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Investment Management Workshop
more effectively Broaden your range of potential investment and allocation strategies Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished investment industry executives from various... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
paired student teams with technologies developed at the University, alongside an experienced industry mentor. The student teams were responsible for developing a commercialization strategy for the inventor... View Details
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
lifetime. HBS colleagues Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson expressed some of the same thoughts in a book they coauthored titled Just Enough, a personal determination made through “the art of complex decision-making about noncomparable... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Program
High Potentials Leadership Program
Balance your personal leadership style with the demands of the organization without compromising your principles Adjust your leadership approach as your responsibilities grow and change Develop the next... View Details
- Program
Senior Executive Program—Africa
optimal execution Improve your organization's ability to innovate, including creating new digital processes and offerings Build a sustainable, accountable organization with greater transparency and stronger governance Develop enduring... View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
Artistic Methods and Business Disorganization
The idea that artists' work can usefully inform business practice has gained support in recent years. Managers have long described some business activities as "more art than science," but usually they've meant by this that they don't understand the activity and can't... View Details
Austin, Robert D., and Lee Devin. "Artistic Methods and Business Disorganization." In 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, edited by Charles Wankel, 490–499. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008.
- February 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)
ES Technologies started in 1976 as a storefront in Tempe, Arizona selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. Twenty years later, revenues exceeded $3.5 billion, and the business had evolved from a computer store to a master reseller and full-line integrator of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Arizona
Applegate, Lynda M. "QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-295, February 2000. (Revised November 2002.)
- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
analysis for a client and take a shortcut by relying on an artificial intelligence language model to develop some key insights. The client loves your report and praises the quality of your suggestions. Afterwards, however, you have a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
- 2007
- Text Book
Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course
By: Sandra J. Sucher
This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career
Sucher, Sandra J. Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course. Routledge, 2007.
- Article
Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
I review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how geographic mobility of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on this interdisciplinary literature, I document that geographic mobility creates value by... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Mobility; Frictions; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work." Academy of Management Annals 16, no. 1 (January 2022): 258–296.
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martínez A., and Dean Yang Abstract—While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
In December 2023, Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah made headlines with a blunt company-wide email: “Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.” The missive... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- June 2024
- Case
Alignvest Student Housing: Keep Building or Time to Sell?
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Patrick Sanguineti
Sanjil Shah, Managing Partner of Alignvest Student Housing REIT (ASH), faces the most significant decision thus far in his career: is it the right time to sell the company? Together with his partner Reza Satchu, Shah had developed ASH into the largest student housing... View Details
Keywords: Exit Strategy; Real Estate; Founder; Equity Valuation; Decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance; Interest Rates; Health Pandemics; Housing; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown; Canada
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Alignvest Student Housing: Keep Building or Time to Sell?" Harvard Business School Case 824-208, June 2024.
- January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model
By: Robert G. Eccles
Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
Eccles, Robert G. "Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model." Harvard Business School Case 408-103, January 2008. (Revised January 2008.)
- October 2004
- Background Note
A Note on Drawing Implications from Themes
Discusses the process of generating implications from life themes, a necessary step for completing the Self-Assessment and Career Development final paper. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Higgins, Monica C. "A Note on Drawing Implications from Themes." Harvard Business School Background Note 405-015, October 2004.
- Program
Succeeding as a Strategic CFO
program, you will learn what it takes to meet the demands of the CFO role. You will begin to build a robust set of skills in strategy, communication, and leadership that will enable you to drive innovation and lead organizational change. Key Benefits This program helps... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
“Because I think that they're likely to have those other kinds of skills that are just far more difficult to achieve.” You Might Also Like: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed The Best Person to Lead Your... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
organization from outside can work less well than having managers develop their own, potentially inferior, performance measures. In this sense, it is the creation of a balanced scorecard, more than actual use, that can change an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2022
- Article
Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality
By: Valeria Giacomin and Geoffrey Jones
This article discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States, and has... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Foundations; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Values and Beliefs; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East
Giacomin, Valeria, and Geoffrey Jones. "Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality." Journal of Business Ethics 180, no. 1 (September 2022): 263–282. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04875-4.)