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24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

Viroopa Volla is currently a third year in the JD/MBA program at Harvard. Before starting the program, Viroopa worked at McKinsey as a Senior Business Analyst and at Walmart as a Senior Manager. She graduated from Harvard College with a... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program , Leadership & Management and Strategy track. Introduction to Strategy Execution ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Strategy Execution $1,850... View Details

23 May 2018
News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was to business,” adds Johnson,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

11-week-long field experiment in 2021 with 178,862 customers of Zippia, a career service agency. Customers seeking job postings received an email containing several recommended positions and basic information about the jobs, including... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

HBS Online offers a better overall experience than competitive online business programs The cases were phenomenal. I got engulfed in the videos; they made you feel like you were in sort of a planetarium, right in the tea View Details

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939. Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and W.J. Dickson. Counseling in an Organization: a Sequel to the Hawthorne... View Details

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

own right. This article explores what the teams research community has to gain by researching, theorizing, and understanding the many new forms of contemporary collaboration. Working PapersHow Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2008
News

A History of Women at HBS

treatment of human problems in any employment situation.” HBS professor Fritz J. Roethlisberger, renowned for his work in the field of human relations (see December 2007 Bulletin), taught in the program from... View Details

Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

the fact that data questions touch every part of the enterprise.” The program drew C-suite executives and senior managers to look at how big data affects the supply chain, marketing, human resources, and other key business functions.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

learn about VC treks Get additional investor experience. Apply for one of the campus Scout programs led by prominent VC firms (Dorm Room Fund, Rough Draft Ventures, Pear VC, Lightspeed, NFX, etc.) JANUARY TERM Join a Startup Bootcamp team... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

"Complete" Activities and Societies: Leave blank Description: Sustainable Investing is a 6-week, 30-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Sustainable Investing equips investment professionals and those in related... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

multi-course certificate program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School. Bridging the fields of business and... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

personally was in the field for at least 180 working days during that time and even spent one week at a non-Toyota plant doing assembly work and spent another five months as part of a Toyota team that was trying to teach TPS at a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

July–August 2021
Article

Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

By: Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton

Problem definition: As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs. Academic/practical relevance: We propose that in co-productive settings like government services, peoples’ trust and... View Details

Keywords: Government Services; Behavioral Operations; Operational Transparency; Government Administration; Service Operations; Programs; Perception; Attitudes; Behavior; Trust

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Operations Management (M&SOM) Journal Best Paper Award for “The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment” with Santiago Gallino. Michael W. Toffel : Finalist for the 2021 MSOM Responsible... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

chômage partiel, under which the government pays a portion of a company’s wages in times of economic distress to limit layoffs. During the 2008-2009 recession, furlough programs were estimated to have saved 395,000 jobs in Japan and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

gotten just a little farther than that when he entered the Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. Through the Climate Circle, Aatish accessed... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other... View Details

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