Point Four Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

you beyond your limits in terms of intellectual challenge, diligence, and time management. But you emerge from the experience a better student, attorney, businessperson, leader, manager, and even a better person. Second, the program may... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

intellectual community of scholars studying business’ role in society and supports the development of new research initiatives at BiGS. Sarah Gazzaniga Programming Manager Sarah Gazzaniga serves as View Details

29 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Demonstration Policy | About

designate a moderator in consultation with the event's host. A moderator will generally be a member of the faculty or senior staff of HBS or Harvard. The moderator's aim is to act as a neutral arbiter and to ensure that speakers take open questions from the audience at... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

happening in the United States, the Chenault brothers and their four co-founders, Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen, found themselves in deep discussions about how they could help solve a centuries... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

typing ls /usr/local/bin or ls /usr/local/app , to see what else is in the default PATH. Additional Notes on PATHs By default, when you log in to your account, the default PATH variable , a Unix variable that defines where the system should look to find commands that... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

nuts-and-bolts process of transitioning to a career in renewable energy. Tell me about your experience before coming to the MBA Program. I enrolled in the ROTC program as an undergrad at Boston University; initially, I was attracted to... View Details

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

Branding Personal Branding is a three-week online certificate course that equips you with the tools to define and express your purpose, values, and points of differentiation. [...] Read more 08 Jul 2025 The Benefits of Asynchronous Online... View Details

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

interdependent tasks, and stable, appropriate composition, Edmondson says. "Here we say we've got only the minimal version of those four factors-just a whisper of those things-and yet we get an awful lot of benefit." Performance... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

experiences, such as meeting President Barack Obama, joining a lifelong sisterhood in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and representing my school in the nation’s capital as a White House HBCU All-Star. I am proud to be a graduate of the largest HBCU in the nation. At... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School. Bridging the fields of business and education, CSML integrates world-class faculty and... View Details

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

our country as ‘zombie’ towns, each state may have a larger part in how Amazon operates.” Guy Higgins pointed out distinctions between practices used to gain market power in the past and present. “Standard Oil was an abusive monopoly,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

example of sales-related hyperbole, Cespedes points to the dire predictions that online buying will eventually cause the real-life “death of a salesman.” While online information sources affect selling, retail sales through ecommerce... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

start; landing stretch assignments; and building a network of developmental relationships. In framing each of these four challenges from the point of view of the emerging leader, I hope to underscore my... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

problems for colleagues. They are demanding to the point of being abusive, they make promises to clients that their colleagues cannot meet, they take too much credit for success, and they generally are unable to adhere to commonly shared... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

amounted to 29 percent of the School’s total revenue in fiscal 2023, 2 percentage points lower than in fiscal 2022. Executive Education Executive Education tuition increased by $50 million to $224 million from $174 million in the prior... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

executives is to imply that business management itself is a profession—but is it? Sociologists who study the professions have employed a wide range of perspectives and criteria for determining what makes an occupation a profession. For the purposes of our present... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Corps Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Millennium Challenge Corporation New Profit New Sector Alliance NewSchools Venture Fund New York City Public Schools New York Public Radio Nonprofit Finance Fund OneTen Coalition, Inc. Oxfam America Partners In... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

the fact that data questions touch every part of the enterprise.” The program drew C-suite executives and senior managers to look at how big data affects the supply chain, marketing, human resources, and other key business functions.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

development programs,” Beer says. Some studies have shown that only 10 percent of corporate training is effective, he says. It’s not that the content of the training programs is necessarily bad; rather, it’s that companies are not laying... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

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