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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Florida. Mr. Dauten has been active with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (past board chair), School District #29 (past president), Ascension Church (past president), and the Metropolitan Planning Council (past board nember). He is... View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Earn by: completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 7 Modules, 40-50 Hours Download full syllabus This course features access to an AI course View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Hamilton Hall | About

80 percent of MBA students live on campus, taking advantage of the proximity to classes, extensive academic and social resources, and opportunities for peer learning. About the Name Hamilton Hall is one of seven buildings named for... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

similar to Aldrich. "One of our goals is to have symmetry in the new quad we're creating with this building," explains Angela Quinn Crispi (MBA '90), HBS assistant dean and chief planning officer. "Not only will the Spangler Center be... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology... View Details

14 Oct 2021
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Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

in the office. Keep strict in-office policies to a minimum and only for those tasks for which face time is needed. For example, in one workplace, assistants were asked to come into work on certain days (M-W), but senior staff were still... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

rather than vilified. What Have They Done By Benjamin Campbell (MBA 1992) Teutoburg Forest Press Set in 2023, What Have They Done is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Nothing They Won’t Do. It’s five years later, and Putin and Iran are driving the world toward war... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

assistant bot, in beta release, to facilitate your successful completion of the course. 7-8 hrs Module 1 Managing the Tensions of Strategy Execution Understand the various tensions managers face as they execute strategy and implement a... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details

26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

reviews helps consumers choose cleaner restaurants, which is a pretty robust finding." Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Chiara Farronato and Georgios Zervas, an associate professor at Boston University, used machine learning to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

08 Oct 2018
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Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

were recently published in How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons, co-written by Zoë B. Cullen, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia, an View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running bioMérieux, a diagnostics company with... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Teele Hall | About

to receive MBAs (1960). Teele, who received the second doctoral degree awarded by HBS in 1933, spent two years in business before joining the HBS faculty in 1935 as an assistant professor of marketing. He became a full professor in 1944.... View Details

09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

11 Dec 2019
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A Righteous Path

the New York–based nonprofit, which was founded five years ago to provide legal assistance to young refugees who arrive in the United States alone. Launched with a single full-time employee, the organization had grown to 13 when Leimsider... View Details

Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

01 Mar 2021
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How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

Systemic racism and discrimination in small communities can undermine a country’s ability to defend itself during conflicts, creating a national security risk, new research says. Marco Tabellini, an assistant professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Jul 2017
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People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

hold six. No matter that your favorite craft beer store permits you buy bottles one at a time. Chances are you’d still buy six, just to fill all six spaces in the box. “People really don’t like to leave things incomplete,” says Kate Barasz, an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 May 2016
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Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

actions gradually become less clear than other memories—a phenomenon the authors of the paper call “unethical amnesia.” Moreover, forgetting wrongdoings of the past makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. “We are social beings,... View Details