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Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (B) case encourages students to assess Allbirds’ product development and go-to-market strategies now that Allbirds is a publicly listed company. The (B) case provides a 2024 update on Allbirds including its... View Details

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Student Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

since it encourages students to develop their own capabilities for reflection and self-assessment. Students may actively seek additional feedback from peers and the instructor outside of class. Ideally, instructors will be able to provide... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

to present a 3-principle framework we call REVISE. This framework classifies forces that affect dishonesty into three main categories and then redirects those forces to encourage moral behavior. The first principle, Reminding, emphasizes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2007
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Are Great Teams Less Productive?

landscape of possibilities, while a product development team struggles to understand customers' changing needs and to invent new ways to serve them, and a production team seeks to improve its work process. Seen in this way, managers have two jobs. One is to become... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson

Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Hackathon; Autonomy; Control; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management

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Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital

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05 Sep 2023
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Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

make failure discussable. It’s about doing everything you can to encourage transparency to ensure that when things go wrong, we learn the very most we can.” By normalizing failure, Edmondson says, supervisors like Heemstra allow people to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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lifelong learning, growth, and success. Learn more. Admissions Criteria and Process We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have... View Details

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candidates in all fields for full time positions. Candidates with outstanding records in PhD or DBA programs are encouraged to apply. Learn More Contact Information Marketing Unit Harvard Business School Morgan Hall Soldiers Field Boston,... View Details

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Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method. Admissions Criteria and Process We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and View Details

01 Dec 2023
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8 FAQs on the MBA Application

is useful as you finalize your applications in the next few weeks! We also encourage you to check out the FAQs webpage and our Pep Talk video series. Top 5 Questions We Get from Applicants 1. Does HBS have a preference between the GMAT... View Details

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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

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students without an MBA degree are required to complete two case-based HBS MBA courses. Research Seminars Students are strongly encouraged to attend and participate in seminars throughout their program. In the third year, students are... View Details

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that businesses must address in an ever-changing global marketplace. Global Reach Through a network of Global Research Centers and Offices, the School continues to build upon a rich legacy of global engagement in business education, View Details

31 Jan 2022
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Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

challenger mindset and willingness to disrupt Digitally mature companies encourage employees to challenge the status quo—even if this means fundamentally rethinking the core business. Everyone in the organization is responsible for... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

31 Jan 2012
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messages. It finds that surprisingly, actual meetings and peer pressure do not seem to be crucial in making self-help peer groups an effective tool to encourage savings. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-060.pdf De... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

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Acquisition (ETA) are encouraged to find internships with search funds and apply to the General Summer Fellows Joiner track. Rock Summer Fellows does not support an ETA pathway through the Founder track. Start-up joiners, please contact... View Details

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Savings among microentrepreneurs

Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details

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