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13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

couch, clearly afraid. “Can you just leave it on the doorstep?” she pleads. Whitman flips back to landscape view to check on the creeper outside. He’s not going away. Quibi is the only company pursuing premium, short-form video... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

20 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care

Despite the pressure, “Most people love their practicums!” In the third and final phase, Redwoods transition into their fulltime roles. They assume management positions while being mentored with not one, but three DaVita colleagues with whom they View Details

Keywords: Health Care

12 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

technologists together at HBS. We want to keep our technical skills sharp and create accountability to learn and build while getting our MBAs. We’re an all-levels club. You can check out more about CODE in this MBA Voices blog post. What... View Details

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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online

using AI tools to check spelling and grammar before submitting. o Asking an AI chatbot a question and using the provided answer to inform your thinking as you write a response in your own words. All sources must be cited; see below for... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Ready for Departure

beginning to see,” Lim says. Changi also implemented a host of new health and safety measures to make the various touch points throughout the airport less touchy, beginning with check-in: Travelers can print their boarding pass and check... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2019
News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

Bhartia and Raamin Mostaghimi (both MBA 2014). The book gives early readers insight into how to add value and avoid checked luggage, plus lessons on the language they’ll need to manage up: When a partner asks for 15 hours of work in the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 2000
News

Short Takes

New Alliances: Forming For-Profit and Nonprofit Partnerships Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently for-profit firms and nonprofit recipients have begun to join forces to better... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

long-running stories, it is often the episodes that take place off the beaten track that most capture the imagination. Some classmates may check in only once or twice in their careers, while other reports might appear only because a class... View Details

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

had stuck with him, including the best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA)—which essentially entails outlining a fallback plan if things go awry and offering a reality check for people caught up in anger. It was a particularly... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

21 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

clothes at a retailer, or checking into a flight at an airport-and in which NCR software would register the transactions, securely store and process the data, and use the transaction information to help NCR customers efficiently manage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

compare prices over the web irons out cross-border price differences and expands trade. A poor farmer in India can check commodity prices on the Internet before he sells his crop to the local buyer. Thanks to a progressive decline in data... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

people asking you to do more things. And so, it's not that I can set aside time to be creative. My life has to be creative. I have always needed to be asking questions when I lived my life that allows me to see things that otherwise I wouldn't have seen. And so, when... View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt. A... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Program Policies - HBS Online

will not be issued a refund unless Harvard Business School Online elects to do so. Please be advised, if the original payment was by Western Union, refunds will be paid by check and mailed via the United States Postal Service (USPS).... View Details

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

feels compelled to share every sordid moment of your life online, yet are also aware that most job recruiters check candidates’ social media channels during the hiring process? Then maybe you rely on apps like Snapchat and Instagram... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

other countries, and give them a grade. This would introduce some external checks on judicial systems that have become too politicized to be of any real use in the fight against corruption. View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

WorldCom or Adelphia. The failures at those companies were more likely caused by a combination of fraud committed by individuals, inadequate control and governance systems that tolerated clear conflicts of interest, and a frothy market in which analysts failed to do... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. REIS
Search millions of real estate data points that... View Details

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

When I arrived at Klarman Hall, the buzz was much like an ordinary convening. People were checking in at the registration desk, pouring coffee, and catching up with colleagues. But this was not an ordinary convening. I was on the Harvard... View Details

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