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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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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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

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29 May 2018
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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

Keywords: by Michael Luca; Food & Beverage

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

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