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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

future. Education is an investment that does not go to waste. Once someone has that spark of experience, there’s no way to take that away from them." Today, the organization has grown to include more than 200 fellow teaching assistants and nine View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

05 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

Listening only to information sources and opinions that reinforce their own views carries great risk of missing alternate points of view. Instead, leaders need to tap into myriad sources covering the full spectrum of viewpoints by engaging directly with their customers... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

courses are completed successfully, learners will earn a Certificate of Specialization. HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in Leadership and Management , Strategy , Entrepreneurship and Innovation , Business in Society ,... View Details

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

that as a philanthropist, impact investor, board member, employee or corporate partner. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate Faculty: Marco Di Maggio The advent of new technologies and big data promise to... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

organization.” It is similarly beneficial to employees: “To be engaged, employees must feel heard and understood. Moreover, they must see their thoughts and reactions come to life in the real world. This is an opportunity for new leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

their True North.’” The recollection helped Kloeblen define two dimensions to his search: that the right role for him would involve collaboration, and that it would be driven by a desire to turn companies into “positive actors” in their... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

up with innovative business ideas that could help both groups/cultures. A team of experienced entrepreneurs judged the business ideas on creativity—for example, broadband Internet, while useful, scored low on the creativity scale, while a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

August 2023
Case

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

1980s, these two, with Sanyo and Sharp, had driven both the U.S. and European consumer electronics companies out of their own home markets. Japan's achievements are unparalleled in the annals of industrial history, a particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

the leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators that we become later in life, paying dividends that far exceed any minimum-wage salary. Here, alumni share stories about their entry-level errors, as well as the personal and professional... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Launching Tech Ventures START NOW HBS Online now offers this course on-demand, allowing you to begin your learning anytime. No application needed—start your... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

labeled the leading digital currency, Bitcoin, a “fraud,” likening it to the 17th century tulip bulb mania and adding that he would fire any employee caught trading it. But on October 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that rival Goldman... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

endowment increased to $80 million, from $56 million in fiscal 2020. Cash giving for construction projects totaled $8 million, compared with $5 million in the prior year. Current use giving—both restricted and unrestricted—provides crucial funding for View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

constituted the center of my world.” It wasn’t easy to be gay in the 1970s—not that it ever was. Anita Bryant was spewing vitriol, Harvey Milk was murdered in November 1978, and six months later I was ostracized and driven out of my... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

suddenly knew how to make a one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality." 50 As the project began, employees submitted their findings, signed and... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

and be innovative. However, public innovation didn’t seem widespread. Even at that time, I wondered “Why is this the case? When is the right time for the public sector to be innovative? How can innovation be... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

solutions in a new Stanford Social Innovation Review article, The Problem of Social Benefit. “We talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers.” A virtuous cycle of social good Nagle, a professor of business administration in... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative teaching philosophy and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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