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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

exposure to early-stage angels and investors. If you decide to participate in Demo Day, you are required to work with a faculty member to prepare. This includes two mandatory coaching sessions with faculty to get feedback on your proposal... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

Matt Higgins

landed on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Higgins serves as an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School, co-teaching the SIP “Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer”. Matt can provide advice and support on: building and scaling startups e-commerce growth... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#60;#Services

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

buyer. Now translate the same situation from a brick-and-mortar bazaar to an online peer-to-peer marketplace such as Upwork, which allows businesses to outsource work to freelancers, frequently overseas. “Workers on the market have lots of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

through feedback from the judges. The judges included alumni and seasoned professionals from foundations, impact investing, capacity-building organizations, and social enterprise startups. “We received valuable View Details

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

openly about their issues in confidential settings. True North Groups provide the feedback that enables leaders to understand their blind spots, open up hidden areas, and gain a deeper understanding of who they are. These groups offer a... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

belief that her own ability in math is lower.” Women discount positive feedback about their abilities In an experiment for Coffman’s working paper Stereotypes and Belief Updating, participants completed a timed test of cognitive ability... View Details

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

who are able to speak out. Lynn Offerman, writing in the HBR, suggests to the CEO that "one simple test of whether you're getting the feedback you need is to count how many employees challenge you at your next meeting." If... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert Smith. The mobile patient View Details

Keywords: April White

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Resources | New Venture Competition

Track include: NVC Pitch Deck Template Early Stage Feedback Entrepreneurs In Residence (EiRs) Past Pitches Social Enterprise Track Resources Resources offered exclusively for the Social Enterprise Track include: Examples of past team... View Details

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Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class

specific learning points for the purpose of a given program’s goals. HOW DO YOU APPLY PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK TO THE NEXT SESSION OF A PROGRAM? AB: My co-instructors and I are always on the lookout for ways to improve our programs and... View Details

15 Sep 2016
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Movies That Move People

carries with it a certain responsibility. “When we get feedback that people around the world have been impacted by our work, that they have made them more aware of things and more caring, it’s the most gratifying feeling. It’s better than... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Ready, Set, Launch

critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Escape from Alcatraz

Conquer: To escape from the first room of the Spook House, team members have to divide up tasks, each taking responsibility for observing and reporting on a different part of the room. Fail to Succeed: What can you learn from sand, shells, and doubloons? How to... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

and provided feedback to frontline workers on 24.5 percent. The researchers reviewed surveys taken before and after process improvement activities, supplementing them with in-person interviews with frontline staff, department managers,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

and how they relate to the role. Furthermore, to the extent possible, Llano encourages recruiters to share feedback with candidates who aren’t selected. While Llano ultimately landed her ideal role, it came after some rejection – as is... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need | Working Knowledge

information and be transparent. And the very act of being productive—just doing the work together—becomes a feedback loop that can bond a team and help create the conditions for psychological safety. Uncertainty and interdependence are... View Details

15 Aug 2017
Blog Post

What is Field Foundations?

100th anniversary, several faculty participated in an analysis of the MBA Program. They took a closer look at what was working and what we could improve upon. Feedback from companies and alumni indicated that the school should provide... View Details

03 Dec 2024
News

From One to Many

In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details

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