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- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
in-office and remote, and we’ve entered a gray zone in which people are asking, ‘What will permanent look like?’ It’s comfortable to think of our remote work environment as temporary; it’s much more difficult to think about what long term... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
helped enrich the class’s understanding around cases in tech, marketing, and strategy. #3 The case method teaches you to lead in the unknown. The protagonists in almost all of the 500 cases we read and discussed had imperfect information. They had to make a decision... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the neglect of the others. When this happens, even the emphasized drive will in time become frustrated. To maintain a reasonable balance among the drives requires hands-on steering by the leadership of the organization. Like riding a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Adelina Pak (MBA 2024) The first time I ever asked my parents for help on homework was at HBS. Growing up as a child of Korean... View Details
- Profile
Ethan Li
operating." And it opened up new questions for Ethan. "I realized there may be something limited about my skills and the way I think about things," he says. "I was developing breadth, but I wanted depth, too. I thought it might be good to step out... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
my promise to myself was to actively maintain music as a core part of my life, as I was afraid the “MBA life” would be too time consuming to be able to do any music. Although I did continue to sing, I am a little embarrassed to admit that... View Details
- Web
Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Negotiation Mastery LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
a Google doc or Slack. This is how virtual companies work. If you and I are working as a team, I can work in a Google doc and explain what I’ve done, and you can wake up in a different time zone or city,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
mother always told me), and 2) work outside the family business for at least a few years. Working outside of your comfort zone with a ‘real’ boss who is not a family member is an experience that I benefitted greatly from. The ‘outside’... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity, a paper published this month in the Academy of Management Journal. Multicultural teams may need managerial nurturing to overcome frictions. Photo: iStockPhoto "A lot of times when we... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
comic strip. Another wrote a personal essay about her struggles to overcome the stereotype of being the "Shy Asian Girl." Another student, who came from a retail background, wrote an open letter to clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch about why "It's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
over time as an industry matures and ultimately declines. To maintain high returns and keep your family company modern and competitive you need to make well-timed, significant bets in growth businesses. Some of these bets can regenerate... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise
The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and beyond graduation. In this feature, we highlight... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
Unit. “The crisis accentuates what remote companies already understand—that work does not need to happen at the same time,” says Choudhury. “People can wake up in different time zones and cities, open... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not leaders." Targeting Talent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
the Zone of Potential Agreement; that negotiation isn’t about intimidation and leaving the other party behind.” 02138: “When I was in the MBA program I lived on Mass. Ave., right across the street from Harvard Yard. I loved the vibrancy... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
allowed HBS to thrive at a time when many other schools were hunkering down. Racial Equity Plan ANNOUNCED In September 2020, HBS unveiled its action plan for racial equity, with ambitious goals for advancing racial equity within and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
development projects that are imposed from above, with little concern for local needs. By the time she arrived at HBS, Dlodlo was herself the single mother of a two-year-old daughter, a circumstance that made business school a grind:... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
likely to say no armed group in the conflict represents them—opposite to what is expected when civilians are captive in the conflict zone and must choose sides for their protection. Respondents also show heightened volunteership towards... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
profession, by joining the U.S. Army and deploying to multiple combat zones – including going to Syria to support the women militias fighting ISIS. Warfare shapes all lives, which is why women must challenge to belong in its highly... View Details