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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content... View Details

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Business and the Making of the Single European Market" 12 pm to 1:30 pm Apr 30 30 Apr 2025 Virtual Seminar Andrea Lluch (CONICET; National University of Los Andes), "Global Development and International... View Details

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details

18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From my research, we see when a mismatch... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Parthenon Group 2008 Named Managing Director, Parthenon Group 2011 Cofounds Social Finance 2011 Named Board Chair, Facing History and Ourselves 2013 Social Finance launches first Social Impact Bond 2017... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure from the input data. Either machine learning approach is only as good as the humans who are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

September 2021
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Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details

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24 Jun 2014
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Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation By: Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

During a class discussion, case instructors manage participation along two dimensions: who to call on and how to interact with students in the process of questioning,... View Details

30 Oct 2019
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How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization, making the equity stakes of earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2021
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Can We Train for Trust?

concluded that “trust in leadership positively affects employees’ job performance, overall job satisfaction, and commitment to their organizations.” One study of 6,500 Holiday Inn employees concluded that when they rated their trust in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

seamlessly deliver synchronous and asynchronous online learning. In short, I see the coming year as an opportunity to move many initiatives forward; we must plant the seeds now to ensure that HBS remains at the forefront of View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

environment is much less rich than in other countries/sectors and in which managers are concerned about measuring the effectiveness of their commercial actions. Among the most immediate decisions they need... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

NOTE FOR FOUNDERS: See "Application Process for Founders" section below for details about limitations on capital raised and revenue generated. Your job is based full-time in Africa (one of the 54 recognized... View Details

29 Jan 2021
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My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

their student loans. Still, taking-on student debt to finance an MBA is a significant commitment, and we recognize that personal circumstances influence how each student approaches that commitment. To better understand how HBS graduates... View Details

15 Jul 2020
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From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

call was in our TOM (Technology, Operations and Management) class, when our rockstar professor, Yael Grushka-Cocayne, asked me to walk her through the process of creating a circuit board at Donner Co. I was... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

School of Business to lay out best practices as well as challenges. They also highlight three domains already using probability forecasts successfully: meteorology, economics, and political science.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions Author:Anette Mikes Periodical:International Journal of Risk Assessment and View Details