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Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we get information and reassure each other are lost when people go remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

why it happened, and how it could be done better. Insight: Leaders must pull the best ideas from their teammates and gain their insights in order to produce the best outcomes... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Graduating During a Pandemic

made the decision to spearhead hybrid learning for the 2020-2021 academic year, making us the only school at Harvard with active in-person learning for its entire community. We knew early on many of the Harvard-wide graduation... View Details

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

Pre-performance rituals are the stuff of legend for musicians and athletes—Keith Richards eats Shepherd’s pie before every Rolling Stones concert (and must be the one to break the crust); Beyoncé prays and... View Details

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

hampering productivity and significantly impacting physician well-being. In the United States, physicians spend between 34 and 55 percent of their workday compiling clinical documentation and reviewing EMRs. While some of this contributes View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

04 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Why Career Switchers Make a Great Hire

transferable skills, and are driven to be strong candidate in their target field. Here's why you should consider hiring them: 1) Career Switchers can round out a team by adding relevant experience from their... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

this value and is related to research being done by colleague Andrei Hagiu and others into the dynamics of multi-sided markets: platforms that serve two or more distinct groups... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

sociologists (and increasingly, economists) view networks to be essential to the functioning of markets, I will review much of the work that has been View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Dealing with FOMO at HBS

things you want to go to. If you really struggle with FOMO, delete GroupMe and WhatsApp. It’s hard to have FOMO when you don’t even know what you’re missing out on. Inevitably there will View Details

10 Apr 2014
Blog Post

HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting

One of Harvard’s most interesting experiences during the first year of the MBA is FIELD 2. FIELD 2 is a program where students work in small teams to complete projects for companies operating in emerging economies around the globe. In my... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

years ago. Most markets are one-sided in nature—customers interested in buying running shoes, for example. But a multi-sided market involves more players—and each has its own interests to be served.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

minds—the deep metaphors that reveal people's true feelings about products. The solution: Find ways to generate positive emotional associations, as GSK has done with its weight-loss product. Alex Lee,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did." We asked Tedlow to discuss how denial can cripple a company, and what can be done about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

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Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project

made. For each class, students are asked to read the case and to put themselves in the shoes of the actual decision-makers to consider what they themselves would have View Details

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

thought that there was a place in the business school curriculum for the teaching of topics that provide a context for subsequent action. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy summed up this view by saying, "...whether we can 'teach' the craft of getting things View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

and what he would have done differently. "The video is a very powerful teaching tool," says Yoffie. "Few CEOs will admit to their mistakes in a public setting." The comings and goings of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

financial performance and corruption are causing significant harm to Mexico. A central theme is the president's role in making sure his team has done its homework and is fully prepared View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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