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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
cooperative problem solving. Parties conducting internal negotiations within well-run companies are likely to improvise in this manner. If you've successfully negotiated a new job assignment after a promotion, you've probably used a... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
establish clear mechanisms for coordination and escalation in health crises. Collectively, the recommendations present a worrisome take on the WHO’s current capabilities. At the same time, they lack the specificity needed to be inspirational or actionable. "The... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
First love: Performing. “I spent pretty much every weekend from the age of five singing, acting, and dancing at the local theater school.” Take a bow: “My dad is originally from Zambia. Back in the day he bought rudimentary music software and laid down guitar tracks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
researchers, practitioners, and the public. Greenwood notes that “on the website you can click on a country and immediately see the probability that a given sector within that country is currently experiencing a bubble . ” For users... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
experiences of my life, and it was probably something I could have done only when I was not fully engaged in raising young children," says Silbert, the mother of eight-, eleven-, and twelve-year-old children. Asked if she might enter... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
dehumanizing, ugly, and dark places. If you tried to imagine the worst place possible to put someone, that’s probably what you would come up with.” Reset’s first residential program facility in Berkeley, California, opened last year with... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Australia’s largest supermarket chains, as evidence of success. The grocery giant makes weekly food donations from 550 of its stores and enjoys significant employee engagement. “What we do with Coles is the best example in Australia—and View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
$260,000. Minority applicants had a 22 percent probability of being matched with minority loan officers, the authors found. Meanwhile, white applicants had a 95 percent probability of working with a white... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
"Every Day at HBS is a Gift"
career planning to experience mapping and goal-setting to identifying and approaching recommenders to writing (and re-writing) essays to researching schools so you understand their intricacies – all of which you’ll do while you probably... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
“rush” brand! —Clyde Ensslin (MBA 1984) Consumers seem to discover music digitally and purchase vinyl records for tangible ownership and connections. Thus, sensitivity to an additional two-week time lag is probably not high. Because the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
It’s crucial not to put pressure on oneself during this time, but if you’re a goal-oriented person, it can help give direction and get the break off to a good start. 2. If you’re worried about being able to take time off from your business, you should View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
Building codes are finally being rewritten, although the U.S. is still far behind Northern Europe. The real challenges will be in rewriting zoning codes, redensifying communities, and creating area-wide planning especially difficult in tradition-bound New England.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
balance, etc. What’s your favorite HBS case and why? It's probably the case Class of 1976 that we had in LEAD during our first year. At a time when most of us were working out our next steps for the summer and after school, and, let's be... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Fellow HBS Classmates Enriching the Internship Experience
way can help (It can be as simple as a reporting manager encouraging an intern to meet with other classmates over lunch). Regardless, the sooner an intern is truly comfortable at work, the likelier they will be their “best” selves. .. And those are View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
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Zayed Muhammed Yasin
from all walks of life, people passionate about solving problems," he says. Once he graduates and completes his residency, probably in ER, Zayed is interested in organizing a company that can address health care problems head on. As... View Details
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Ben Seipel
of the finance people I trusted helped me see that I probably wouldn't find it fulfilling—I'm not a guy who can sit behind a computer screen for ten hours straight, I'm a people person." Last summer, Ben interned with Intel in Santa... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- Profile
Ann DeWitt
she completes her MBA, Ann would like to start a new business of her own. "I think my career will go back and forth between small start-ups and large companies," says Ann. "They'll probably all be healthcare or bioscience... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
protection against the storm. So that was probably the first critical application of what I learned here. I still remember the day, walking in that morning and there were several hundred people looking at me saying, ‘What do we do next?’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
returned to many of his former clients with a pitch for an entirely different type of online opportunity: a place to show campaign ads to people who probably don’t expect to ever see them. After a stint at the Treasury Department during... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
distinctive aspects of transformational outsourcing. First, senior management has the explicit intention of transforming the organization, and secondly, the impact of the change is measurable at the enterprise level. Why should HBS alumni read this book? Those who are... View Details