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  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer.  Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details
  • Career Coach

Doug Marsan

Doug is excited to help fellow students find their work purpose, especially those looking to fight the climate crisis through climate tech or looking to pivot into VC/startup land. He studied mechanical engineering at Notre Dame (Go... View Details
  • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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  • March 2008
  • Article

Radically Simple IT

Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details
Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Capitalism, Slavery, and the Legacy of Cesare Beccaria

By: Sophus A. Reinert
The Milanese Marquis Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) dedicated his life first to theorizing a more just and equal society grounded in individual rights, anchored in secular political economy rather than in religious dogma, then to realizing this bold vision... View Details
Keywords: Slavery; Racism; Capitalism; History; Society
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  • January 2012 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer

By: George Serafeim
In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry
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Program Details - Doctoral

handbook , creating a robust and exciting living, learning, and social community of undergraduate researchers; Summer Project Work. Fellows are assigned 1:1 to an HBS faculty mentor to work on 1 summer... View Details
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Weitz No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf   PublicationsMulti-Rater Assessment of Individual Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations Author:Teresa M.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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  • 18 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

each fall to give MBA recruits a better idea of our company culture, current project mix, and firm history. Give us your elevator pitch – what is the one thing students should know about working for you? CRC... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
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Research Overview

Jillian has an interest in understanding the effect of high worker autonomy and uncertainty on operational metrics. Her research attempts to empirically explore the relationship between efficiency, resource utilization, and quality in hospital settings.... View Details

  • 2016
  • Book

Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Ethics; Society; Mission and Purpose; Natural Environment
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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

http://people.hbs.edu/dscharfstein/Articles/FT-Article_09-14-10.pdf   Working PapersThe Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Europe and Eurasia Author:Rawi Abdelal An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer.  Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

http://people.hbs.edu/evandensteen/OnlineDocs/PP10_MS_EVdS_Culture%20Clash.pdf   Working PapersThe Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms Authors:Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga, and Hua... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? A new book by Amy Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds describes the approach of 'big teaming' with a case study of a high-profile smart city. Don’t be afraid to be a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

can shift for many reasons, but the consequences for inner work life are almost always negative. For instance, managers often fail to realize the damage that will be done to employee engagement if they neglect proper customer management.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

about exactly what to give away and how to couple it with complementary products and services than you do anything else." Wooing Open-source Developers Another focus centers on determining how to make it easier for the open source community to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Lean Forward Media

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity
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