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02 Aug 2023

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Dimitri Dadiomov (MBA 2015), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

learn German work practices. The fewest "us and them" issues occurred among a team of 24 members split between Germany and India who were working on a data standardization project. Neither the Germans nor the Indians saw... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Adrian Obleton

like writing enough to go to law school. What is your favorite childhood memory? I remember learning how to do math when I was 5 or 6 by playing Monopoly with my dad. It's a controversial game, but it’s still my favorite to this day... View Details

2024
Working Paper

The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

By: Nicholas G. Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, David Holtz and Rembrand Koning

Scalable and low-cost AI assistance has the potential to improve firm decision-making and economic performance. However, running a business involves a myriad of open-ended problems, making it difficult to know whether recent AI advances can help business owners make... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Performance Improvement; Small Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Kenya

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26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

the body from fighting you, you want to make sure the body can’t recognize you, and can’t be trained against you.” Harvard introduced Zutshi to dendritic cells. She first learned about them through bioengineering courses with Samir... View Details

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

start-up investments through the Angels network. HBS Clubs & SIGs Access Tailored Support for Your Success Leverage a range of HBS resources designed to support your ongoing success. From career development to learning opportunities,... View Details

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Academics - Health Care

student-initiated learning enables students to choose their faculty sponsor and the organization where they will work. Recent projects include: Quantifying the size of the medical tourism market Identifying applications for multiplex... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

calendar (once a quarter or annually), you get a much more accurate reflection of current conditions. Any time analysts learn about a significant shift in the costs of resources supplied or the practical capacity of those resources, or... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

understandable and they are humble listeners. Second, these CEOs have institutionalized a governance and learning system, which enables truth to speak to power at the corporate and unit levels through periodic, systematic, well-structured... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

2023
Article

Verifiable Feature Attributions: A Bridge between Post Hoc Explainability and Inherent Interpretability

By: Usha Bhalla, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju

With the increased deployment of machine learning models in various real-world applications, researchers and practitioners alike have emphasized the need for explanations of model behaviour. To this end, two broad strategies have been outlined in prior literature to... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods

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Tata Hall | About

dedicated to Executive Education in the northeast corner of the HBS campus. Residential life is an integral aspect of the learning experience at HBS, and Tata Hall’s layout and amenities encourage intellectual and social engagement both... View Details

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Client Success Stories

Long-Lasting Impact The world's top companies and organizations turn to Harvard Business School for assistance with challenges that demand a new level of skill, leadership, and inspiration from their executives. We help many different types of organizations create... View Details

26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

companies more sustainably manage their water resources. Like all her favorite projects, it has the potential to help people on Earth using technology designed for space. “I’m using my interest in space technology by assessing how satellite imagery could combine with... View Details

02 Mar 2012
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26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: i-ai] Related Reading 6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery Distressed Employees? Try Resilience... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Dec 2023
News

New Leadership Role and Structure

MESSAGE FROM ANGELA CRISPI AND DEAN SRIKANT DATAR To: HBS Faculty and Staff From: Angela Crispi and Srikant Datar Re: New Leadership Role and Structure We are delighted to announce that effective January 1, 2024, Jana Kierstead will become Executive Director, MBA and... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

In randomized control trials all over the world, instead of giving access to a loan, a one-time cash grant was found to have transformative impacts on livelihoods and businesses six months, one year, five years, 10 years later. We learned... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

David A. Thomas

David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He recently served as a... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; consulting; consumer products; education industry; financial services; media

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

Outside the classroom, Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra’s abiding interest is war and peace–how wars begin and end, how they could have been avoided, and what lessons can be learned from them. Along with studying wars,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

07 Aug 2023

HBS Information Session in New York City

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions... View Details

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