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- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS
an IFC for just about everyone. 4. Faculty Design IFCs around Their Research Interests Faculty provide students with contextual knowledge about the IFC location and topic area throughout the IFC experience.... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
gaining ground because we're experiencing a contextual change. Given the profound challenges we face as a global society and the challenges we confront as an institution, it's not just that we don't have solutions: We increasingly see... View Details
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Events - Business History
pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Nov 3 03 Nov 2025 Business History Seminar Andrea Lluch (CONICET/Universidad de los Andes), "Global South: View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
Develop a direction for your division, unit, or organization, informed by the external context in which your organization operates. Highlights Leader as Beacon Understanding the Context Developing Contextual Intelligence Show Hide Details... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
of this sort could be a valuable addition to many if not most companies in at least five ways: as a source of knowledge and expertise, as a sounding board and constructive critic, as a driver of accountability, as a stimulus for... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
you’re not accustomed to reflection, it might feel weird, like you’re wasting time. But you would be wrong. In fact, reflection helps leaders make better decisions faster. Leaders must constantly assess a dynamic environment to gain View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
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Industry Information - Alumni
digests, which are offered for several major global regions. CBRE Hotels Knowledge Center Provider of intelligence fort hotel investors, developers, and financiers. CBRE Knowledge Center includes posts... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
—End-users have no mechanism enabling effective procurement through uniform templates, which can be contextually linked to government authorized schedules. This often causes a nonsensical lengthening of the purchasing cycle whereby most... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
about government policies and consumer attitudes about the CEO’s company. We conclude by providing a roadmap for future research on this emerging phenomenon. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50763 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School
Courses (IFC). Good investing and corporate management requires contextual knowledge and an ability to differentiate among opportunities worldwide – I now feel much more prepared to operate with a truly... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
industry life cycle? Tony Mayo: My research with Nitin Nohria on entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders of the 20th century began with the creation of the Great American Business Leaders database about six years ago. In building the database, we explored the interaction... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
or Europe. In fact, an herbal medicine patent was 85 percent more likely to be authored by someone with an Indian surname than was a similar control patent. "It's a great example of first-generation immigrants carrying very View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
because everything around it changes how it will work. There's nothing wrong with the tools we have at our disposal, but their application requires contextual intelligence: the ability to understand the limits of our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
studied at Harvard Business School. Credit: Bartosz Hadyniak For perspectives on what has been learned so far, HBS Working Knowledge conducted an email interview with four of the key drivers of CEM: Project coordinators Geoffrey Jones,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
performance dimensions, including both lower cost and increased differentiation. Successful organizations achieve the latter in 2 ways; first, by leveraging a partner's superior capabilities and skills, and second, by accessing a partner's unique View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
and "In re CNX Gas" and provides commentary on current developments, such as "Say on Pay," proxy access and the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. A new chapter on executive compensation appears. The fourth edition provides additional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
information provision strategies to encourage knowledge transfer within the organization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-085.pdf Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace