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FAQs - Alumni

listed on your class page at reunions.hbs.edu . HBS fully subsidizes the on-campus reunion program, including faculty presentations and meals—there is no charge to attend the daytime campus program. Registration fees cover activities... View Details

13 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

paths for smaller sellers competing on online marketplaces. “For a long time, consumers have been asking things like, 'When can I find a coat that I like by simply snapping a picture of somebody wearing that coat on the subway?’” explains... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

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MBA Experience - Health Care

activities 223 Pairs were matched as part of the Student-Alumni Mentor Program in 2018 135 Joint Degree Students interested in Health Care Health Care Club Join the Health Care Club (HCC). The HCC is a student-led group and one of the... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

competing in today's demanding environment, the focus of our work has broadened to include the multiple activities comprising a firm's "operating core": the multi-function, multi-firm system that includes basic research, design,... View Details

14 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

organization) and transparent (nothing is hidden—neither the process nor what senior management learned and plans to change). Forlenza says the SFP he led at Becton Dickinson in 2010: Encouraged open communication as employees provided... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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Global

online programs are focused on business fundamentals and strategy for a worldwide audience. Our faculty have developed these online programs, leveraging the case method learning model, and focusing on active... View Details

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Crossover Into Business

better prepared for business activities during and after their active sports careers, the Crossover Into Business program matches athletes with a pair of Harvard Business School’s MBA student mentors. These... View Details

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South Asia - Global

deep learning occurs when students are actively engaged in the classroom. Participants appreciated the opportunity to learn from HBS faculty. February 2025 Event Immersion for... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

learn that the store was a real dog." The rent for this "dog" was 5 percent of sales. This sounded fine to Walton; but after signing the lease, he discovered that this "was the highest rent anybody'd ever heard of in... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

25 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Importance of Teaming

happens: Through teaming. Products and services are provided to customers by interdependent people and processes. Crucial learning activities must take place, within those smaller, focused units of action,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson

16 Jul 2018
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Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

multiple demands—a job, a family, a household—you see that it can work. Everything we know about role models and social learning suggests that children are actively picking up life skills from the adults... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Aug 2020
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What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

the realism to let go of intrinsic survival mechanisms and the deep-seated faith to learn the new ones. Applying survival psychology to the current crisis may be extending the mandate of the discipline—the business leaders who are our... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

the United States. In that work, I learned that company management had known about the dangers of asbestos since the 1930s but had actively suppressed information linking it to cancer to protect the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

1760s, but become stronger over time and peak in the 1780s. Combining the RD model with variation in local weather conditions during the 1780s, we document that droughts amplify the effects of the salt tax on revolts by increasing wheat prices and View Details

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Health Care Initiative - Health Care

and innovation, and to disseminate these works. Alumni Opportunities to participate in health care activities at the school, and through the ongoing development of the alumni health care network Executive Education Programs that... View Details

31 Jan 2022
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Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

outside the company. They’re empowered to question all aspects of the business and suggest new ways to create value for customers. People who thrive in these conditions are actively curious about everything happening around them; they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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