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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

society and our planet. Probable Futures offers frameworks, tools, and storytelling to help people understand, prepare for, and choose between the futures that the climate offers us. Glendon is also a pro bono consultant to many... View Details

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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

the process side of the class discussion. This includes planning for the structure, sequencing, and timing of discussion segments ("pastures"), as well as the types of questions, organization of boards, transitions, and other discussion leadership elements that View Details

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The John H. McArthur Fellowship for Canadian MBA Students - Global

Canadian students have always been an important part of HBS's diversity. This fellowship helps insure that academically qualified students can afford to attend HBS. The John H. McArthur Canadian Fellowship is named in honor of the former... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Service is a branch of the U.S Department of the Interior, responsible for preserving natural and cultural resources for the American people. Rhea supported the Submerged Resources Center, the NPS’ national dive program. This team helps... View Details

06 Oct 2023
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Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

their Inclusion course this year. “The School is looking for answers to the question of how we can best incorporate this important set of topics around inclusion even more deeply into the MBA curriculum,” said Beshears. “The SIP is going to be used as a laboratory... View Details

01 Feb 2021
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Choosing the Right Student Loan

to successfully pay off debt in a relatively short time frame. If you’re planning to go into a field that does not offer that level of salary, there are several options available to you to help you manage your debt. For example,... View Details

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Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Rising Leaders Forum is HBS’s premier offering for social impact focused students. Through carefully tailored content and small peer group discussion, our highest potential change leaders are engaged in reflection, conversations, tools, and networking to View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

provides access to the resources, programming, and community necessary to help startups succeed. Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is contributing to a thriving start-up community in Allston by seeding the campus... View Details

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

results. Additional study on the phrasing or engineering of AI prompts could also help improve results, says Brand, who along with Ngwe is exploring uses for GPT in market research for business units within Microsoft. The researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Dec 2005
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Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

enough about the general practice of management that they can communicate effectively with the management team. A lawyer who can't read an income statement or understand the rudiments of strategy is far less able to help the non-lawyers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Finding Talent Opportunities

experience helped him approach challenges with a broader, more strategic mindset, shaping his leadership journey across roles. Today, he applies these insights to drive meaningful transformation and lasting impact in his work. Finding... View Details

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

the way to help students build their capabilities in framing arguments, listening attentively, articulating responses, and exercising judgment. In a course introduction, for example, instructors may invite students to raise sensitive... View Details

29 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It

Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira

17 Dec 2020
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Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

role came down to a focus on communication, transparency, and a confidence in her ability to adapt and recover. “This case was an opportunity to document something unique,” says Prince, whose successful leadership yielded The Farm an extended contract. She has moved on... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Discover Upcoming HBS Executive Education Programs

As a business leader, you are often confronted with a wide range of opportunities and challenges. You're expected to bring new ideas to the table, find solutions to existing and arising obstacles, and stay in the forefront of innovative thinking. Harvard Business... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

does it take to find a reliable vaccine? What can you tell ... Could you just help me understand what does it take? Frazier: Well, first of all, it takes a lot of time. I think the record for the fastest vaccine ever brought to market was... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

01 Dec 2006
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How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

maintains that differences in labor efficiency justify large differences in labor costs. By extension, this argument minimizes the long-term threat of outsourcing to developed economies. If this is true, it may help explain why the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

20 Apr 2015
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The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

executives who helped compensate for their own weaknesses. Gates, for example, knew his strength was not in operations, so he brought in an outside COO to run the day-to-day operations. In the same vein, Jobs nearly destroyed Apple in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

August 2018 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and he transformed my career. This... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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