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2.2 Recruiting Standards of Conduct | MBA

2.2 Recruiting Standards of Conduct Missed Class While students can use limited excused absences for recruiting, the HBS Learning Model and MBA Honor Code require all students to consistently engage in class. Daily attendance is expected... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

own experiences and offered expertise as well as personal reflection on this all-too-common dilemma. Myra Hart a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert on gender in organizations, described her research and the outreach she's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1998
News

Plunging Into the Net

and more cases, of doing business. As millions of individuals and organizations stake out positions on the Information Highway with Web sites, the nature of business is changing. "The Internet provides new ways to do old things," says HBS... View Details

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

Case Study: Moment in the Sun

173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

Spoiler alert: slowing down to focus on team, culture, organizational design, business model and continuous improvement are all a part of the formula. So take a breath this summer and redouble your... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

billion at the end of 2007. Lan is at an interesting point in history as the low-cost model was recently implemented. While early results have been strong, observers wonder if the airline can successfully manage three disparate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

desires, it doesn't have needs. It's basically taking in sensory data and trying to make a model of the world and make predictions and understand the world around it. That's the part of the AI thing that we're doing. So, you worry a... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

communicating both the business benefits (including the risk of not changing) (and for employees) ‘what’s in it for me.’” The predominant message of respondents was that culture change is a complex process often requiring years to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Sep 2015
Blog Post

5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS

this period, surrounded by 89 of the most impressive people you’ve ever met in your section, to feel like you should already have a comprehensive understanding of business and leadership fundamentals to stay afloat. I certainly felt some... View Details

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United States Army. My career... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

The sole ownership model made a lot of sense for Apple early on, Andersen notes, but the collaborative Windows approach enabled Microsoft to become bigger, quicker. “Within AGR there’s this notion that you don’t want to share a ton of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Author:Laura Alfaro Publication:World Scientific Publishing Company, in press Abstract All managers face a business environment in which international and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

to work for me. The research shows you don’t have to hire all the smart people to have innovation. It allows the outside world to help with innovation and causes companies to excel in other dimensions. Previously, you relied on R&D for success. Now you have to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)

art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Aug 2015
Blog Post

Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?

and non-profits are intrigued, though somewhat disturbed, at the idea of mixing clinical care and business. Similarly, my friends in business are perplexed as to why I would willingly accept five years of graduate school debt. I have to... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

business community stand on all this? Generally, it backs reforms, believing that open markets require political openness. The business community is influential but the government is sufficiently repressive... View Details

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

engaged campus community. Beyond the campus, the program’s impact is evident in a revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

certainly still major obstacles that we’ll need to overcome if we hope to decarbonize transportation, but the four jam-packed days I spent at COP28 gave me hope that the technology solutions we need are available today. The real challenge will come in creating the... View Details

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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

and Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer Terrill Drake . Brian Kenny: On September 23, 2020 Harvard Business School unveiled the action plan for racial equity, an ambitious plan to advance racial equity, both within and beyond the School.... View Details

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