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17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

counter-intuitive such as a focus on individual achievement." The Courage To Be Bad At the core of Frei's philosophy is an appeal that Harvard MBAs are not used to hearing: in order to achieve excellence, you need the courage to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

for the unique requirements of low-income urban and rural communities through conducting needs assessments for various customer segments, like street vendors, midwives, and farmers. Through experimentation and customer feedback, they have... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

Companies face a growing yet largely undetected threat to their worker productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, competitive advantage: the needs of employees who are caregivers. The aging population, an increasingly female... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

evolved in management by gender bias with skills and talents so alien to their male counterparts that they are uniquely powerful in an information world?" Other questions come to mind. Do we continue to overstate the portability of star talent? If so, how much of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Oct 2021
News

Fostering Diversity

believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need... View Details

Fast Answer

Options: Basics for finding price data

“European” style options. To get the price data you need to know the following terms: Put: contract that grants the right to sell at a given price at a given date Call: contract that grants the right to buy at a given price at... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

co-founder of the ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, secured the U.S. Steel advertising account in 1935. Barton recognized that executives of U.S. Steel subsidiaries, sometimes skeptical of public relations and its drain on their budgets, View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

Russia to build a textile business. "Half the workers in this country are employed in small businesses. We need to make sure they have the tools to grow their companies, create stable jobs, and move our economy forward." Mills serves as... View Details

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change" (proposed by those who engage in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

need to be stated, but they start getting pizza every Friday night and it's fun, so they keep doing it and then they realize they've been doing it the whole year. Either way, it's a commitment, and neither person forgets to have quality... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

without a bookstore,” she says. “It’s every bit a part of a community as a bank or a grocery store or a hardware store.” As she surveyed her new business in early 2016, however, Brody knew the East Hampton icon couldn’t remain trapped in amber. To survive, BookHampton... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Wyatt Smith

up, "show how much more we need to work to buy new clothes, go out for dinners, or take a vacation." I was confused. We didn't take many vacations. On our family farm in Alabama, my dad's work ethic seemed oppressive, almost... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

realization—that the coordinating system needs to account for individual biases and that the coordinating system is in part responsible for an individual's biases—creates a level of design complexity not currently explored by the supply... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

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Information Technology | Harvard Business School

learn, research, and work at HBS. The HBS IT three-year strategic plan, which was developed in close partnership with members of our community, addresses current IT challenges facing higher education while also embracing the unique needs... View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective learners, conducted by City Square Associates). Related Content Free E-Book How to Be a Purpose-Driven, Global Business Professional In this guide, you’ll learn... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

metaverse, and quantum-edge computing are just a few examples. In this environment, leaders must understand how to use data for decision-making (and use judgment for data); how to use design-thinking approaches to address unmet needs for... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Research Summary

Hybrid organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

date, Porter and Nohria have gathered 60,000 hours' worth of data on 27 executives, interviewing them—and hundreds of other CEOs—about their schedules. This article presents the findings, offering insights not only into best time-management practices but into the CEO’s... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

deny him the satisfaction of lording his knowledge over us. Everybody wants to work with the lovable star, and nobody wants to work with the incompetent jerk. But there are justifiable reasons to avoid the jerk. Sometimes it can be difficult to pry the View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

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