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- 03 Aug 2021
Life at HBS Chat: Club Conferences
Life At HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. These current students will share their backgrounds and talk about how they have cultivated their personal and... View Details
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Kim Chen
delivered on this both in and out of the classroom. I also valued the opportunity for personal development through introspection, discussion, and experience. Various programs offered through the Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details
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Daniel Schachne
Brazilian sponsors wanted to know about my experience at the NBA." But his enviable experience also inspires another frequent question: "Why do you want to get an MBA?" Making a full-time commitment to personal growth... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- Web
Security & Privacy | Information Technology
risk. Policies & Governance Policies and guidelines are in place at Harvard Business School and across Harvard to help the community ensure compliance and understanding of how to use technology and devices effectively and securely. View Details
- August 2011
- Supplement
Career at a Crossroad: Packing Up
By: Noam Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Akhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa Rao, his fiancee, is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Technology
Wasserman, Noam, and Lisa Brem. "Career at a Crossroad: Packing Up." Harvard Business School Supplement 812-013, August 2011.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16645, December 2010.
- September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Compilation
PEARL Project, The: Work Patterns at Ditto (A)
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Describes life on a product development team, the behaviors that are rewarded, and the difficult tradeoffs members often have to make as a result. This is a rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Time Management; Groups and Teams; Work-Life Balance; Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology Industry
Perlow, Leslie A. "PEARL Project, The: Work Patterns at Ditto (A)." Harvard Business School Compilation 404-055, September 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- Career Coach
Matt Spielman
Teacher’s College and Columbia Business School. As a former nationally recognized collegiate athlete, marathon runner and certified personal trainer, Matt places great importance on taking a holistic approach to empower and enable his... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
Life at HBS Chat: Real Estate Club
Life At HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. These current students will share their backgrounds and talk about how they have cultivated their personal and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2020
Life at HBS Chat Series: MBA Students in the MoMBA Club
This Life at HBS Chat is a unique opportunity to hear straight from current MBA students who are also moms. These women will share their backgrounds, talk about how they manage motherhood while earning their MBA’s, and how they are cultivating their View Details
James J. Hill
Hill, a railroad builder and entrepreneur, was a pioneer of the Northwest in a variety of ways. He located his roads and terminal facilities in potentially productive areas, he constructed them for economical operation at minimum cost (under his View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- Web
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
evaluate and use digital tools and technologies (like AI and personal productivity trackers) to enhance personal productivity and employee motivation Course Content and Organization The course takes an... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
Karae Lisle (MBA 1998) has watched firsthand the struggles of the homeless, with a close family member living on the streets and in shelters in Florida, on and off, for years. His personal struggles limited the family’s ability to help,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- May 2025
- Case
RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Sarah Mehta
Set in 2024, this case explores the Lifetime Income Strategy (LIS), a novel retirement product launched by aerospace and defense company RTX in 2012. Aiming to embed the security of a traditional pension within a 401(k) plan, the LIS allowed participants to secure a... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Compensation and Benefits; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Labor; Retirement; Society; Adoption; Personal Finance; Aerospace Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Virginia
Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Sarah Mehta. "RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement." Harvard Business School Case 225-016, May 2025.
- Web
Capital IQ | Baker Library
Capital IQ Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Includes S&P RatingsDirect. Read More Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and... View Details
- March 10, 2025
- Article
How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise
By: Joseph Fuller, Matt Sigelman and Michael Fenlon
In the near future, gen AI is likely to affect some 50 million jobs, automating away elements of some jobs and augmenting workers’ abilities in others. The extent of those changes will compel companies to reshape their organizational structures and rethink their talent... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Organizational Structure; Talent and Talent Management; Personal Development and Career
Fuller, Joseph, Matt Sigelman, and Michael Fenlon. "How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 10, 2025).
- August 2018
- Case
Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF
By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Change Management; Global Range; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change
Battilana, Julie, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF." Harvard Business School Case 419-019, August 2018.
- 2012
- Chapter
Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France
Keywords: Credit; Commercial Banking; Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Consumer Behavior; Banking Industry; United States; France
Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France." Chap. 7 in The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture, edited by Jan Logemann. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.