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Being a Student Mom at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
integration.” Within two years of buying out Zain, operating in Africa as Airtel, Bharti has added more than 14 million new mobile customers (for a current total exceeding 50 million), while investing approximately US$1 billion in network... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
reporting is the combination in a single document of the material measures of financial and nonfinancial—environmental, social, and governance (ESG)—performance and the relationships between them. Sustainable strategies for a company that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Knowledge Web site, and a dedicated effort to identify willing IT volunteers through the local clubs and alumni associations. Global Alumni Conferences These meaningful and rewarding conferences -- last June's Berlin gathering was an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
nonfinancial rewards of teaching. When asked for highlights from the last year, he enthusiastically describes a session where he asked students how his class could be better. “In business, we'd call it participative management,” he notes.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
develop effective strategies for building new leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. Many participants, whose careers had diverged from more traditional business paths when their family-related responsibilities... View Details
- 14 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is a Career Coach?
(what industry/function/role is a good fit for me?) through the strategy and tactics of a successful job search. How do you match students with coaches? We have our coaches reach out to students for an initial meeting in the first few... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
The course brings together several innovative elements. First, students are engaged with the faculty in developing the course’s concept and content, including video, simulations, workshops, and other new teaching methodologies; second, the course is focused on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
territories, there’s hardly a place on earth that hasn’t been represented in an HBS classroom. Who knows. Maybe the Class of 2012 will boost the School’s total country count even higher. Roger Thompson View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
you pop your trunk, the employee is there to load up the order and send you on your way. “We’re thinking of this as a pit stop: We want you in and out in under three minutes,” Pedró says. From Baker Library: Online spending for groceries could reach 20 percent of View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
some implications for the future growth of the industry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804176 Blue River Capital Harvard Business School Case 708-448 Examines the strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional expansion View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
helps explain why platforms offering a restricted number of candidates can coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, while charging higher prices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
concern for a wide range of constituencies—has been pushed aside and has been replaced by a technical definition of what is acceptable. So there's also no question that we need to strengthen the internal systems that guide conduct within a firm: performance evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
strategies prompted by a changing climate with the help of a panel of four HBS alumni with expertise in finance and energy, including Hui Wen Chan (MBA 2010), Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
control of people’s schedules could be achieved without negative organizational consequences. So was it relatively easy to get team members on board with this? Not at all! Remember, this was totally counter to the intense work culture at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
1997; since that time, it has overseen six funds totaling more than $1.1 billion. With the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continuing to batter the industry, Depatie takes a clear-eyed look at what the future might hold for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
hurt the industry’s credibility since the stimulus money would reward all comers — both sure things and high-risk projects — and keep investors from focusing on maturing, economically feasible technologies. — Sarah Auerbach View Details