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  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson experienced her first big-stakes professional failure when she was just starting out in her academic career, some 30 years ago, after a decade working in engineering and consulting. Little... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

8 FAQs on the MBA Application

workspaces provide the right environment to be open about your graduate school ambitions. Think about who has seen you develop and grow in a professional context, who would be able to speak to specific... View Details
  • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
  • Exercise

Janet Ames (C)

By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Personal Development and Career; United States
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Leading Global Businesses

Lead with self-awareness, cultural sensitivity, and empathy Develop a global leadership team that reflects the diversity of its global customers Align people around your company's purpose and values Build internal and external networks... View Details

    Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

    I think that most business school research should examine and help solve real-world problems that managers are facing--or that they might face in the future. This means that these scholars need to choose relevant research questions, and propose and test hypotheses... View Details

    • Web

    Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status | About

    locations, or onsite with an organization. Harvard Business School grants alumni status with successful completion of any of the following programs: the Advanced Management Program, General Management Program, Owner/President Management, Program for Leadership View Details
    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Book

    HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

    Fast and Fix Things. Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full PotentialWe tend to avoid failure at all costs. But our smarter missteps are worthwhile because they can force us to take a different path that points us toward personal and View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 11 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 11, 2016

    physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2008 (Revised January 2017)
    • Case

    Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke

    By: Anthony Mayo and Shandi Onise Smith
    As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Ethnicity; Race; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Welfare; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Banks and Banking
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    • 15 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

    engine, that outboard motor is going to start [to sputter]. If you don’t know [the second curve] is there, or you’re afraid to use it, then it’s just going to be clear decline.” The striver’s curse Professional athletes expect that their... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Research Summary

    Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

    Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

    • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Exercise

    Janet Ames (A)

    By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
    The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Personal Development and Career; United States
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    • 28 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS

    technical skills with the business skills I was acquiring at HBS. Towa Adegboyega (MBA 2024) Having learned about the Career and Professional Development Office (CPD) during the summer prior to the fall... View Details
    • 2010
    • Book

    Builder’s Apprentice: A Memoir

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    In 1986, Andrew (Andy) Hoffman quit an engineering job, declined acceptances for graduate school at Harvard and Berkeley and accepted a carpenter's job in Nantucket. Unbeknownst to him, he had entered the world of high-end custom building. Within four years, he was... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Construction Industry
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    • 21 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21, 2008

      Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Help - Alumni

    connect alumni to others in their region or a particular industry. Baker Library Can alumni use Baker Library? The Baker Library team partners with alumni throughout their learning journey. We strive to provide comprehensive services and resources to alums to support... View Details
    • June 2010 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Meltdown

    In 2008, Blue Man Group's three co-founders are facing the prospect of losing not just a business but a way of life they have built together. The case follows the story of Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, and Phil Stanton as they pursue their creative passion and build the... View Details
    Keywords: Arts; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

    your business as a whole—to look outward and craft local, regional, and global strategies and to look inward and lead organizational changes that create value and drive performance. Developing these skills on the job can take years—but... View Details
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    redesigning iconic products like the Billy bookcase to make them easier to disassemble and repair, how secondhand retail pilot programs at IKEA stores are reaching new customers, and how investments like RetourMatras are developing... View Details
    • April 2022
    • Teaching Note

    Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

    By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details
    Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States
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