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- January 2020
- Case
A Tough Call: SEAL Team Leader in Kandahar (A)
By: George A. Riedel
The case, which is a disguised version of real events, is set in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2013) during the long running Afghan war. Lt. Paul Rickson, a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander, is leading a team of 30 U.S. and Afghan soldiers on a mission to clear hostile forces in... View Details
Keywords: War; Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Decision Choices and Conditions; Afghanistan
Riedel, George A. "A Tough Call: SEAL Team Leader in Kandahar (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-001, January 2020.
- September–October 2023
- Article
Reskilling in the Age of AI
In the coming decades, as the pace of technological change continues to increase, millions of workers may need to be not just upskilled but reskilled—a profoundly complex societal challenge that will sometimes require workers to both acquire new skills and... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; AI and Machine Learning; Training; Adaptation; Employees; Digital Transformation
Tamayo, Jorge, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun. "Reskilling in the Age of AI." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 56–65.
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
training program at the venerable Ayala Corporation—the largest and most widely diversified conglomerate in the Philippines—and attending HBS, he accepted a short-term position at Ayala and never left. Today, Zobel embraces his role as... View Details
- Web
Case Services - Faculty & Research
agreements, ensuring the confidentiality of information entrusted to HBS faculty during their case development and other research. Experienced editors are available to faculty for either copyediting or developmental editing. Case Services also provides View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
vocational training based on the Swiss model. These efforts are proving that such an approach can indeed work in the US. ‘The distribution of dignity’ People want a dignified way to earn a living and contribute economically. It’s not... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
hiring Companies should train managers to root out racial bias from their hiring and recruitment processes. They should also invest in retaining black professionals, in part by reinforcing the message that race will not be a barrier to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy
company developing a novel therapy to combat cancer. “Entrepreneurship wasn’t something that had ever been on my radar before Harvard,” said Zutshi. “I found it so powerful, the idea of marrying the technical and business side of things. I love the technical side, am... View Details
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
want to respond to the next challenge they encounter? Harness knowledge. The work done at this tier is the culmination of the progress made in the two previous tiers and the execution of their technical duties. Leaders with sufficient technical View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(1) Technological Innovation (95) Technology Adoption (88) Technology Networks (4) Technology Platform (13) Technology (360) Television Entertainment (3) Theory (159) Time Management (11) Trademarks (1) Trade (21) Training (18)... View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
information systems. "We had so many people in the company who wanted to help but who weren't trained to help," Neeleman told the New York Times. "We had an emergency control center full of people who didn't know what to... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
cues. While standardized scripts, automation, and training that emphasizes cultural awareness can go a long way in preventing bias, managers must set the right tone and hold their teams accountable. Managers must also realize, the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- Web
Research Resources - Doctoral
planning, data collection and analysis, and reporting and visualization of outcomes. RCS also offers training workshops on research tools and practices, and provides access to sophisticated tools like the Odyssey compute cluster or the... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Patents; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Science-Based Business; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Biotechnology Industry
Azoulay, Pierre, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart. "Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-136, May 2009.
- Portrait Project
Samrath Oberoi
As a Dhol (drum) player, I was introduced to powerful beats at an early age. Mere training of the beats, though, wasn’t enough. My maturity as an artist came from understanding the artistic meaning behind the white spaces – the moments of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn of World War II Shirley launched Tradefilms, Inc.,... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
allocated the cost of their trains over time, but Rosenthal notes that slave owners were doing this before then. Starting in the late 1840s, Thomas Affleck's account books instructed planters to record depreciation or appreciation of... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston