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Courses - Entrepreneurship
for making those decisions. We will also introduce a range of specific tools—including business model design, lean testing, and customer and channel analytics—that are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs, as well as introduce students... View Details
- Career Coach
Lauren Murphy
individual leaders as well as senior management teams to improve team alignment with organizational goals. Lauren brings decades of management experience to her coaching work. For 14 years, she was the Director, Career Education &... View Details
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Research Areas - Doctoral
Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Research Areas 1ms HBS faculty conduct research on a wide variety of topics. In the application you must indicate your top three choices of research areas, in order of preference, from the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff
consider cutting operational costs without cutting staff, through measures such as reducing inventories, payables, and supply chain costs. Labor expenses can be contained with hiring freezes, wage freezes, furloughs, and early retirement programs, as View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
and repair, how secondhand retail pilot programs at IKEA stores are reaching new customers, and how investments like RetourMatras are developing circular solutions for end-of-life mattresses. Karen also describes how policy, design, and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
In the 1990s, when Harvard Business School Professor Lynn S. Paine was researching and writing about examples of corporate misconduct, she hoped more businesses would take decisive action to root out fraud and other unethical behavior. Many companies have since formed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Career Coach
Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, View Details
- Program
Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual
Summary Performance measurement is essential for organizational innovation, learning, and success. Nonprofits, however, must evaluate social or environmental outcomes as well as financial performance, and the ideal metrics are not always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
8 FAQs on the MBA Application
versions of these exams where available, and both GRE and GMAT scores are valid for five years. 3. Is full-time work experience required? As the case method of learning used by our MBA program relies on exchanging perspectives, you must... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
and astute). The real explanation for his success was that he had the courage of his convictions. Butler Brothers had a training program for variety store franchisees, so Walton was off to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for two weeks of education... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
program, is one of the best examples of how the JD/MBA program encourages rigorous but collaborative debate. A bit of a background on the program—the JD/MBA is a four-year degree in which students spend their full first year at either... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
business schools excel in both rigor as well as relevance. This paper provides a personal example of these synergistic relationships and discusses boundary issues associated with these faculty/firm collaborations. Executive education in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
students come together and learn from each other. Sometimes you just know what’s right and pivot toward that.” In fact, HBS was the only graduate program Cameron applied to. He appreciated that HBS wasn’t a finance-only... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
code that should allow other researchers to use remote sensing for yield estimation and program evaluation. 2025 Working Paper Rethinking Volume By: Philippe van der Beck , Lorenzo Bretscher and Zhiyu Julie Fu Gross trading volumes in... View Details
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MBA Experience - Health Care
MBA Experience Academics As part of the MBA curriculum, students analyze many cases focused on health care, and can customize their second-year experience by choosing courses, projects, papers, and independent studies specific to health care. Joint Degree View Details
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
biomedical authorities, provide programmatic guidance as well as one-on-one mentorship to Blavatnik Fellows. The Health Care Leaders Network provides opportunities for developing industry contacts and networking in the Boston area through... View Details
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
2012, as well as the “Generations and Gender Survey Core Questionnaire” in the Generations and Gender Programme from 2002 through 2013. All told, the two surveys of more than 100,000 men and women across 29 countries revealed how the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
of these leaders are somewhat singular to their field, Healy and colleague Boris Groysberg have created an HBS Executive Education program called Leadership in Financial Organizations. Combining a mix of case studies, lectures, and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
science matters. We have a class, it's a very popular class at the Harvard Business School. Some of you will take it in the spring if you're HBS students in the MBA program second year. It's called Leadership and Happiness. And here's... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff