Encouragement Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2021
News

Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

2000) in the first days of 2020 to show how Moderna’s considerable investments in AI and other digital tools allowed them to design and deliver a COVID-19 vaccine in just 41 days. Reimagining Capitalism Over the last 15 years, Rebecca... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Research Online

advertising, particularly for determined adversaries. In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers’ risks of being defrauded and reward... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 Apr 2021
Blog Post

There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS

engineering, I wasn’t excited to design a chemical process or tank. That same summer, I learned about the HBS Peek Program* through a fellow intern and friend. It was a weekend program to “peek inside” the Harvard MBA experience. He View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

groups large and small, and engaged with many thousands of alumni. These conversations have shaped how I think about the opportunities and challenges facing the world today, and thus Harvard Business School, and they have spurred two important new initiatives: the... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949

Former CEO and President, Bloomingdale’s Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: A.B., Harvard College, 1947 On Leadership: “Leadership is the ability to face up to change and encourage new ideas and concepts... View Details

07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time

Leigh Rawdon (foreground) with Tea Collection designers in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. The fanciful wood alebrije carvings inspired several pieces in the company’s fall collection. (Courtesy Leigh Rawdon) It didn’t take long for Leigh... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

FIELD, several EC courses, the Innovation Lab, and multiple start-up competitions, HBS allowed both of us to learn by doing. Combining those experiences with encouragement from professors, and the lessons gained from cases, created a nice... View Details

16 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

The mission at Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The Leadership Fellows program, an opportunity for a select group of graduating students, is one of the key ways the school supports and emphasizes that tenet. The program... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Credits - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Credits Website Credits Supported by the de Gaspé de Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School Project manager: Karen Bailey, Historical Collections, Baker Library Production manager: Ben Dubrovsky, Baker Library Information Products Web design: Eleanor... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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MD/MBA | MBA

encouraged to enter and complete a medical residency, or other kind of postgraduate clinical training, upon graduation from the joint degree program. MD/MBA graduates are expected to provide the informed leadership necessary for... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference

"Our conferences are designed to deliver value to senior executives," commented Atlanta cochair Craig R. Triplett (MBA 1981), a consultant with Korn/Ferry International, a major conference sponsor along with others including Andersen... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

collection look at how to improve decision making, encouraging employees to speak up, and the difficulty of coordinating communication in a complex organization. Enjoy! Most Popular Articles 2000-2010 Creating a Positive Professional... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA

Search Fund Fellowship Thanks to the generosity of Catherine James Paglia (MBA 1976), the Search Fund Fellowship is a program designed to enable graduating students from all socio-economic backgrounds to pursue a self-funded search and to... View Details

22 Mar 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise. In... View Details

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

decided what they would create and produce themselves and what they would encourage others to develop. This then determined the extent to which they had to disclose confidential specifications describing their platforms and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Francesca Ioffreda

innovate and apply design thinking principles. Finally, I was excited about getting to meet and work with Boston-based health care startups and develop partnership strategies. Looking back on your internship, what did CVS Health do well... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

projects are typically the ones where customization is most critical. But there are ways for teams to handle this situation. The team leader can manage, and even leverage, pressure by designing meetings with controls in place—built-in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Sep 2013
News

Authentic Leadership

Leadership Development (ALD) are encouraged to check their public personae—the polished resumes or stylized Facebook pages they've crafted that tell a version of their life story—at the door. Inside the classroom, the focus is on... View Details