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2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism - MBA

the HBS Citation Guide , including: Quotations : When using the words of someone else, the words must be placed within quotation marks and cited fully, including the page number(s) on which the quoted words appear in the original text.... View Details

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Brice Fodouop

strong impact on Africa. The Africa Business Conference attracts a thousand people a year; the alumni base on the continent is important to me.” “The HBS ecosystem has been critical in my first few months... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

School’s Program on Negotiation. “What was it that they figured out that allowed for disagreement to be productive? What can we all do so that disagreement turns out to be productive rather than damaging?” Key, the researchers found, was... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

20 Apr 2011
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Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

training in ethics and corporate programs focus on intentional acts. We saw an opportunity to contribute to our understanding of how so many unethical acts occur. Q: Why don't traditional approaches to thinking about ethics work? A: Most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

multiplicative,” says Stanton. “If you have a better boss on a team, you get more out of each individual worker.” “These results suggest the most important peer is your supervisor” As a consequence, it may be tempting to assign more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

26 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus and beyond. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked LASO members to tell us about what being part... View Details

30 May 2024
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How to Have Effective Conversations

figured out what kind of conversation we're having, trying to get aligned, right? At that point, one of the things that you want to do is you want to show the other person that you're listening to them. There's View Details

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

powerful impact on practice. But the benefits have not come without costs." Montgomery maintains that strategy has been narrowed to a competitive game plan, separate from a firm's larger sense of purpose. This has led to the eclipse of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Past Issues - Alumni

Alumni Bulletin Past Issues Select a Year 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 September 2024 Next Level How Sarah Bond (MBA 2006) is taking View Details

21 Feb 2018
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When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

the most similar to ours’—that means the same disease and same mechanism of action—‘and we’re ready to react when they have a result.’” (Acting on your competitor’s actions isn’t always so cut-and-dried,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health

20 Apr 2015
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The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

that no one had ever seen and that no one understood what it did was brilliant” Those are the questions David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano address in their new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

5 Modules Business Analytics Beginning with basic descriptive statistics and progressing to regression analysis, you’ll implement analytical techniques in Excel and apply fundamental quantitative methods to real business problems—from performing A/B testing View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

and has been passionate about pedagogy from a young age, always reflecting on her own educational experiences. She is excited to enrich those of other students through promoting adoption of the case method.... View Details

29 Mar 2022
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5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

years. That’s a lot of war, natural disaster, and political turmoil to survive. The new book Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind looks at the ingredients of long-lasting businesses in South Asia, focusing specifically View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Overseers—is one of the many ways Harvard continues to play a central role in her life. Palandjian has always been interested in bringing business skills to social challenges. Initially she channeled her... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

platform, big but always playing catch-up to YouTube. There is an alternative hypothesis. TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion of its... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

01 Mar 2024
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Counter Intelligence

big believer in focusing on the job that you do, and I’ve always wanted to be the best at whatever that was,” says Christou, who did well enough that he was soon promoted to assistant general manager. It was... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

[This is the sixth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We recently asked 600 CEOs: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? A major and multifaceted concern that emerged is... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Eduardo Avalos

your most memorable classroom moment? HBS has a section tradition called Flag Day in which we deliver small presentations on each country represented our classroom. I am a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S. I proudly represent two... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate... View Details

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