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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
puts students in the shoes of case protagonists, helping them develop the skills and judgment required to be an effective general manager. While case discussions remain core to the School’s learning model, HBS is continually exploring... View Details
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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
accompanied by original itemized receipts or invoices that at a minimum include: student name, date of purchase, item purchased, amount paid, and if appropriate, method of payment. Expenses paid by credit card may be incurred by eligible... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
multicultural social interactions in the context of negotiations, work teams, and global leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50440 2015 Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... View Details
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Julio Cedeno
Julio Cedeno was born in Texas just months after his mother and father (originally from Mexico and Venezuela respectively) arrived in the United States from Venezuela. As the oldest among a generation of siblings and cousins, Julio was... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harvard Education Press, 2007 Abstract Teaching by the case method has the potential to affect profoundly the way that teachers, students, and professionals approach the learning process. This companion volume includes detailed teaching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
surrounded by technology in other ways, he applied to business school. After four undergraduate years of problem sets and lab work, he found the class participation required by the HBS case method a bit daunting. “I was nervous about... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
of incident is occurring in a given unit over time, even when it is being reported. That would then make it possible to focus on how particular units resolve their problems." Identifying pockets of excellence would enable more qualitative... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
economic future? How have forecasting methods changed over time? What makes one forecaster more popular than another? I chose to research these questions by focusing on the first generation of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Strategic Management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School presents "Preference vs. Practice: Unintended Consequences of Gender Preferences in Innovation Acceleration" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Of Margins and Modalities Laura Liswood Laura Liswood,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
“The question can be better understood as how people learn from qualitative information. If you think about it, it’s not that people communicate by numbers, but by natural language, by stories. A newspaper article is not just numbers.”... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) Harvard Business School was the only business school to which Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) applied for admission. “I wanted a learning process that was practical and pragmatic,” explains Bence. She liked that HBS used the case study View Details
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Meet the HBS Women’s Association - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
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Vivian Scalfi
general management focus and its power to challenge. "The case method is different from the lecture-based education I knew in Brazil," says Vivian. "It forces me to participate, even when I’m... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
at the i-lab are open to students from across Harvard as well as from Tufts and MIT. Course projects have ranged widely, but most solved problems through the innovative use of technology. One team, for example, developed an app that provides a more efficient,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
workers and managers in what to expect, 4) set up a support system, 5) tailor methods for managing careers, 6) scale the program, 7) mainstream the program. The work for managers will be harder, but the payoff to companies will be... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
your odds of achieving successful outcomes. Educational Objectives The focus of the course is to learn to use well-researched causal theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in businesses, and to predict which... View Details