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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
from individuals, and they might be coming from models or machines,” Grushka-Cockayne says. “They might rely on a lot of actual data, or they might be subjective in nature, and it doesn’t matter. The idea is that we want to follow certain... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
“There’s no way Japan can compete globally if we can’t communicate,” he observes. “This is important for Rakuten, and it is important for Japan.” The fact that the announcement made waves throughout Japan—and is the subject of an HBS case... View Details
- 09 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte
at HBS. You have 2-4 years to think about it during your deferral; it is low risk. Also, this is the best time to take your GMAT/GRE. Most people I knew applied to business school while working, which led to a lot more stress than I went through applying to the 2+2... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
I grew up there. So the Taj is part of my memories, too. As one of the interview subjects said, the Taj is their Taj, meaning anyone who has ever walked through its doors. It's a place that means many things to many people." In one... View Details
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association
years to when HBS first became co-ed, and eight women were accepted into the MBA program for the first time. To highlight these women’s right to be in the program, they conducted a finals review session for their classmates to showcase their mastery of the View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
age where it was possible to allow data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data being a big deal to becoming a big hype. As is usually the... View Details
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Dimensions of leadership The subject of leadership permits opposite conclusions to be drawn from the same observations and data... 24 May 2021 HBS Working Knowledge Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource? 29 May 2020 Center for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
particularly volatile century of economic history. These four crises were so far-reaching that they affected virtually everyone involved in the U. S. market economy. Yet each was so complex that their causes and consequences remain View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
approach essentially joins two initially separated intellectual traditions, the descriptive and the prescriptive. For many years, cognitive and social scientists performed careful laboratory experiments to determine what subjects actually... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?
understand which programs will run during a certain time. Our Program Schedule is a useful way to see the full portfolio of programs in a specific subject area and provides an overview of our full year of programming. As a team, we're... View Details
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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online
the subject, you might consider pursuing a Learning Track to earn a Certificate of Specialization. Learning Tracks enable you to take three existing HBS Online courses within a specific subject area. If completed successfully, you’ll earn... View Details
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About
The unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, violates the Copyright Act and may subject you to civil and criminal liabilities. Penalties for copyright infringement include civil... View Details
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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
tesserae. The Tethys mosaic originally was submerged in water, created for a pool in an Antioch bath building. Visitors surely admired its central image of the sea goddess Tethys, a fitting subject for a bath not far from the... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
upstream indicators of culture gone sour, they scraped employee reviews from Glassdoor.com, a website where employees can leave subjective anonymous reviews about their employer. Harnessing machine learning to analyze text, they found... View Details
- 30 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
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Models of optimal experience (flow)
Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
lax law enforcement, and there is a lot of evidence that their capital markets are some of the weakest in the world. We have some of the strongest capital markets because we have some of the strongest legal enforcement. Sure, we need a balance. Companies have argued... View Details