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30 Mar 2016
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To Woo Apple, Foxconn Bets $3.5 Billion on Sharp

25 Mar 2016
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Four Mental Habits Of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs

14 Mar 2016
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Even A Company Known For Overworking People Is Embracing Sleep

11 Feb 2016
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Adopt the 'Wonder Woman' pose and power up!

13 Oct 2023
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Program for Research in Markets & Organizations (PRIMO)

31 May 2023
HBS Case

Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story

for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, say Hise Gibson and coauthors of a Harvard Business School case study about Miller's life and... View Details

Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

nations, regions and cities; and solutions to social problems. Our mission is to help leaders in business, government and nonprofit organizations make measurable, lasting improvements based on Harvard professor and Institute director... View Details

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

Do lower-income families need and deserve access to fewer things than everyone else? As a society, we seem to think so, revealing a "grim double standard," finds a study published this month, Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption. It was written by... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Oct 2023
News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

students a wider range of topics to study. Kierstead also noted that HBS has been experimenting with programming and activities that are both educational and build community. HBS Online and Executive Education Updates Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999), executive director,... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” The spy manual struck a chord with Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, since he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Apr 2025
Blog Post

How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs

For large numbers of Harvard Business School MBA graduates, the first post-degree position is not merely a return to the workforce, but a deliberate pivot toward a new ambition. “Many MBAs are switchers,” notes Kristin Brennan, HBS Career... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

and borrowing costs. Evidence suggests that this is, at least partly, explained by recovery costs. There is also some evidence that a corporate legal structure affects the design of the debt contracts. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

Ambitious New Year’s resolutions often end in disappointment. So instead of setting unrealistic goals in 2022, business leaders should consider making smaller, simpler changes—and they just might see better results, says Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Sleep

Most people spend about a quarter to a third of their lives sleeping. For an activity that is such a large part of our lives, we know very little about it. Dr. Bos is working together with the Center for Sleep and Cognition at the Harvard Medical School to investigate... View Details

March–April 2002
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The Importance of Being Strategic

By: Michael E. Porter

At the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative's recent North American Summit, Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence Professor at Harvard Business School, addressed the question "Is the world changing too fast for companies to have a long-term strategy?" "No," said... View Details

Keywords: Strategy

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15 Jul 2010
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and Porter, Michael E. "A Strategy for Health Care Reform," New England... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

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January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
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Student Educational Loan Fund, Inc. (Abridged)

By: Peter Tufano

Rick Melnick oversees the Student Educational Loan Fund (SELF), which provides loans to Harvard Business School students. SELF is changing the terms of student loans from variable-rate with semiannual payments to fixed-rate loans with equal monthly payments. Melnick... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Financing and Loans; Business Education; Interest Rates; Education Industry; Boston

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