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FAQs - Doctoral

Program is designed to cultivate a community of business scholars; thus, applicants must demonstrate how the research activity they are engaged in will contribute to their development as a researcher, as... View Details

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Clubs - Business & Environment

and Agriculture, and Sustainability Clubs. Food & Agriculture Club The Food and Agriculture Club creates a community for future food leaders to engage in addressing current challenges and shaping the food... View Details

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

are much weaker. In individual-level regressions of engagement in category-spanning communication patterns, we find that women, mid- to high-level executives, and members of the executive management, sales... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

18 Mar 2013
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HBS Cases: LEGO

managing a balanced business system," says Thomke. "Complexity is something you need to watch very closely." Controlling complexity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the larger View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Sep 2022
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Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

Engage with your frontline teams. Never waste a good crisis. Get ready for the long haul. Go on the offense to win now. Always follow your True North. Go to the front lines In surveying the shifting terrain of 21st century business, he... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

February 2016
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Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas

Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain—an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build theory... View Details

Keywords: Status and Position; Equality and Inequality; Spoken Communication; Organizations; Japan; United States

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basis of health and disease, supporting the Jewish community and Israel, expanding access to services and enrichment opportunities in Greater Boston, and ensuring a healthy democracy. In view of the transformative influence HBS has had on... View Details

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OPM Renew

interactive case study discussions that unfold in real time Recharge and bring new leadership insights and ideas back to your enterprise Reunite with OPM classmates and faculty and make new business connections Tap into the myriad resources and networks of the OPM... View Details

30 Nov 2021
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What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

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Events - Health Care

Events Events Jul 16 16 Jul 2025 Other Open to the Harvard community The Founder Mindset by Fifty Years TMEC - TMEC 209 Mini amphitheater. Tosteson Medical Education Center. 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 The Founder Mindset will be... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

team to dig into the language of open-mindedness. Through their work, the team identified five ingredients of conversational receptiveness—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

found that the program increased engagement with Black suppliers. “Technology companies can play a role in working toward racial equity,” explains Luca, who has been probing the role technology can play in creating a more inclusive... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

07 Apr 2021
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How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

interactions they needed to succeed. When managers understand the building blocks for team work, they can allocate time better and select the right communication tools, whether teams are dispersed or together, a new study from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Mar 2006
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Four Strategies for Making Concessions

would be more than happy to engage in mutual give-and-take during his negotiations, he often has trouble doing so with his contractors and customers. Some are clearly untrustworthy or entirely self-interested. Such negotiators are likely... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

18 Jun 2024
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What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

money and are more likely to want to help their community than men and women. They were also less likely to want children than men and women. Expressed lower degrees of assertiveness than men or women across a range of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

November 2018
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Worthy of Swift Trust? How Brief Interpersonal Contact Affects Trust Accuracy

By: Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang

Organizational scholars have long underscored the positive consequences of trust, yet trust can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perspective