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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s deadline to complete a module of the course and fully answering questions posed therein, including satisfactory performance on the quizzes at the end of each module... View Details
  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

the technologist are issues we try to avoid. Robert Simon Director, Alta Partners There are two schools of thought in evaluating new opportunities. In the first, the venture capitalist says, "I invest in people first and foremost.... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

include HBS. I knew that I would spend at least two years in consulting, and originally thought that I would spend my third year trying something new before enrolling. At the end of my third year of deferral, my coworkers and I felt that... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, argues that good people with strong ethical values, like these traders, can behave in shady ways without consciously realizing they are doing so. “I’ll bet there were dozens if not hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

2 Tips to Beat Imposter Syndrome

the professor locked eyes with me and called my name, the negative thoughts rushed in like a flood. I was an engineer before business school; I know absolutely nothing about marketing. Didn’t she know I was an admissions mistake? My mind... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

spent over an education campaign. Nudges are less effective in motivating polluters Beshears attributes the effectiveness of nudges to the way they target our thought process. He takes a page from Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jun 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Morra Aarons-Mele, The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023) Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

about, whether it’s by eating a primarily plant-based diet or using clean products in my home. I am interested in the psychology of what will drive consumer decisions to make thoughtful choices so that we can have a more sustainable... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

a manager. And then they’ll need to decide whether to embrace the job at all.” About the Author Dina Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Photo credit: myella] What does it take for a doer to become a manager? Share your View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Remix

city. It was against this backdrop that Dixon turned her career ambitions to music. “I thought that by becoming a hip-hop A&R person I could change the world, empower black voices, and also make music,” she says. There would be no bigger... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

talent, IT workers in the rest of the country didn’t get the same bump, according to the research.“We thought we could look at the same thing in different places—how it changed over time—and compare those changes to see whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

professional networking conjures unctuous thoughts of pressing the flesh with potential employers, laughing at unfunny jokes, and pretending to enjoy ourselves. No wonder a recent study found that professional networking makes people feel... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

By: Malcolm S. Salter
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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  • 20 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

Last August, when I was lugging cardboard boxes to the top floor of Morris Hall, I had two expectations about my first year at HBS. Firstly, I thought I was entering a holiday-like period where my school work would take me two hours a... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

for consumers—and selling a lot more razor blades. Such hidden opportunities can become even more apparent by investigating "extreme consumers," since they can overemphasize thoughts and behaviors that all consumers of a product may... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jan 2022
  • News

Making Peace with Anger

that this was a problem? WW: I recognized that my anger was a problem the day that my wife turned to me and said that we were getting separated and that she wanted to get divorced. Prior to that moment, I always thought that my intensity... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • News

The HBS Tunnels

ahead a dark opening, closed off with chicken wire, that might well have had Dante's words at the entrance to Hell, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here,” written over it. “Aha!” I thought when I first saw this. “That’s the tunnel under... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS

stories. And that translated over into the actual MBA experience itself. My first year of school, I mean, just how vulnerable people let themselves be about the things that they'd gone through or the thoughts that they have percolating in... View Details