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- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
road to get there. I started my career in music, interning for a variety of organizations as an undergrad. However, when I moved to New York City, I stumbled upon a unique opportunity to work for an emerging fashion line, which... View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
are being used, but this may unintentionally introduce problems or incompatibilities as modules and software evolve over time. It is good documentation and a best practice for research data management to include module loads in your... View Details
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
beliefs, attitudes, and demographic traits. The study, Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status, will appear in the November issue of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Standing out to succeed Chang View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
schools for all. In the end many states adopted both policies-a combination that proved enormously powerful. The problem today is that too many have come to view politics as war, where victory is paramount and "compromise" is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
the NFL does simply from television contracts, those monies annually dwarf all the numbers you just mentioned, which include everything for baseball. Baseball may be bouncing back to some degree, but at the end of the day, it still suffers from View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
started the case for his elective course on Globalization and Strategy, said that it also illustrates the first efforts of the LARC advisory committee to address business issues unique to the region. "We View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
It looks like a sleek box. But the story behind it is far more interesting. I remember the first time I spoke with Aatish Patel (HES 2022), now cofounder and CEO of XCharge Energy. He had zeroed in on a problem with electric vehicle... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental stewardship, and economic prosperity. Dow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence and organizational awareness, I was assigned... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
women—mostly Harvard undergrads—solved basic math problems for cash rewards. “While experimenting directly on executives in the field would yield interesting insights, starting in the laboratory with a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services
fill out the Research Software Request Form on our Online Requests page . How can I work on the HBSGrid from off campus? Please see information on connecting to the Grid via VPN here. How do I get started on the HBSGrid? Please access the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
beneath the radar," they really mean "taking advantage of asymmetries of motivation." Disruptive markets start among customers that appear to the incumbent to be either undesirable or nonexistent. The initial absolute size... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
Mass.-based management consulting firm TruePoint Partners, which Beer co-founded and on which he now serves as a director. Most training programs focus on developing and changing behavior of individuals and teams. Beer and his colleagues say the View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
entitled, Super Bowl Storytelling. I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call, recorded live at the 2019 Evanta CMO Executive Summit. Shelle Santana is an expert in consumer behavior, particularly in relation to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
Tell us a little about your background. I grew up in Oman, an incredibly beautiful country blessed with mountains, oceans, and deserts. I spent weekends going on treks in the mountains, scuba diving, or just spending time at the beach. But as I got older, I View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
value, businesses are able to mobilize internal resources more readily than are NGOs, but often have greater problems institutionalizing the social activities because they are adding a new dimension to something that already exists.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
cited in the paper. The problem is particularly severe in retail chains: According to the 2008 National Retail Security Survey, inventory-related employee theft contributed to a loss of $15.9 billion. Intrigued by the size and scale of... View Details