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01 Mar 2021
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What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

relationships associated with remote work made the middle manager’s role less necessary? Can much of what middle managers do be replaced by artificial intelligence? Can companies that compete View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November 2024
Case

Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais

The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates

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29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

just don't know who has the kind of upbringing or life experience that would be relevant to identifying the issues you need to anticipate and plan for.” Wu adds: “It means both... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Multi-Sided Platforms

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright

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Donor Societies - Alumni

Giving Donor Societies Giving Donor Societies Leadership Giving Recognizing donor generosity and foresight Our donor societies celebrate the commitment of alumni and friends to ensuring View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Preparing Global Leaders

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

3,000 pages of transcripts, it remains as the largest in-depth study of leaders ever conducted, based on first-person interviews. Having examined... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence and organizational awareness, I was assigned... View Details

11 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

open, always. But that's not the case. In fact, one of the examples in our paper shows that a firm is more likely to use a proprietary business model when it faces competition... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War

The resources below have been selected by Baker librarians to help members of our community learn more about the conflict. The list... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

pairs and filled out worksheets about their strengths and weaknesses as salespeople. They then compared notes and talked through how they could improve. In the other, pairs of employees received a financial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship, digital media and on the future of the Internet. Andrew Goldfarb (MBA 1993), Globespan Capital Partners Andy is Executive Managing Director View Details

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

does cultural awareness lead to more effective innovation? Based on previous studies, the researchers focused on the role of trust in that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

heart of Silicon Valley. His landmark 2003 gift to establish the Rock Center funded not only a home base for entrepreneurship faculty, but also a lasting foundation for... View Details

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Interviewing - Alumni

your interview preparation. Read the Full Post Past Program Resources Interviewing Matters Brit Dewey Former HBS MBA Admissions Director Are you preparing for an interview? Or do you have one on the horizon?... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Why We Do What We Do: Reclaiming Mission, Data, and Impact in Nonprofit Work 01 Jul 2025 Courtnee Biscardi is Executive Vice... View Details

2015
Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union