Personalized Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

results for both sides. The person inflicting injury will almost always end up losing—psychologically, socially, and/or financially—as well. This is obvious in a negotiation between family members who want or need to keep a mutually... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

also spent time connecting with professors outside of class. They are my biggest champions and personal board of directors. I also got some hands-on leadership learnings from my stint as the Co-President of... View Details

22 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

taught me orienteering, wilderness survival, and more. I remember once we even ate carpenter ants we found on a log, just to learn all the different ways a person can subsist in nature. My mom and I liked to... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

there are stumbling blocks and challenges when creating something so new as an agile network. The most powerful person who reported to Davidson hated the dual system and "everything that went with it," Kotter writes. He argued there was... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

businesses where one person has voting control of the organization and makes most of the key decisions. During this stage, the board, if the company has one at all, is most often composed of other family members, friends of the owner,... View Details

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

Enabling Reliability, Validity, and Knowledge Spill-ins through Inferential Learning Activities Authors:James Oldroyd and Ranjay Gulati Publication:Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This exploratory study examines... View Details

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Help - Research Computing Services

your files on the HBSGrid to an external drive or DVD. Change your Unix command prompt Execute a few simple commands to have your Unix prompt display your current directory. Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Follow this how-to to learn... View Details

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

Independent Director, Goldman Sachs Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners As a student of philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, Bayo Ogunlesi learned that some lectures were optional. Several weeks into... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

the best of all worlds, yes, but most won't. Before disclosing to anyone, one must learn who has a reputation for integrity in the industry. In dealing with most people, it's wise to require them to sign nondisclosure agreements. It... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

outgoing or creative? Gino: We can learn to bring out the badass in ourselves and part of what we do is to show people how from a person who’s done it, [Saint John]. Frances and I see our role as putting a... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

concept of “maximal sustainable yield”—that is, the amount of goodness that a person can achieve over time without depleting their ability to do good in the future. He argues that mistakes and biases in our thinking keep us from realizing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

thinking about the next step of my career. I’d learned a lot at Google while working on some of the biggest mobile apps and products in the world, getting exposure to thinking strategically, managing teams and having impact. However, I... View Details

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Anonymous Content, the US production company behind Spotlight and The Revenant, and Korea’s Anthology Studios. Deeply personal and highly autobiographical, Offerings tells the story of Dae Joon, who comes to the United States from Seoul... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

Viroopa to learn more about the JD/MBA experience. Given that JD/MBAs spend more time at Harvard, do they take advantage more of research opportunities and resources? Absolutely! Since the program is four years, JD/MBA students have the... View Details

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

that, Conn says, the rules of strategy that he learned in business school no longer apply. So how do we change the way we solve strategic business problems? In this episode of Skydeck, Conn talks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about his... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

20 May 2024
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

community, and humor. “I have a deeply held belief that I should be learning from every single person I encounter,” said Roberts. “My dad’s biggest leadership quality was being self-actualized—a very hard... View Details

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

transferred to a personal account from his corporate email account. The board also was able to allege that Easterbrook had actually had physical sexual relationships with three other McDonald’s employees in 2018. In other words,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Blog

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

Healthy Minds by philosopher John Kaag. This book is a fantastic summary of the life and work of William James, the father of modern psychology, and a professor right here at Harvard. James endured intense personal struggles and is known... View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

innovation, specific collaboration needs, or team building—meeting in person may be preferable. But rather than dictate a one-size-fits-all approach, Neeley says, business leaders should allow individuals and managers to figure out the... View Details