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10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

Besides, prior studies have shown that other factors motivate self-employed people more than salary. Their bottom lines are not entirely measured in dollars, Kerr says. “It’s about being your own boss, spending more time with your family,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Portrait Project

Kate Kleinsman

“You can always come back home” said my mum as we lugged my suitcases into my college dorm room in the big city. ‘Why would I?’ I thought to myself. I come from a small town where a new bakery opening makes the local paper and you run... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

stories, and partnering with them to help them meet their health goals. Being in the clinic was a great opportunity for me to apply what I previously learned in real-time to help a real patient. Unexpectedly, spending View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

world seems suddenly uncertain. There are new questions about where we are going as a people, as business leaders, and as good citizens. Leaders have to be able to manage in stable, prosperous times View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

more likely to get the job. We have data on entrepreneurs pitching ideas to venture capitalists: If your pitch is more genuine and authentic, you’re three times more likely to get money for your venture. So... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

CEOs are communicators. Studies show that CEOs spend 85 percent of their time in communication-related activities, including speeches, meetings, and phone calls with people both inside View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

“With an internship, you don't have a long time to make an impact,” said Sullivan. “The key is to ask questions to understand what is going on quickly and identify where you can contribute.” Cheung referred... View Details

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

in such a big class?” Well, Neil Wusu (MBA 2015) and Philipp Schalli (MBA 2015) are here today to answer some of those common questions, tell you about section life, and the ways it builds a community here... View Details

08 Feb 2023
News

Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

named the Chief Innovation Officer at Oak Street in January 2022, with the firm noting at the time that he would “lead strategic efforts to expand the [c]ompany’s model.” The release went on to note that, under Price’s leadership “Oak... View Details

Profile

Tara Basu Trivedi

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? To get out of my comfort zone – to explore startup ideas, to meet people who don’t think like me, to learn about what goes into making a team and a product successful. I knew I’d never... View Details

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

Profile

Katie Sadler

become life-long mentors. What is your favorite childhood memory? Every summer, my mom would pile our family, including two dogs, into a minivan and we would drive from Michigan to Maine to spend the summer with my grandparents. We spent... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care

March 2023, Teodorescu traveled to Ukraine to deliver 50 additional SurgiBox units at the military’s request. A portable operating room that fits into a backpack and runs on a rechargeable battery, SurgiBox is a View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; surgery; Ukraine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

of its time on the “operations management” side, such as on managing supply chains. Digital technologies are, of course, discussed in that area, but TOM also has a robust portion of the course directly devoted to innovation, View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

2019
Article

Go-Shops Revisited

By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao

A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find... View Details

Keywords: Go-shop Process; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Deal; Performance Effectiveness; Technological Innovation

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27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Bill George is the former chairman & CEO of Medtronic and currently a senior fellow at Harvard Business School. He's the author of True North, The Emerging Leader Edition. You Might Also Like: Gen Xers View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

GIVING SALES MANAGERS AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES TIME TO FOCUS ON BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, MANAGING, AND SELLING." AI systems help produce highly accurate sales forecasts, which... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

ongoing support and guidance on issues that surface with faculty or RAs to help ensure the most effective and productive working relationship. RSS manages every aspect of recruiting View Details

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14699 Forced Sales and House Prices Authors:John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Parag Pathak Abstract This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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