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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
organize the team and get all those different people to go in the same direction at the same time was a wonderful learning experience. Murphy: Playing rugby with its competitive spirit and wonderful social... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
extraordinary social inventions. It emerges through the will of an individual who has to mobilize others—employees, customers, and investors--to join. The enterprise grows as it creates value, it adapts and evolves, and, when it stops... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
spatial—that would normally separate them from their employees. They do so by cultivating the art of listening to people at all levels of their organization, and by learning to talk with those people in ways that are personal, honest, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
learned that the course had nothing to do with manufacturing, it had to do with a way of life,” recalled David Arnold, MBA 1947, who went on to work for Doriot at ARD. “He made you think.” Doriot lectured his aspiring... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that the student body’s View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
accurate – April rolled around and, like clockwork, so did an internship opportunity at Cruise, a self-driving car company (hence my futuristic commute). After WesTrek, I realized I wanted to work in San Francisco at a tech startup with a View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
Board has thirty members elected at large by Harvard degree holders in annual groups of five for six-year terms. The Overseers' chief roles are to visit the graduate schools, departments, and museums of the University to ensure that the University remains true to its... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
learn from you: What is your “inner work life” like when you’re having your most creative days at work, and how does that contrast with what’s going on in your head on your least creative days? What fuels your creativity and work, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
provided a journalist lens, and Harvard Innovation Labs Senior Advisor for Social Impact Rebekah Emanuel who brought a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation, and then Mike Toffel who shifted the focus to developing sets of 4-6 episodes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
am planning to reread. A recent surprise for me was Houdini, His Life and Art...I couldn’t put it down. Houdini was just a relentless genius in so many ways. Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development. What’s on your list? I enjoy books that... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot of storytelling in my talks,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. It will provide View Details
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How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting
commitment to diversity and equity is not only built into policy and action,” Eliason noted, “it is built into culture and climate.” She recommends that organizations do culture and climate surveys every 3 to 5 years and regularly conduct focus groups with staff. Key... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for both theory and practice are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if equity is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists formulate and think about their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and economic conditions in recent years have changed dramatically and altered the way... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso