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Auden Laurence

rides, museum visits with my mom, and countless hours spent on my grandfather’s lap as he recalled tales from his public service days. Mirroring my mom’s strength and my grandfather’s stories, I learned to treat our moves like one grand... View Details

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

time I came out to someone, it was with a single word: ditto. A few weeks after moving in together, I was eating dinner with my roommates, and one of them mentioned she had something important to tell us. She then went into a long speech about how despite having a... View Details

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

like digitalization and data science and artificial intelligence are deployed as management and business tools. And that means HBS needs to think differently, too. ” Karim Lakhani Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

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

of fun and speaks to the strength of joint degree relationships! Is the joint degree schedule really challenging? Can JD/MBAs still do extra things like the law clinics, law review? Although JD/MBAs straddle the two schools, there is... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

experience. After the league spun out NBA Africa as a standalone entity, it found interested investors in former NBA players who hail from the continent, including South Sudan’s Luol Deng and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Dikembe Mutombo, as well as partners View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

personal level, for instance, by asking how everyone is holding up. “It can be harder to pay attention to a long meeting online versus face-to-face.” Afterward, managers should articulate key outcomes of the meeting using other media like... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Judges - Alumni

Investors can only take in so much information in one meeting #2 - Be clear on why YOU are the best person to lead this company. As an investor, I am always looking for strong "founder business fit" #3 - Be clear on why NOW is the time for investors to support you.... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Harvard faculty in departments including economics , psychology , and sociology , as well as other graduate professional schools, like the Harvard Kennedy School of Government , Harvard Chan School of Public Health , Harvard Law School... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

people (consumers in this case) "a feeling of power" and "of being 'special'." As Dave G puts it, "companies are becoming (good) at making a very aware person like myself make the decision they want me to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Sometimes a little push like that is all employees need to get out of a rut. About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: Mark Kostich] Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Knowledge Transfer: You... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

biases by soliciting expensive advice, which we are more likely to take seriously, for example), taking our emotional temperature (determining when our feelings regarding a decision "were triggered by an event unrelated to the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Taking a Stand. Patagonia pulled its advertising from Facebook and has recently renewed its call on other firms to boycott the platform until Facebook can make sure its products do no harm. What would taking a stand look like for your... View Details

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

hours—ranging from designing a Bluetooth-enabled remote control for a motor to constructing a wooden beer case. For many of us, those first two days were an opportunity to dust off some old skills we hadn’t put to work since we left our previous jobs (and for former... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you like you must have your dates... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Nashae Roundtree

was the ideal choice. Coming to HBS is like Entering the world's greatest candy store as a wide-eyed child. Being part of the HBS community is like Having an intimate global family that happens to include... View Details

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

them to rate all the other people in the company in terms of how much they personally liked each one and how well each did his or her job. These two criteria—competence and likability—combine to produce four archetypes: the competent... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

tipped not only toward opposing a proposal, but also toward using attack tactics that tip still more people. Anxiety then builds like an infection. People use fear-mongering strategies with voices that are beastly or, more often, ones... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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