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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

As a Program Advisor, I really enjoy working with people to help match individuals to the programs that meet their individual learning needs. We currently deliver more than 130 open enrollment and custom... View Details

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

Fortune article. “We knew it was statistically impossible. As a collective, we always kind of wondered: How the hell does he do it? Every person was curious. But that’s where it stopped. You’d stop yourself from wondering. You’d say,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Historical Data Visualization To facilitate understanding the history of global capitalism in its broad societal context, this tool provides historical data on broad economic, social and political trends both globally View Details

September 2014
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Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Alex Radu

Keywords: Career Management; Authenticity; Race; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Banking Industry

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02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

the US Constitution, you need to understand the time period from which it emerged, Moss argues, and the problems and personalities that shaped it. Today’s case protagonist is... View Details

Keywords: April White

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for documentation, research, and maintenance of shipwrecks, reefs, downed WWII planes, boat docks, View Details

01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

communities.” That realization prompted Bobo to leave his position as a principal at the Carlyle Group and in 2016 launch Project Destined (PD), a social impact vehicle that trains inner-city youth to be active partners in sourcing View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 May 2011
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Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

employees to send packages to correct addresses. Instead of a blanket policy prohibiting web use, Piovesan suggests employers give workers periodic breaks for personal communications. "We think it would be a good idea to give... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 May 2012
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The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

Keywords: by Julie Wulf

04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

enough. With kidneys, for every five people that receive a transplant in the United States every year, one person dies waiting for one. We’re working on two solutions. First, we need to get better drugs that allow organs to function... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Dec 2002
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Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

suggest most accounting errors aren't the result of fraud. Rather, it is unconscious bias that is to blame. Here is a look at those biases, and how they can escalate from a small error of judgment to a big financial nightmare.Rooting out... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

04 Jun 2018
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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

David Wittenberg wrote that a board that would automatically disqualify such fired managers might be playing it too safe. “When a board of directors identifies a candidate with the right skills, personality View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

accent and direct, engaging manner, he comes across immediately as the kind of person who is accustomed both to doing things right and to doing the right thing. Over a late... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

classmates essentially engaged in medical tourism—they would simply bundle up the care they needed, make a trip to their country of origin, and take care of it. India was certainly one of those countries I was aware of due to my own View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

popular then, the globalization of markets (rather than production), because customers everywhere were supposed to increasingly want the same products and services. As a result, Goizueta embarked on a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

the leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators that we become later in life, paying dividends that far exceed any minimum-wage salary. Here, alumni share stories about their entry-level errors, as well as the View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2013
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Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte &... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

02 Oct 2023

Take30 Impact Series: Life Post-HBS - Hispanic Heritage Month Edition

Take 30 minutes out of your day and gain deeper insight into how one alum is making an impact in their own way after HBS. We’ll touch on their experience as a student, and then “zoom” in on their career path... View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

Move over, venture cap. There's a new kid on the block. It's the business incubator, and it has the potential to remake the way businesses are launched in the Internet economy. Incubators are not really new, of course. "They've been... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 May 2013
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Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006

For Raphael Geismar, chairman and CEO of Stumec, a French supplier of tools and equipment to the railway industry, the attraction to HBS was part aspiration, part continuity. “In France View Details

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