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  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

[by the disputing parties] tend to be more industry friendly. This also incents arbitrators to slant their decisions in favor of the industry to increase their chance of being selected in the future.” Building on his 2018 research of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 07 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

Living Off Campus at HBS

being walking distance to restaurants, convenience stores, and public transportation. I also decided to live with my partner while at HBS and he works downtown. This decision allowed us both to have reasonable commutes and enjoy the... View Details
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024) Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD) Social Enterprise Track Winner Empowering Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences. Pando Claire Wu (MBA 2023) Andrew Setiawan Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd... View Details
  • 09 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

researchers found. “There is so much variability in the decision to commit to remote work, even for companies that are in the same industry and compete for the same type of talent.” The researchers found similar patterns across... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Partners Partners Teacher Profiles WA Lacey Aaker Kentwood High School Covington, WA TX Sam Abramson St. John's School Houston, TX Subjects: U.S. History RI Richard Abruzzini Cranston Career & Technical Center-Cranston West Cranston, RI... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

beverage company in his home continent, Brice has pursued a career path that prepares him for leadership in manufacturing. “That’s why I studied engineering, then joined W.R. Grace,” says Brice. Through Grace’s rotational program, Brice... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

including a recent extension to the trading of carbon offsets. Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution Faculty Presenters: Juan Alcacer , James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration This case discussion focuses on Iberdrola, the world's third-largest utility,... View Details
  • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

OKRs From Individual Contributor to Manager - Adapting Your Work Style Hiring Fast and Firing Faster Making Decisions with Imperfect Data Managing Cross-Functional Teams Managing Pivots and Setbacks Managing Your Career: Should I Stay or... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

they tend to remain silent, fearful that speaking up could put their careers at risk. “A CEO might be trying to execute this corporate strategy and everybody in the organization knows it’s off the rails, but no one wants to be the bearer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via wise View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 2008
  • Chapter

Life-Cycle Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira
The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

models cannot predict. COVID-19 events deliver surprises daily to many organizations, so the decision-making process that responds to rapid change is as important as the decision itself. Agile leaders promote a move in mindsets that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

Her boss, the head of their department, had been a mentor and champion throughout Michelle's time at the company. Michelle had worked for this boss for almost ten years and credited the woman's support and wise counsel for her own continuous View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

acclimating to a new country, their environment, the case method learning pedagogy, establishing new friendships, recruiting stressors and career decisions to name a few. SAS offers three options for... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Private Equity Group, and executive chairman of the firm’s private equity business in Asia. Melwani’s support for the School stems from the deep impact his two years in the MBA Program have had on his life as well as his belief in the School’s mission. “HBS was the... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

people. That’s a big transition that many people can’t make.” Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge It’s a problem that can permeate any layer of a business—a star performer is tapped to become a manager, then flops on the next rung of the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

helped enrich the class’s understanding around cases in tech, marketing, and strategy. #3 The case method teaches you to lead in the unknown. The protagonists in almost all of the 500 cases we read and discussed had imperfect information. They had to make a View Details
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Our Curriculum - Business History

challenging decisions and ethical dilemmas entrepreneurs have faced in countries with repressive regimes and failed states in different historical eras. By reviewing the historical evidence on global entrepreneurship, it provides... View Details