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Demonstration Policy | About

intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible with these qualities. In the context of a University, reasoned... View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

was often predictable. The concept of talking to extreme consumers was developed to push students out of their comfort zone. "There is an enormous gap between chatting with your friends and chatting with people on the streets in Vietnam," says Norton. "This View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

exercise of getting the mix just right “had almost a pharmaceutical effect on me,” she says. Hip-hop, though, hit a nerve. “I liked the nerdy braininess of digging into the lyrics and wordplay, but it also mashed up the soundtrack of my... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

The Concept of Capitalism, deserves some attention. In it, Scott describes the context in which the debate about the role of government should take place. It's an exercise in political economics, one in which the relationships between... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Wrap-Up Featured Exercises Categorize business model characteristics and environmental, social, and governance criteria Reflect on challenges and opportunities of sustainability strategies 5 hrs Module 2 Public Equities Understand the... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

conducted an AI exercise called “Storrowed” with students, using GenAI tools, to understand why some trucks ignore the height warnings of overpasses on Boston’s Storrow Drive and regularly get stuck, causing traffic backups. The goal was... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 Oct 2020
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Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

socialize and exercise rather than work longer hours, add up to a lot of time. And our choices powerfully shape whether we’re happy or not.” Here, Whillans shares six research-based strategies for managing the minutes on the clock, all... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

supreme control, people who give us a feeling of security and stability”—until we find out they have too much hubris and self-focus, causing them to exercise power in destructive ways. The NYPD is a case in point. Getting the right people... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

all business units to explore the budget implications of several strategic alternatives. The following discussion will help stimulate your thinking about how your own company's budgeting process can be transformed from an exasperating View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

Venture Immersion, a two-week course in January 2019 that included design-thinking exercises and the prototyping of a venture concept. MS/MBA students participated in the Technology Venture Immersion, a two-week course in January 2019... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

exercise a systemwide role despite being only a small part of their ecosystems' mass. Despite Microsoft's pervasive impact, for example, it remains only a small part of the computing ecosystem. Both its revenue and number of employees... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

01 Apr 2013
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First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the new call agents completed an exercise ranking the individual strengths they would exhibit if stranded on a life raft at sea; they also spent time considering how their responses might differ from their colleagues'. Then, the agents... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

25 Apr 2007
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Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Unstuck I have a number of exercises that are designed to enable the reader to shift to this more metaphorical way of apprehending life. One exercise is called the 100 Jobs exercise. It has nothing to do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Understand how power really works Cultivate power to make an impact Avoid the pitfalls of power Build networks as a source of power Assess your organization’s political landscape Develop influence skills to shift power dynamics Exercise... View Details

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Peter Gumulia

fintech in South East Asia, as Chief of Staff and VP of Strategy and Growth. Looking for new challenges Having had the opportunity to observe the gray areas that the management team had to navigate – and the ambiguous decisions they had to make – Peter sought... View Details

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and reinforce your... View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Love to Profits The Current Energy System Transatomic: Bringing Nuclear Power to the Forefront Show Hide Details Concepts Lipton Tea Business Models Jumping the S Curve and Dealing with Uncertainty Featured Exercises Business model and... View Details

27 Feb 2006
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When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

that he has such a last mover advantage may discourage third parties from investing in trying to purchase the asset. But all that is turned upside down by the before and after rights we studied, since in those, the right holder has to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

companies to expand their brands. FGI teaches you how to grab a blank sheet of paper and innovate in the globally competitive 21st century economy. You will exercise your leadership skills and 200+ cases of classroom experience in a... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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