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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

buddy—someone in your work life who can give you direct feedback and a sanity check when needed. Step 8: Maximize Your Contribution Whether it's your first board meeting or your fortieth, there is no substitute for preparation. Read all... View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

notes, a meeting isn’t useful if it merely consists of a manager talking at employees. Instead, meeting facilitators should strive to make the gathering interactive, soliciting feedback from participants or sending people into breakout... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

learning elements of the course by offering feedback on others’ reflections and contributing to conversations on the platform. Participants who fail to complete the course requirements will not receive a certificate and will not be... View Details

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

are really powerful drivers.” Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

Center for Entrepreneurship The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is a vital resource to HBS students and a champion for entrepreneurship at HBS. Are you an entrepreneur? Need advice on pitch feedback or startup challenges? HBS... View Details

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Set Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

significantly in America between 2007 and 2020. However, bias remained constant for ability, weight, and age, the study said. Creating a safe space for all voices to be heard requires leaders to take stock of their biases, both unconscious and conscious. Spending time... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

similar pace and can take full advantage of social learning opportunities. In addition to module and assignment completion, we expect you to offer feedback on others’ reflections and contribute to conversations on the platform.... View Details

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

feedback to last month’s column Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance? We would like to think that religious belief does affect organizational performance. Deb Wiesner expressed this feeling in an email response to the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

reading from the Working Knowledge Archives It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/sanjeri View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

Employee, The New York Times, November 3, 2019. Your feedback to last month’s column How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity? I’d like to think that the tentative nature of the few responses to this column suggest the early stages of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

policy makers.” You Might Also Like: Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone. Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

ways. A retired engineer threw himself into doing hands-on engineering work as a volunteer for the new community center being built in town. Finding a new source for valued affirmation: Retirees often miss the recognition and positive View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/sturti View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

did it take for you to start seeing results, both from a managerial perspective and at the firm level, but also on a personal level, and what did those results look like? What was the feedback that you were getting? WW: The example I just... View Details

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

question of when life begins.” You Might Also Like: How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap? View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

our story and gain feedback from an audience of potential investors,” Goble says. The victory also came with $75,000, a sizable sum for the young firm facing basic company-formation costs. The enterprise became part of the Harvard i-lab... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

thing Moss knows for sure: There is no case method without the case itself. “It’s like trying to do an anatomy class without the cadaver.” The teachers and students in the pilot program, who provide feedback on each case, are helping Moss... View Details