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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Gonzalo's Story Mia in Latin America Show Hide Details Concepts Stepping into a New Leadership Role The Work of Leadership Is Different The Necessary Change Building Self-Awareness Featured Exercises Build a foundation of self-awareness... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

How Is Private Equity Funded? Three Segments of PE Should BC Partners Exit? Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to Private Equity Venture Capital Growth Equity Buyouts Private Equity Wrap-up Featured Exercises Calculate the value of... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

work, and in society. It is meant for those who want to make things happen, despite the obstacles that might stand in your way. This course is also intended to prepare you to use power responsibly, resist its corruptive perils, and View Details

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

dance floor...The process must be iterative, not static. The challenge is to move back and forth between the dance floor and the balcony, making interventions, observing their impact in real time, and then returning to the action.” This View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

optimal cofounder JDs for each role. Once each has taken a stab at this exercise on their own, share these JDs with each other (converge) and discuss where you were all coming from for each role. Not only will this better define each... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

tech startup that aims to deliver “exercise as medicine” to people living with chronic disease. Simin first became a passionate believer in the power of exercise through her own experiences on the Harvard lightweight rowing team and... View Details

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

sound intuitive, but they can be difficult when working across differences. Throughout the day, we practiced these ideas with short exercises in the hope of building a muscle for discomfort. Discomfort and joy may seem incompatible. As it... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

Teaching Interest

Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

we might ask whether, when President Franklin Roosevelt said at a particularly dark point during the Great Depression that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," did he really believe that or was he trying to exercise... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Take a Seat in the Case Method Classroom

maker. No simple solutions exist– yet through the process of exchanging diverse perspectives, countering and defending ideas, and building on each other’s thoughts, you become adept at analyzing issues, exercising judgment, and making... View Details

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Mark McNeill

the role play) were totally shocked! The exercise was a great way to give people a sense of what it might have felt like that first day Rakuten held its board meeting completely in English. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I... View Details

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Batten Hall | About

milestones, educational TV’s first star, chef Julia Child, launched her career. The upper two levels of Batten Hall include 10 curved, modular learning classrooms known as “hives,” developed for small-group exercises and team-based... View Details

28 Jun 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini

21 May 2014
HBS Seminar

Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

isn’t absolute. It usually comes with guardrails that instill a degree of control and render greater autonomy possible. Some might think of control and autonomy as opposites, antagonists in a zero-sum game. My research has shown that we can deploy constraints to pave... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

wonderful experience,” says Thomke. He included GE Healthcare as an example of a company making a customer experience turnaround in a recently released learning exercise Designing Transformational Customer Experiences. The View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and reinforce your learning. Exchange ideas with your classmates, broaden your perspective, and challenge your worldview. Social Join a global... View Details

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Shad Hall | About

exercise studios. Shad Hall is also home to the offices for Operations and for Information Technology, as well as the Tennenbaum Technology Operations Center. The roof is “green”—topped with 64 cubic yards of a gravel-like medium allowing... View Details

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