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14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

discussing (not deciding) the direction of the company, being educated about what the company does or about important skills like reading financial statements. It is also a good forum to get updated on changes in the family such as... View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

planning, data collection and analysis, and reporting and visualization of outcomes. RCS also offers training workshops on research tools and practices, and provides access to sophisticated tools like the Odyssey compute cluster or the... View Details

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

the work of winning deals on their own. By letting go of micromanaging every transaction, a manager’s time is freed up to immerse themselves in other duties, like developing a staff they can delegate more responsibility to and making... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

change the world for the better,” he said. Jobs’ passion and his ability to communicate it saved the company. Business leaders like Jobs who express passion in the workplace can reap big benefits, earning enough admiration and support... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

likely to implement MV proposals after industry-peer firms implement a similar proposal. Finally, proposals aimed at removing anti-takeover measures or instituting certain shareholder rights are more likely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

their artificial reality (AR) annotation products on mobile phones. AT&T, Cisco, and Zoom have enhanced their network capabilities for increased demand in bandwidth. In addition, numerous small businesses like restaurants and home... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of becoming an inventor like Thomas... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

needed minority officers who were college graduates to lead their diverse enlistees," Norton says. "Statements like these help to reframe the general notion of why developing effective strategies for managing diversity is crucial for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

experience are tough or that engineering students like to do numbers. Suggestion: Drawing on student experiences can greatly enrich the class discussion, as long as instructors avoid making generalizations about students based on those... View Details

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

small rock together.” WH Kolkman added: “We also need to give more attention to mitigation, which will be greatly helped by cooperation, resilience, innovation, pragmatism and speed. In a crisis like this, perfection is the enemy of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

iStock Thinking about the fast-approaching era of artificial intelligence, employers rejoice in the increases to productivity such tools could bring, while workers are more likely to calculate the time left before R2-D2 takes over their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

04 Jan 2024
News

Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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Events - Business History

relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While state-business ties in Indonesia and China created dangerous dynamics like capital flight, fraud, and financial crisis, Malaysia's... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Specialization. With our past participant discount, you'll receive 30% off your second and third courses for a total savings of $1,110 . Here are three learning pathways we recommend based on your career goals and stage. Strategy Foundations: For those newer to... View Details

13 Jul 2023
News

The Network Effect

as the Agios sale. When he saw the news, he contacted Model. They’d fallen out of touch during the pandemic, and this seemed like a good reason to reconnect. The royalty payments included in the sale were attractive to Sagard, and Mathur... View Details

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

02 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience

gain a comprehensive insight into the HBS experience. This program fulfilled my aspirations as it allows undergraduates, no matter their background, a chance to gain a deep understanding of what it is like being a Harvard MBA student.... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or launching startups and launching... View Details

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