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- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
be divided into strategic and operational activities. Strategic activities include, among others, long-term capacity planning and network configuration of warehouses, distributors, View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North... View Details
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Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning
By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats
It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details
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Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War
officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens to help them... View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
(The accompanying teaching note is available to instructors to help them run the exercise.) Thomke, who has worked with global firms on upping their customer experience game, has taught the class in the HBS executive education programs,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
it has acquired Whole Foods, the market value of US big name retailers selling foods immediately drops 10 to 20 percent. The exchange of information and news, fake or fact, among large segments of the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
which I’m not authentically and unapologetically me.” Charlotte Lawson (she/her), Class of 2022 “In my first week of tenth grade, a new sexual education teacher stepped into our suburban Northern Virginia... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
educational and reunion programs, and career resources. Organizations interact with our social enterprise community through Executive Education... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
blocking power. So let’s assume that, with many contenders, Amazon had powerful reasons to choose New York. Comparative advantages presumably ranged from a large and highly educated employee pool to big... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
bucket and in a little over three years all your current customers might be gone,” says Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. For that reason, many companies have a program to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein... View Details
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Life at Harvard - Doctoral
Life at Harvard Life at Harvard Tour the Campus Our vibrant residential campus is designed to develop skills and build relationships that last a lifetime. Quality of life is a priority here. Doctoral students enjoy the many benefits of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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The Business Case for Curiosity
By: Francesca Gino
Although leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of and common barriers to curiosity in the workplace and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Learning; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness
Gino, Francesca. "The Business Case for Curiosity." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 5 (September–October 2018): 48–57.
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care
focus of Professor Robert Kaplan’s research and Executive Education teaching. He focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with... View Details
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Events | Social Enterprise
Filter Results: (1) Submit Events Upcoming Events Past Events 1 Results Apr 16 April 16, 2026 Executive Education: Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation–Virtual For nonprofit leaders, this live, online Executive View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics
Laidler-Kylander. In the last four decades, Trickle Up has served 445,000 women—a life-changing experience for those individuals, their families, and their communities. (Participants in the program typically invest in areas like nutrition... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
you can in other markets," says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites "cultural sensitivity"—the ability to know what... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit View Details