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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

so. Tactics include training that defuses fears of disagreeing; encourages people to cultivate a receptive mindset; teaches people to choose words carefully, hedge claims, and emphasize areas View Details

03 Jul 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

just about a getting a degree is to fall way short of the incredible life experience that students have here. I will miss it more than words can express. View Details

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Factiva: Field tags

lead paragraphs Volume vol= Volume and/or number of publication Word Count wc> wc< All words found in the Headline and Text groups * Searchable fields, but not... View Details

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

words still ring true for me five months later. For one of my team’s late nights, we retreated to my apartment to test whether our “alarm” could detect when a shower was running. But the evening was also an... View Details

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

Hannah Truong Author MBA Students tag Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care at HBS Morgan Moncada (MS/MBA 2023) How has your time at HBS changed your views on health care? HBS has greatly diversified my understanding of health care.... View Details

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

columnist and best-selling author). Ultimately, the printed word brought Levitt to HBS, when Edward Bursk, editor of the Harvard Business Review, asked the young University of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

Portrait Project

Amy Long

I was supposed to be a writer. As a child, I treasured no sisterhood of dolls. I yearned for no film stars. Team sports, I simply ignored. Instead, I recall only my fingers working feverishly over my grandfather's typewriter, a roar in my... View Details

Portrait Project

Haley Brown

“For you, a thousand times over.” It is a quote from The Kite Runner, a book my parents and I read when I was in high school. A quote that they engraved on a bracelet when I graduated. These six words hold a promise View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 711-462) and also winner in the Strategy and General Management category for “Apple Inc. in 2012” with Penelope Rossano (HBS Case 712-490). 2014 Frank Nagle : "Drivers and Dynamics View Details

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Erin Kaivan

that it lets you sample many different industries," Erin says. "I'm planning on using the time to find out what I really love. All of my doors are open, and none are closed!" She concludes with "advice to others: stay... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective course focused on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This multiyear... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short stories and 78 books, with sales... View Details

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

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

answers to the question depend on "the magnitude and complexity of the choices to be made " Yedendra Chouksey and S. Huang appear to agree that, in the words of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

A few hundred years ago, it was considered a virtue to know a little bit about everything. They even had a word for it: “Renaissance man.” Now, with vast amounts of knowledge literally at our fingertips,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Feb 2021
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How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

fisheterian.” I knew the word “pescatarian,” but I was making a very bad attempt at humor. After the talk, the cognitive psychologist Doug Medin approached me. Before I tell you what he said, it’s important to know that Doug is a friend... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

comes to getting a job done, of course competence trumps likability. "I can defuse my antipathy toward the jerk if he's competent, but I can't train someone who's incompetent," says the CIO at a large engineering company. Or, in... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Guides to Archival Collections Next Selected Digital Historical Resources Selected Digital Historical Resources Hawthorne works for the manufacture View Details

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

scientist who can’t wait to get to the classroom to share the experiment. If you adopt this mindset, students will remain intellectually and spiritually in the classroom with you.” The Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

SUMMING UP: Is collective pride the primary contributor to organization arrogance? There are three things that many respondents to this month’s column can agree on: (1) Pride is an attractive trait among members of an organization;... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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