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Courses - Entrepreneurship

under conditions of profound uncertainty and do so while balancing great risks against potentially attractive rewards. Moreover, they operate without the benefit of well-defined processes for making such choices and with few resources. As a consequence, entrepreneurial... View Details

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

enter their chosen field of business. It is Bennett’s hope that this fellowship will offer a similar opportunity to talented students who, without financial aid, would be unable to attend HBS. Benvenuti (MBA 1985, MBA 1986) Family... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

as well as a hiring decision based on a candidate’s performance during a university job interview. In a final study, the researchers allowed participants to generate their own journey lines by watching a trailer for a movie not yet in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Case 810-073 Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

have rejected Microsoft's claims, Microsoft and Google settled out of court regarding Google's hiring Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee to head Google China. And the following year, Microsoft evangelist Vic Gundotra decided to take a year off after accepting a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2019
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How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and fellow researchers compared the outcomes of flexible work arrangements at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The team found that employees with liberal “work from anywhere” arrangements, similar to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

ears around the world is critical” Nearly 20 years later and in its sixth edition, Bartlett's case-filled textbook (which he describes as a "continuing passion") offers the opportunity to reexamine the ever-changing nature of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

a few main strategies. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist,” Ramarajan says. It can be a challenge, no more so than in the media, and the paper offers lessons for building a morally grounded career in any... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Strategy - Faculty & Research

offering solutions in payments, credit, wealth management, and business payment processing. Ualá’s hypergrowth was driven by a record-breaking $350 million funding round in 2021, enabling it to enter new markets, secure banking licenses,... View Details

14 Jun 2023
Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

organization to accomplish goals or meet targets. Different roles require different development Companies can help promising managers and executives become BTLs and LTLs by broadening their experiences, but in different ways. Big-T development should expose leaders to... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

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Standards of Conduct - Recruiting

Students Organizations are asked to keep job offers open for a minimum of two weeks from the date the student receives the written offer. For the Class of 2026 First-Year Students Tuesday, October 8, 2024:... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

recording employees’ creative work affected the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. We found that, on average, this system did not have a significant effect on any outcomes. However, it significantly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and Ernest Hemingway. The primary teaching objective of the case is to help students formulate an action plan. It also offers insights on strategy execution, stepping into a new leadership... View Details

15 Feb 2022
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When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

orchestra as a soloist just within reach. But suddenly, his performance started to worsen. No amount of practice or specialized training helped. In fact, the harder he raged against his decline, the faster it inevitably came. He took a View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

07 Jul 2022
HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

offer the employees a couple of weeks of severance and help finding jobs and references to future employers,” says Eisenmann. Failed founders also owe investors an explanation of what went wrong. “This can... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them? Re: Julian J. Zlatev 04 Oct 2024 Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged by Rachel Layne More Working Knowledge Articles Harvard Business Publishing April 2014 Article 15 Rules for Negotiating a... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

inadequacy, in my first week on the job Clayton received a letter from the Nobel Prize Committee asking him to recommend someone for the Nobel Prize in Economics. He handed me the letter, asked me to write a draft, and said, “If you’d... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Skydeck - Alumni

Programs & Events Skydeck Skydeck is the HBS alumni podcast series that features interviews with HBS alumni from across the world of business, sharing lessons learned and their own life experiences. Subscribe on iTunes , Spotify , or access individual episodes below.... View Details

February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
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Jieliang Phone Home! (A)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria

At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China

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