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14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

doctors had to switch from their traditional specialties to treat patients affected by the virus. Given the isolation of coronavirus patients from family members, many doctors and nurses who were not accustomed to providing end-of-life care became the primary View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Gaining the community's trust is vital to building a successful business with crowdsourcing, agreed business leaders at the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard Business School on March 30. When Tongal got its start in 2009, some members of the community questioned... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

are willing to take some risks, disclose some of their shortcomings, and open themselves to constructive criticism—admittedly a tall order. Choosing The Right Position Establishing a management career begins with choosing the right... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

opened a small American Chinese restaurant in Dallas, and in the classic fashion to save money, I would often help out. At HBS, I have had the privilege to explore, reflect, and find my calling. I realize that I love food and restaurants!... View Details

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

that we like people who are similar to us; people we are familiar with; people who have reciprocal positive feelings about us; and people who are inherently attractive, either in their appearance or their personality—that is, they are considerate, cheerful, generous,... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

So it's an issue of not being satisfied and also being creative. On the structural side, they have very adaptive organizations, and on the people side, strategic intelligence is distributed throughout the organization. So they typically... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

net-zero emissions by 2040. In the interim, we are targeting absolute GHG reductions of more than 40 percent by 2030. From the way we source our crops to the energy we use in creating and distributing our... View Details

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

and services. That’s not to deny that there are other sources for that kind of information. They tend to reside in the lower reaches of nearly any organization, among those who don’t have the same perks as those at the top. "A popular fix... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

limit, or # of interactive sessions). If the compute grid is busy, there many not be enough RAM or CPUs on any of the compute nodes to run your application. Open a terminal session and type bjobs on the command line (details here). Look... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

case discussions doesn’t just show you what your unique viewpoint is, but also enables you to critically listen to classmates and understand how their backgrounds shape their perspectives. What advice would you give to prospective MBA students interested in your... View Details

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

team forever. 3. Long-term need vs. short-term fix Another common mistake is hiring a full-time expert in an area that only needs occasional work—for example, performance engineering. Certainly, if you’re building a complex distributed... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

is easiest to use but limited to the features offered by your application or programming language. Most of the applications commonly used for data analysis on the HBSGrid provide some degree of implicit parallelization. The system-wide installation of Rstudio /... View Details

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Enterprise Balanced Scorecard: The Enterprise Scorecard is the source of essential information for executive management and the board, providing a concise but thorough understanding of the business and its key drivers. This tool describes... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

greatest source of wealth for most families. In this interview Segel discusses the importance and fascination of real estate, and three important trends remaking the industry: institutionalization, environmentalism, and globalization.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

March 2022
Article

How to Prioritize the Improvement of Open-Source Software Security

By: Frank Nagle

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Cybersecurity; Applications and Software

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01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training for high school-age prospects, in Senegal. Yet fulfilling the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give up and call it a career.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

charting new courses. My current boss, Marshall Carter: he's a constant source of new ideas.” Best business advice ever received: “Early in my career I was offered a position working for the new CEO of State Street, Bill Edgerly. It was a... View Details

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