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Program Requirements - Doctoral

Business Economics Program Requirements Each candidate’s program of study will be developed in consultation with the faculty chair of the Policy and Admissions Committee. The normal program is outlined below. Advising The Policy and... View Details

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

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05 Sep 2023
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Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

teams appeared to have more, not fewer, errors. “All these years later, I can still remember viscerally how it felt,” says Edmondson, who recounts the experience in her new book about the importance of failure, Right Kind of Wrong: The View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53894 forthcoming Human Resource Management Review Developing Strategic Human Resource Theory and Making a Difference: An Action Science Perspective By: Beer, Michael Abstract—No abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

experiences were.” Recover, explore, practice To analyze the data, DiDonna’s fellow researchers, University of Notre Dame Professor Matt Bloom and Kira Schabram, assistant professor at the University of Washington, employed techniques from social View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

coauthor of the new book Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, for an intimate, powerful conversation that touches on: the mistake people make in thinking that money, power, and fame will bring them happiness;... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate risk aversion with lower profits. We find, however, that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong." We've seen how stress can alter behavior. It's jarring for managers to see View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2018
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How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

procedure was the discovery and use of frequent, short action-assessment cycles. In normal drilling operations, precision was measured after a hole was completely drilled. Here, in contrast, drillers realized that to hit the refuge, they... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Unbiased Samples The Normal Distribution Confidence Intervals Amazon's Inventory Sampling Featured Exercises Calculate sample statistics and apply the properties of the normal distribution Calculate... View Details

30 May 2024
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How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

committed $10 million from their family foundation to endow the new program. The gift is in honor of Tom’s 30th and 35th HBS Reunions. A collaboration between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

global economy. What are the barriers to distributing, to producing, to manufacturing, reliable vaccines to the world? Frazier: So you're actually touching on something that is in my view, a bigger challenge than the science challenge of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

"the role of industry is to sense a deep human need, then bring science and technology to bear on filling that need." 9 As automobile ownership increased exponentially through the 1920s, Land aligned his research of polarizers with what... View Details

11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus on fighting fires and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2020
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How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

Government; Hanne Collins, a PhD student at Harvard Business School; and Frances Chen, associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. The paper was published in the September 2020 edition of the journal Science... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Arthur C. Brooks : Elected as a Member of the American Academy of Sciences & Letters in 2024. Leemore S. Dafny : Elected to the National Academy of... View Details

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Jordan Amadio

Jordan Amadio is a scientist at heart. After studying theoretical physics as an undergraduate, Jordan entered Harvard Medical School as one of just 30 participants in the Health Sciences and Technology program. A joint effort by Harvard... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

everyone, but we quickly come to regard them as normal and to appreciate the benefits that they make possible. “Sensible business people value risk reduction and predictability” Business has a critical role to play here, as the source of... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

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