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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
$10 million a year. The internet rescued us.” Family bonding: “For one week every summer, we’ve been building a tree house. We must have 10,000 pounds of lumber up in the air. It’s really sturdy—but it’s an unpleasing aesthetic experience.” What I’ve learned: “All of... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
one million registered users just a year after launch. Lesson 2: Keep services free Companies should expect to invest significant capital in a mobile money service, since a new service may not become profitable until it reaches a large... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
and the US auto industry are on their way to recovery and that the IPO symbolizes the beginning of a new stage in the life of GM, whose sales figures have recently shown improvement. Vineet Kumar, Assistant Professor of Business... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for the dynamics of self-selection into patenting, we find that patenting has a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
employees must help frustrated customers with their problems, but because Indian call center employees are often expected to 'de-Indianize' many elements of their behavior—for example, by adopting a Western accent and attitude," the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
mentorship programs. In the case of mentorship, it takes a thoughtful workplace to design programs that are not predatory in nature. By default, many of the members of underrepresented communities will have been expected to assimilate.... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public health to illustrate how each side can inform and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
recently, advertisers have tapped into the popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and Second Life to create intriguing campaigns and an important presence. Q: Why is dissatisfaction increasing with traditional TV advertising?... View Details
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
that you do. Honor is about making and keeping commitments. Start first by honoring people who don’t expect it, but whose work helps make your leadership possible. Two years ago, students at Harvard Business School began a practice called... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
mere six months later and was an immediate success. The demand for the card exceeded expectations by far and the bank was inundated by more than 100,000 applications in the first weeks. The road to the successful market launch, however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
direct exposure to the daily life and potential business opportunities in base-of-the-pyramid markets. We arrive by van at the Santa Ana del Valle town square on Saturday morning. There’s a basketball court; a small, local history museum;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
approaching 40 who has a seemingly idyllic life, professional success, and a great marriage, but who wonders what happened to the life she had promised to herself when she was young. In a world in which women are View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
supervision. While Thyssen delegated tasks and expected managers to achieve certain objectives, Taylor's management principles had managers and workers run through a checklist of motions or functions to be fulfilled in order to achieve a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
the return of the Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course after a two-year absence. In addition, the MBA program graduated the first class of students from the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program. The... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
famous." After graduation, Huber didn't expect their career paths to cross again. But several years later, Christensen would realize that the OnStar story was a great example of navigating innovation within a large company. A... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
interests of the company's founders and existing venture investors. Finally, while Bollinger was expected to lead the company for the next two to three years, Pervasis' board was planning to launch a search for a permanent CEO in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
retail onto the social media platform.” Gaglani: “We are on a mission to educate the world’s health professionals. There are clinician shortages across the professions and globe, from primary care physicians in West Virginia to frontline health workers in Rwanda, and... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
coconut fibers from locally grown trees. As of today, some 5,200 people are employed by this project. For these formerly impoverished Brazilians, life has dramatically changed for the better. Their children are now in school and doing... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge