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campus last Wednesday, which included a troubling confrontation between one of our MBA students and a subset of the protestors, has left many of our students shaken. Reports have been filed with HUPD and the FBI, the facts are being evaluated, and it will be some time... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

products were grouped in 241 “style-colors'' and sizes. When the allocators received a recommendation from an interpretable algorithm, they often overruled it based on their own intuition. But when the same allocators had a recommendation from a similarly accurate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

various stages of their personal and professional lives. We aspire to connect you with each other, share with you the latest faculty research and innovative ideas from the field, and bring you together to work on solutions for our world’s... View Details

18 Oct 2022
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When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

algorithm perpetuates this. Another source of bias is incomplete or unrepresentative information. A famous example is facial recognition. If I use mostly photos of white men to train the machine to learn facial recognition, the machine... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Mar 2021
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The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

invited to interview, but was not admitted. I tried again the following year with the same outcome, but this time without an interview. Both of these rejections were tough. However, I learned a lot about perseverance, and I hope what I... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

culture, shifting its mission from a product-oriented “computer on every desk and in every home” to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” The assumption is that “to be the best” just doesn’t measure... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2020
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Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

by overcoming personal struggle before, and she knew firsthand what supplies fellow shelter survivors needed most. Kato accepted the challenge, reopening her store 11 days after the earthquake struck. Soon afterward, seeing customers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Getting Started - Alumni

have resources to ensure you are putting your best foot forward. Learn more about LinkedIn Perfect Your Pitch One of the most important tools in your career growth arsenal is the 30-second elevator pitch – a succinct View Details

16 May 2024
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On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

22 Apr 2019
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Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

HBS and recently wrote an article called Sales Managers Must Manage for Top Sales Magazine. “It’s all about the difference between learning to take care of yourself and learning to take care of others, from... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Public Education Leadership Project

your schools Build high-performance leadership teams that continue to learn and grow Adapt successful practices from other school systems to the needs of your district Expand your personal and professional... View Details

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Finding Talent Opportunities

Hire Talent Finding Talent Opportunities Hire Talent Finding Talent Opportunities Post a Job Ready to recruit? Learn how to post internships and full-time jobs for students and alumni. Read More About Posting a Job Access Resumes Access... View Details

16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

crisis. In addition to the operational learnings around banking and ensuring not all of their cash is in one vulnerable place, it was a big wake-up call for many founders in terms of how they do everything to keep their cool with... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

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Events - Business History

5:00 p.m. This year's business seminar will be hosted in person at HBS. Please RSVP by email to bhi@hbs.edu to attend. Nov 25 25 Nov 2024 Business History Seminar Charles Fawell (Yale University), “Empire on the Line: Shipping... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

to working in social enterprise. The 2023 Goldsmith Fellows are: Rehan Adamjee. A joint degree student at HBS and HKS, Rehan recently served as the strategy and growth lead for Vital Pakistan, a 300+ person healthcare organization... View Details

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Your Alumni Community - Alumni

interest groups. Alumnae Circles HBS Alumnae Circles are small groups of HBS alumnae who get together monthly to discuss a myriad of issues. Circles are designed to foster genuine relationships between alumnae, and give women the opportunity to View Details

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 May 2013
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How to Spot a Liar

would happen naturally," Van Swol says. Ultimately, the receiver had to decide whether the proposed allocation was fair and honest, based only on a conversation with the allocator. Thus, it behooved the allocator to be either a fair View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Your Coach Will Help You Become a Better Leader

identify areas for further development, and create an action plan to help you succeed. These programs also offer group coaching for living/learning groups to ensure that everyone benefits from the small-group work—an important part of the HBS View Details

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