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- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
these programs to exist beyond the global pandemic because of the unique ability to connect with students across geographies and expand the pool of potential candidates. To help organizations think through the process of creating a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Profile
Hunter Goble
am in the process of founding a company, including building the business strategy, articulating a development plan and courting investors,” Hunter says. “I’ll continue this work part time (as all of us are)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
still have a number of manual processes here, so we see a lot of scope for more and more businesses in Jamaica to become technology-enabled, particularly in health care, financial services, and agriculture. There’s been some growth in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
overview of key issues that Lebowitz and his team must consider as they plan for the firm's growth—how to raise capital, how to gauge the optimal size for the company, and how to manage an expanding staff. A major highlight of the case is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of her masculine, aggressive style in the classroom. As she begins to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS
Before attending HBS, Annie Fulton studied Architecture at the University of Arkansas and worked for a building materials company. It was important to Annie that she become more involved with the decision-making process of what is built... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
a degree in marketing. She then spent three years at GE Healthcare as a process improvement consultant before coming to Harvard Business School. Post HBS, she worked as a senior analyst in Nike’s corporate strategy department before... View Details
Platform for Dialogue
critiques that elevated my work in a number of ways. Although I arrived as a historian of early modern South Asia, HBS catalyzed a process of broadening me into a scholar of comparative societies and the history of global capitalism. One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
of information that she could not find elsewhere, she realized her research might help others as well. "The book is the collective wisdom of those who've been there, the anecdotal advice only a friend might tell you," observes Cohen. "Putting it all into a book was a... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Ernst & Young. Love was preparing an important bid for a large industrial manufacturer that needed help installing an enterprise resource planning system. He had already directed projects for implementing information systems for... View Details
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
investing in smaller businesses. Educational Objectives The course focuses on how to manage smaller businesses with an emphasis on the financial aspects of buying and growing these businesses. The cases are designed to give students practical knowledge that will be... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process at every level happens in ways that are not always intuitive to people who think about strategy as a top-down planning process. For example, customers can capture what gets considered in a formal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
to 8 students each. Smaller groups facilitated by one or two company representatives allow for increased participation. Also, set your company representative up for success with plans for facilitating the conversation. Create a View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a proposal indicates that the... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
believe that the process of voting has resulted in an unacceptable outcome. More generally, we show that procedural justice plays a key mediating role in determining the relative success or failure of various empowerment initiatives—from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Program Policies - HBS Online
changes, time zone miscalculations, or local technical issues. If a participant knows they are or will be in an area with limited internet connectivity, they are expected to plan to meet the course deadlines. Early and active... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
development interests on asset management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance Unit (1986-88); as senior associate dean, director of Faculty View Details
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Janina Motter
says, “were skeptical about my mixed background – start-ups were more open.” Her first company collapsed after a year. But she found a more enduring – and rewarding – path forward at Heliotrope Technologies, a smart windows startup. Hired as a View Details