve in this capacity says much about the global orientation of HBS today. Having served on the board for the past three years,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
This raises a number of questions about who pays a lot...and who pays a little. Can sellers take low-cost subtle actions that will get the people who pay a little to pay a little bit more? Past research on social value orientation shows... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Podcast: Should You Consider the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program?
to learn about how to market a product and position a product. You can pick up those things on the job more slowly than you could in graduate school, it's exactly the stuff we teach in an MBA program.” And how would you convince a business View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
create their own personal leadership development plan centered on five key areas: knowing your authentic self, orienting your moral compass, understanding your motivations, building your support team, and staying grounded by integrating... View Details
- 24 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
On Pride and Community
went on a PRIDE retreat with over 100 of my fellow students and their partners. I met most of my closest HBS friends – both students and partners – at these two events (partners of all genders and sexual orientations are a big part of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech
going so far. Now that you have enrolled your first students, can you tell us how the program is going? The program is going remarkably well! We were excited to welcome our inaugural class of 11 students. We first met collectively as a group on August 3rd with an View Details
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
insights or do some digging on the background. One thing I’ve noticed is how much faster this process gets as you do it more. Jumping into unfamiliar territory and rapidly orienting myself on a problem is one of the most valuable skills a... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
nostalgic stories with team members may help them build deeper connections because nostalgia orients people toward social goals. For example, in one set of studies my colleagues and I conducted, we found that having research participants... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. One of society’s most vexing problems is the relentlessly short-term orientation that manifests itself in... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
MiCampo - Marcus Stromeyer (MBA 2024), Julian Saavedra - MiCampo is an AI-powered ranch management solution for Latin America. NEAT: Niger Meat - Sharif Nami (MBA 2024), Mouin Chreif (MBA 2024), Ali Akhdar - First export oriented abattoir... View Details
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Alumni Forums - Alumni
on their particular approaches to supporting forums, so please consult your club's forum administrator. What happens during an HBS Alumni Forum orientation session? The orientation provides the foundation... View Details
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success
For Claire Pang (MBA 2026), the orientation provided both practical information and a sense of community. “Tactically, the [pre-orientation] equipped me with knowledge, for example about section dues, which are $300 to $400. We needed to... View Details