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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
cannot provide tax advice. Do I have to write a thank-you letter to my donor? Fellowship recipients are matched with the donors who make this program possible. Donors appreciate hearing about your work and how the fellowship has supported... View Details
- 21 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree
(IFCs), writing programs, and independent clinics. It’s a remarkably versatile degree that gives you a great amount of flexibility. Viroopa: What I have taken away from the program is that JD/MBAs follow a wide variety of careers after... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company... View Details
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
belief that “good teachers are made, not born,” Christensen and several other faculty members responded by writing numerous cases that reflected a broad range of classroom situations. “While there were no paint-by-numbers solutions,” he... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
much more likely to remain in an organization, leading directly to fewer hires from outside the organization," Heskett writes in the book. "This, in turn, results in lower wage costs for talent; lower recruiting, hiring, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
scuba divers. Layton, p. 52. Thomas Layton writes that “Warfare, and its consequent disruption of normal maritime commerce, ensured a strong demand for fast vessels to evade British and French warships and sneak cargo into blockaded... View Details
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David Velasquez
always tried to purchase a back-up cake). Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My mother (I still love you, Dad). I could write an entire book about the sacrifices that she made for my brothers and me. For the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
& Peace” course stands out as a favorite. It even inspired him to write his fourth book and his first novel, The Peacemaker’s Code, released this month. The book is a science fiction thriller in which a young Cambridge historian is... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 20 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
anyone reading this and still in the closet, it's okay. Move at your own pace. You don't need to come out today or even next year. But when you do, it will be worth it. Matt Wood (he/him), Class of 2024 Coming out as queer felt like I was finally given the agency and... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS
vision that I am now pursuing. I wove a narrative of an audacious moonshot dream, of literally going to mine the moon--combining my professional and academic experiences as a mining engineer and my personal interest as a space enthusiast. Now, as a second year MBA... View Details
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Citation guides
Where can I find the proper format for citing a source? Students can use the HBS Citation Guide for guidance in writing papers and projects and also take advantage of our online learning module, Learn with Baker Library: Citing... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
However, there was substantial variation among academic departments. That finding suggests that there was not yet a systematic effort to diversify case protagonists. With that insight in mind, we delved into faculty characteristics. Were some faculty more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 02 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women
rank,” the researchers write in the article, The Dynamics of Gender and Alternatives in Negotiation, which was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Asked whether the classroom setting of the negotiations included in the study... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
Foreign Policy, July-August 2003], I became so fascinated with China that I began to travel extensively there. In the course of writing this book I spent time with all sorts of people in better and the less well-traversed parts of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies to institutional and retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Working Paper
Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases
By: Richard L. Nolan
This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention
Nolan, Richard L. "Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-026, September 2013.
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com
Trust
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
following only those willing to adapt? Should someone write yet another book, perhaps with a title like Commit: Why Success Always Requires Continued Commitment to Good Ideas? What's the downside of "adapt"? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett