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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change From business as usual to business as vital Accelerating Climate Solutions What are the best practices for integrating climate change into every function of a business? Effects of Climate Change As we increasingly View Details

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Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

through-line to the conversation, with anchors and prompts to support discussions, and tools to support next steps Participant experience “I loved the opportunity to engage with other socially minded classmates and alums (with the amazing... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

Nineteen years ago, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill wrote the first edition of her book Becoming a Manager, detailing the experiences of several first-year supervisors who were making the daunting transition from star... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Feb 2023
News

Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

19 states that provide the best care anywhere to over 132,000 older adults. His commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion makes Oak Street Health a great place to work for teammates and enables an unmatched experience for patients.”... View Details

September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States

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Kanwulia Gwam

The grass field in front of my apartment building became whatever us neighborhood kids needed it to be. On this cool summer afternoon, it became my laboratory, and the experiment was my identity. I was in fourth grade, and I’d spent the... View Details

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

five hours of removal. The t-shirts were frozen to preserve the scent and thawed two hours before the stress test experiment began. (Pro tip: Freezing an item of clothing will preserve the wearer’s scent for up to two years, according to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

in the role. How will your previous experience or background enhance your ability to excel in this position? How does this position specifically fit with your long-term career goals and/or contribute to your career development? SUPPORTING... View Details

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

on behalf of the dorms — I felt the experience was designed to remove worry about some of the minutiae and spend more time enjoying the experience. For instance, you get trash picked up daily and a full cleaning weekly. Any maintenance... View Details

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

educating leaders who make a difference in the world HBS Online Founding Donors Deepening the School’s impact and broadening its reach by delivering transformational educational experiences to learners worldwide A Campus Built on... View Details

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Ahmed Alimi

What's a natural childhood ambition? To be an astronaut? A firefighter? For Ahmed Alimi, the attraction was to number crunching. "My parents tell me that as a child, I said I wanted to be an accountant when I grew up. I loved math." In fact, Ahmed became... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

2007
Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career

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30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

program, you’re likely someone who likes to plan and have a sense of what their future looks like. Being admitted to 2+2 means that you have an incredible graduate school experience waiting for you down the line and the opportunity to... View Details

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

outsourcing is still an established practice, companies have gained experience and can now do much more for themselves that they have looked to outsiders to do in the past. Managers know more about IT, more about the business and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

straining experience to place all hope in a clinical trial when facing limited options. Throughout my time working in biotech, I came to realize that having empathy, on a personal level, is the first step to achieving health care reform.... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Blog Post

An Average Day at HBS

Prospective students often visit campus to learn more about life at HBS. They’re curious about things like case method, housing, and the section experience. But once you get on campus, what is the day-to-day student experience like? We... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)

I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school experience. Coaching debate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; whistle blower; Facebook; leadership; social media

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

experience and perspective, these leaders will influence business and society for decades to come. Now global leaders such as General Motors’s Mary Barra, Merck’s Ken Frazier, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff must now... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

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