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13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

experienced firm employees. “The interns would literally sit next to full-time employees and watch what they did,” Bojinov says. "It’s going to be hard for a company to say, 'We’re not sure Zoom will work in building broad connections.'"... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Bridgette Slater

I should add attorney to this list. What is your favorite childhood memory? Watching movies with my grandmother. She and I have a dream to one day visit Prince Edward Island in Canada together because we love the Anne of Green Gables... View Details

05 Mar 2012
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Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

tree. Johnson (HBS MBA'84) comes to Penney after more than a decade of leading Apple's retail effort, where his innovations included the Genius Bar. Johnson is also credited with making Target chic. This makes his launching of the new Penney one of the most intensely... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

at a big custom-made semicircular desk . . . where he could sit and look out in all directions at the test samples, reports, and letters that covered it. He could watch technicians mixing viscous plastic concoctions." 56 Ehrenfried... View Details

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Magashe Ngoepe

trips with South African jazz music playing in the background. My family would fit six people in a five-seater car, and I would sit in the middle squeezed between my older brother and two sisters. I would often sit forward and just watch... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

time for family activities. "I've eliminated most of my overnight trips," he notes, "and I try to arrive home on weeknights in time for dinner." His involvement in athletics these days is limited to running four to five miles on weekends and View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

converging public relations, marketing, and social media, the United States Steel Corporation Photographs collection at Baker Library provides a window into the corporation’s innovative use of photography and the emerging field of PR to galvanize public opinion. View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

that were clear to us,” he said. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for fear of whatever.” Riley, who had... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2019 for my research on using machine learning to support decision making in law. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Named as one of the Top Innovators to Watch by Vanity Fair in 2019. Alan D.... View Details

27 Jun 2019
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Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

have-to-do tasks day after day, week after week, many couples carve out special time and space for certain want-to-do moments they enjoy together: They work in the gardens on Saturdays; they share a kiss on weekdays before heading to the office; they eat pizza, drink... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

watch for shoplifters, and keep smiling to maintain customer service. I was 16 and it was a real stretch, but I became quite good at juggling it all and was made a department supervisor. By age 17, I was managing coworkers in their 40s... View Details

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

22 Feb 2021
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Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

better by watching how the best of their peers perform key tasks. They pick up important lessons about how to pitch, how to answer objections, how to deal with competitive comparisons, and other aspects of selling that product at that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in the workplace? Testing For... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Oct 2015
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What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

carryover effect with one year’s success spilling into the next year. Growing up in Manhattan, Kansas, Chung became hooked on college football—and Kansas State in particular. The first game he watched was serendipitously one of the most... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

her own experience to find a surprisingly effective way to use that self-awareness to improve performance. In college, Brooks was the lead singer of a cover band and sang in an a cappella group. She watched anxiety derail countless... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. As part of... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

they see a ball, to be to bounce it rather than kick it.” “We want the first instinct of African kids, when they see a ball, to be to bounce it rather than kick it.” Tatum attended all three legs of the 2022 BAL season, watching as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

Myself.” Stephanie Myles (she/her/hers), Class of 2021 “I read fanfiction that involved women being together. I watched the L-Word online. I was a huge TiBette fan. I perused online forums for queer POC. By age 14, I was in a... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

recommended to access the rich media in the program. The course platform allows you to engage with the content and watch the course videos with bandwidth of at least 750 Kbps download speed. At this speed, you may experience video... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

serving as vice chairman before leaving the firm in 2005. "I went from being a junior person to running a large business in what seemed like a nanosecond," he says. "And suddenly more people were watching what I did, and I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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