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01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

you might not speak the language, work in teams with students you might not know, and develop critical solutions to a business’s pressing issues—in just eight days. That’s the concept behind FGI, a required course for first-year MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

face a decoupling risk that leads them to be more likely to enact substantive actions in situations where they are likely to be monitored. 2014 Working Paper The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities... View Details

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

complexities of working in social enterprise. Independent Projects Organizations benefit directly from student interaction and output, as teams work on a View Details

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Logging In - Research Computing Services

/export/projects/ See our Research Storage instructions for more information on home folders and project spaces. Continue on to our Running Jobs section for instructions on getting work done. Guest Users can... View Details

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Founder - Entrepreneurship

President’s Innovation Challenge Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) Build Entrepreneurship and Tech Skills: Tech Club & CAML club workshops/seminars Rock Center and i-lab workshops HBS Course notes on the Harvard Business Publishing Site The Entrepreneurial Manager... View Details

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

jobs with competitors. They can often even prevent them from working in the same industry, especially when employers are intentionally vague in defining the competition in non-compete agreements. As Professor Matt Marx of Cornell... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

like Instagram where content is crafted to project an idealized, aspirational self, TikTok’s creations go out to an audience of people you don’t know. Many popular YouTubers have production teams, offices, camera people, and editors.... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

research suggests there was something at work beyond simple greed, setting the stage for deeper exploration of how incentives shape not only what we do, but also how we perceive reality. “The question of incentives is fundamental to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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Research Design - Impact Investments

of the fund managers. The goal of this project is to build upon previous work from the Private Capital Research Institute (PCRI) and the Harvard Business School Private Capital View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

hard to remember a time when they weren’t a regular part of civic conversation. But as Rivkin notes, the data pointed to such concerns long before 2016. “Those of us working on the US Competitiveness Project... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

consultant Kevin Rumsfeld conceived of the idea for HealthCraft, he had worked resolutely to begin building the company by recruiting a talented colleague to help with marketing and fundraising and a junior member of one of his View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/a-global-leaders-guide-to-managing-business-conduct/ar/1 Working PapersDynamically Integrating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

could be one of the biggest obstacles to achieving our climate goals. This session will examine different approaches, from policy to trade schools to exciting new and incumbent companies putting the workforce at the core of their business models. 12:00 p.m. View Details

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The paper describes the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2021
Blog Post

The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

As I worked through my two failed attempts, I realized I had the privilege of time to define my professional goals. This allowed me to tell an authentic story in my final application to HBS. I went from trying to impress the admissions... View Details

20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Regional Winners - Alumni

Region: International Track The Endowment Project The Endowment Project is an outsourced alumni development, fundraising, and asset management business aimed at creating the philanthropic infrastructure for... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, View Details

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