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Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Tools of the Trade As executive director of Boston Collegiate Charter School (BCCS), Shannah Varón (MBA 2009) uses her MBA skillset “all day, every day,” whether the task at hand involves structuring a management team to ensure optimal... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
double-or-nothing on a diet bet. A group of obese hospital patients agreed to a "deposit contract," banking a small amount of their own money into a pot each day during a 32-week weight-loss trial. The research team agreed to match the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Catherine Neale
Catherine Neale comes from a family with a long tradition of public service. Her grandmother, for example, led a branch of the Red Cross in England for over a decade. It was no surprise to anyone when, in the aftermath of Hurricane... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
intrusive, and negative." That wariness is costly, because feedback from the front lines is often vital to improving business practices and safety measures. With that in mind, Edmondson discussed how to foster a workplace culture of open communication in her... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
designed to provide hands-on guidance and operational support for students who are seriously pursuing founding or joining life sciences ventures before, upon, or soon after, graduation. Students will learn and develop frameworks, tools, a network, and hands-on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
into competitive volleyball after a two-year hiatus, Gonzalez began playing on the HBS student team early in the fall of 2000. “Since I had been on a national team, I thought that here, I would be the star,” he notes with a self-effacing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
They became skilled at watching the bottom line, managing scarce resources, and forming relationships with government and business organizations outside the company. At Abbott, young MBAs most often were placed in sales. As a result, they developed deep View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
When James Correa was coming to the conclusion of his military service as a logistics officer (Captain) in the US Army, "There was only one desire for a professional career that I was sure of -- to continue a career in leadership." With no particular industry... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
famous." After graduation, Huber didn't expect their career paths to cross again. But several years later, Christensen would realize that the OnStar story was a great example of navigating innovation within a large company. A... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
improvisation to viable ways of operating that can function indefinitely. Neither management scholars nor health care providers have access to an off-the-shelf solution for how to do this. But through a collaborative approach, we may be... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking... View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
his company and its mission forward. “When I came to HBS I think that’s one thing I learned. How to lead an organization, lead a team, build organizational structure, understand organizational culture, and how all those intangible elements of a View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
programs on preparing teams to function in a VUCA world, with rapidly changing customer, competitor, and stakeholder needs. Ideally, this means moving on from a fear of VUCA to embracing what I call... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
feel overwhelming. How will we integrate interns into the team? What project would drive the most value for our company and help the intern learn? Where do we start with this process? If these questions sound familiar to you and your company, learn from the View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Abstract The potential supply of biomass feedstocks in the U.S. and Canada is estimated using a static supply function approach. Estimated total biomass available at a price of $100 per metric ton is 568 million metric tons in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Case 614-063 Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A) In 2006, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals was a fast-growing biotechnology company. Its leadership team was divided over whether to keep R&D organized in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at headquarters. On the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel