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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
Careers Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA Careers Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA Supporting recent HBS graduates making a difference working in Africa. Thanks to generous alumni support, the... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
participants were asked to select either a sticker or a button that featured the slogan “Hillary, the Candidate for America.” In a second group, participants chose between a sticker with that same slogan and a button with a View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
IRS argues that the difference in stock price is actually income to the entrepreneur. # 9: Issuing founder shares without vesting. Simply put, vesting protects the members of the founding team who take the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
for more than 600 new call center employees in 2019. They tested two different versions of the program. "Some people just won’t admit they need help." The first version created a “broad-mentoring” program... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
economics and political system. Datar: MBAs need to understand what it means to be a general manager in a global world and the differences in institutions, norms, cultures, and... View Details
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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care
role in the business. The HBS student should be a part of the founding team and a significant equity holder, if equity has been distributed. There is a $1,500,000 limit in seed capital raised and a... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
considering a different issue. How should we be teaching that history—and why? David Moss teaches history in the present tense. On a blackboard in an Aldrich classroom, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Claudia Hill
Johnson case where we got to see both Ron Johnson (protagonist) and Bill Ackman (activist investor) speaking in the classroom. We needed popcorn in that class..! What is your favorite childhood memory? When... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details
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Interviewing - Alumni
Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. Remember, the path of your discussion will depend on... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
different in any way from running a private enterprise. That's your job, if you're building a happy family: to realize that they need to be motivated and that there's a clear way to motivate them." The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
Summing Up Are we approaching a "millennial watershed" in management? The next generation of managers, comprising many "millennials," will be more adept at managing in a changing, global,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the... View Details
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Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
along with their consequences would benefit companies as they seek to improve their inventory decision-making capability. We are still in the preliminary stages of this research, but our work so far is informed by much research View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
problem-solving process. When the two parties involved are buying and selling committees representing different organizational jurisdictions within their organizations, and perhaps different levels of... View Details