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- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is originally from Charlotte, NC and... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
everything from working out at the gym to turning off the lights at home. Yet, despite the brainpower devoted to devising creative rewards and fine-tuning offerings, employees don’t always buy in. “All this money and time and smart people... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
the schoolyard.) He traces his disciplined approach to the financial world and some of his financial smarts as a hedge fund guru back to chess. And he’s quite certain it was chess that brought his grades from a D average in high school to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
reach net zero and make smart decisions that benefit the health of the planet. Bobby's role prior to HBS was a Private Equity Associate at Macquarie Group. View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams
making a simulated climb up Mount Everest. ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City How do you organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? Related Research Papers Research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
hospitals. The e-commerce giant JD developed a drone program to drop parcels and to spray disinfectant. Smart helmets can identify anyone with fever within a five-meter radius. For other businesses, especially those where digital and... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
also determined that other African American women would be able to rise above their circumstances. Walker's name change from Sarah Breedlove to something both catchier and more dignified was a smart career move that reflected her style... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
too, and then their followers will chime in, and so on. Smart companies are monitoring Twitter for complaints and asking, how can we quickly intervene to solve the problem? How can we reach the person in distress before this becomes an... View Details
- Web
General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected by Strategy+Business as one of the Best Business Books on Talent and Leadership in 2020. Rosabeth M. Kanter : Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the... View Details
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
key financial levers that drive financial performance, examine how the capital markets work, develop a toolkit for making smart financial decisions, and gain the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to both internal and... View Details
- Web
Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Competition by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann Harvard Business Review , November 2014 We stand at the brink of a new era of competition. Smart connect products are forcing companies to rethink nearly everything they do, from... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
inside a firm. With effort, some people did develop an innovative vision of what changes would be needed and a smart strategy of how to make those changes. Then, in trying to explain this to others and achieve sufficient buy-in, the... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- Web
Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
Cycles (temperature-based), Clue (cycle tracking) and others in the fertility space pursuing contraceptive indications Other startups are looking to increase access to current methods ( Cadence Health * bringing hormonal birth control over the counter), improve... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
well you buy and integrate but also, and more importantly, on how smart your bet about industry boundaries is. As with M&A as R&D, this approach is hard to analyze rigorously. In this case, though, this difficulty is not because... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
jobs, who are 'the general manager in the middle' who have the incredibly difficult job of managing up, down, and across the organization. "The cases are designed to get smart people to see different things in the same situation. In... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
uncovered a problem that prevented greater racial equity gains: Black hosts were 41 percent less likely than white hosts to take advantage of the smart pricing application. And for the Black hosts who didn’t use it during the study... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
Source: peterhowell Big data has shifted the ground under every business, enough so that many managers are waking up to the fact that they are already behind in developing a smart data strategy. Data has always been important in business,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Ahmed Alimi
Ahmed. "In Nigeria where I studied before now, the teaching method is lecture-based. The case method is very different for me—but it's a confidence-building process. Whatever you say, you have to be ready to back it up with evidence, because you have 95 View Details