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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)
admissions process? While in undergraduate, I was hungry to learn more about leadership and having a positive impact on communities through business leadership. Outside of the classroom, I was very involved with entrepreneurship and small... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to topics with similar or opposing bias and slant? (2) Do contributors View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
crisis both personally and professionally, the reputational risk she encountered, and the lessons she learned as a director. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111035-PDF-ENG Kumon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About
she embodied the spirit of the love of learning in this university community.” Also at the time of the gift, the Honorable Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979), US Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009, subsequently US Secretary of Transportation... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
what we have learned so far about the potential and limits of microfinance and how insights from research and practice can help inform the industry's current products, policies and future developments. Initiatives & Projects The Arthur... View Details
- Web
Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
patients into paying customers, mergers, analytics, big data, personalized or precision medicine, and population health to name a few. None was successful in improving outcomes and controlling cost. On that backdrop, Porter and Teisberg... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
will work together. Even if you don't develop a close personal bond, doing so will help you create a productive working relationship. Matching Your Requests For Support To Your Situation The type of support you need from your boss will... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- December 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Curt Schilling's Next Pitch
By: Noam T. Wasserman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Rachel Gordon
As his major-league pitching career was starting to wind down in 2006, baseball all-star Curt Schilling decided to become an entrepreneur. Looking to focus his tenacity and his passion for online role-playing games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Video Game Industry
Wasserman, Noam T., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Rachel Gordon. "Curt Schilling's Next Pitch." Harvard Business School Case 810-053, December 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
full-time MBA experience once in your life. You want to make sure that you pick the right two years personally and professionally. I wouldn't worry so much about the financial component -- just focus on if the time in your life is right... View Details
- December 2023
- Case
Robert McNamara: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family... View Details
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Military; Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Business Education; War
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Robert McNamara: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 124-036, December 2023.
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
globally when carrying out such a worthy but ambitious goal. And the whole story points to the personal challenges that face the originator of a cool nonprofit idea when "me-too" for-profit companies seek to compete for the same... View Details
- Program
OPM Renew
Summary Whether you attended the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School last year or many years ago, the excitement of learning and growing at HBS—and collaborating and networking with other entrepreneurial... View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
(Hugh Quick); and (8) management that does "not observe sanctions when trust is violated" (Tony Smale). Charles Green added that "We don't have it because we haven't taught it, learned it, practiced it." In fairness,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
Angeles Lakers basketball team. Supporting material shows film clips of some of the more notorious Knight moments as well as Coach K's press conference after turning down the Lakers job. Students come away with a deep sense of each coach's View Details
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Research Services - Faculty & Research
Writing Group provides foreign language support and business practices. The Directors of Research also offer an occasional faculty “immersion” to provide opportunities for faculty who have spent little or no time in emerging countries to View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
celebrated its 20th anniversary. Watch a video and learn more about its place in the HBS culture. Since its inception, the Portrait Project has become an increasingly familiar aspect of HBS culture, with graduating students and their... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
published May 4, aims to reverse some of the damage done by other cutthroat leaders who have taken a slash-and-burn approach to business. “So much of what I learned when I was at business school, or in my early years as an executive, is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard; his research develops tools for machine learning that mitigate bias and enhance privacy. Generative AI poses a greater risk to privacy by its nature, Neel explains. A traditional... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of Experience and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne