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Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni
a board for the first time or to explore expanding your impact through continued board service? HBS is eager to help through our Career Coaching Program and the resources provided by the Social Enterprise Initiative. Career Coaches:... View Details
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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About
Activities Our eighteen Global Research Centers & Offices help to build on our legacy of global engagement by supporting our faculty’s international research, administering academic programming in their regions, providing advice to MBA... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
contrast, equally powerful research suggests that clustering can undermine performance by fostering an unproductive imbalance between exploration and exploitation, even for simple tasks." Thus, Bernstein, Shore, and Lazer set out to figure out how collaborating... View Details
- 23 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School
I was doing, so I decided to make a change. I applied to HBS.” She arrived at HBS, thinking that it might help her figure out the next step in a finance career. She was also interested in exploring social impact investing. HBS View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
company that is vertically integrated to some extent into the content that runs on their devices. This can help in their current fight to establish the Blu-ray DVD standard, but has been a significant hindrance, because of internal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
during COVID. She also led the team’s health equity strategy and founded its first DEI program, in partnership with senior hospital leadership. She said, “the Goldsmith Fellowship will be instrumental in helping me achieve my goal of... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
Business School curriculum among those interested in studying business in 1908. I should know. I was invited to join the HBS faculty not to teach marketing, service management, or general management, among my later teaching assignments, but to View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
single-channel business.” Among Christou’s first steps was to establish a data system that would help the company better understand its customers by tracking up to 80 percent of transactions. That led company leadership to ask how regular... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
community and helping women feel confident—because when you feel good, there’s nothing you can’t do.” Carpe diem: “I don’t have a bucket list. In New Orleans we say, ‘I’m saving my groceries,’ meaning putting them away for later. I’m all... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
supportive this community is. This is probably one of the safest, most supporting communities I've ever existed in. There are a lot of different things that help to facilitate collaboration. Academically, you have a big MBA class, but... View Details
- 09 Apr 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses
carefully, can open a box full of unintended consequences that ultimately harm rather than help the organization. The financial crisis of 2008 was partially fueled by origination bonuses paid to bank loan officers who were incented to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
"Is it better to be loved or feared?" Machiavelli asked. At Harvard Business School, Professor Scott Snook uses this classic quote to help students become more effective leaders. Using two of the most successful college... View Details
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
to him for their education. “What an opportunity it is,” he reflected in an interview, “to have the privilege of being a teacher, the greatest of all vocations, for it keeps us anchored in the world of youth, ideas, and research. It enables those of us who follow this... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
requires that key stakeholders join together into one or more groups: A shareholders' council and an annual meeting of the owners to serve the governance needs of the owners. A board of directors to serve the governance needs of the business and owners. A family... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
to give them a better chance of surviving. In contrast, industries with increasing customer demand—grocery stores, online entertainment, teleconference providers, and their suppliers—need to adjust to this directional reality at a slower, yet definitely needed, pace to... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
Gibson. To help us, we brought on stage a group of performers from Second City, the Chicago-based company that established the first ongoing improvisational theater troupe. Second City is the place where Tina Fey, Bill Murray, and many... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
A Third Act for Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Widely credited with pioneering the concept of the restaurant industry’s $80 billion “fast casual” segment, Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) started small: a 400-square-foot business in Boston’s Downtown Crossing that sold cookies. From those humble but tasty beginnings, Shaich... View Details
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
help providers and other players in the health care system leverage information technology to help them achieve two key aims: restructuring care delivery and measuring results . Establish common data... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code
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Research Overview
Globalization and innovation are two key forces that will shape individual and business success in the 21st century. To thrive, individuals and organizations must collaborate effectively across cultural lines to solve pressing business problems and develop new products... View Details