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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have... View Details
- January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
- Teaching Note
Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A) and (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
back home and was being sent to HBS by his bankers, who believed there was more he could learn about accounting. Gaines-Cooper was an astute financier but had never attended university. The Rolls, he confessed to Wallner, was all part of... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
case discussion in an MBA classroom might not be the same as singing to thousands in an arena or teeing up at the Masters, it is a practice that often inspires anxiety. We talked with four professors at HBS about how they use rituals in... View Details
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
parent community at HBS. After you have such a positive experience, you want to pay it forward to other families, which I believe makes the parent community at HBS so special. Regardless of the situation, the parent community and broader... View Details
- Web
Ways to Give Today - Alumni
Giving Ways to Give Today Giving Ways to Give Today Show Your Support There are many ways to make your gift to Harvard Business School Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give View my giving history Hide my giving history We... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
He didn’t hire acolytes. I first met him in 1981, after he visited the class of the late HBS professor Richard Vancil, not long after he had become CEO. As we left class, he was in deep discussion with a woman student in the class who had... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
Book). Then, since I’d worked for film executive producers and directors before school, I was asked to produce the HBS Show (the full-length musical theater production that spoofs the business school... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
and credit from development banks was used for long-term capital needs. I also show that as inflation increased in the 1930s, real returns for investors were lowered significantly. Q: What is the state of governance in Brazil today? A: A... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
there is no significant relationship between service quality and profitability. My findings highlight the importance of attending to process discipline in certain service settings. They also show that too much corporate emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
varieties, we show that there is no pure strategy symmetric price equilibrium in general (for n > 2 with linear transportation costs). In turn, if the limitation on the number of varieties consumers purchase comes from a budget... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
delivery services) and relationship satisfaction. Study 1 uses an eleven-year longitudinal panel survey to show that increases in time-saving purchases predict long-term increases in relationship satisfaction. Study 2 replicates these... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with... View Details
- Profile
Rafaella Mazza
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? An internal feeling of inquietude regarding my career path and future opportunities and a desire to “go back to school” as a growth platform. Also, the support of mentors who believed I actually had a chance of being... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow risk component and a discount rate risk component shows that yield spreads have offsetting effects in each component. A widening yield... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
rituals also tend to go the extra mile for the company, showing better “organizational citizenship” by doing things like staying late at work to help a colleague. Such rituals don’t just boost morale. Companies reap huge benefits when... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment
currently cover only forever chemicals in... April 2025 Teaching Material What IKEA Do We Want? By: Juan Alcácer Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-429. 2025 Working Paper Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from... View Details
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
hardly any talk. To that end, a team of passive followers benefits from an extraverted leader. "Often the leaders end up doing a lot of the talking, and not listening to any of the ideas that the followers are trying to provide," says View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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General Management - Faculty & Research
service firms that join climate alliances show increased adoption of climate-aligned management practices; greater adoption of emissions targets; reductions of own-emissions; mixed evidence of increased funding for green projects; and... View Details