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International Applicants | MBA

International Applicants Application Process Harvard Business School (HBS) welcomes students from around the globe. The admissions criteria applied in evaluating international applicants are the same as... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

franchising, institutional investment and leverage. We will consider the challenge of scale – how to achieve it and how to manage it once achieved. In addition, how founders consider a partial or complete exit and the criteria they... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2014
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Preparing for a career in investment banking

their experiences in banking. My section mates were offering help even before I asked. (SECTION F!!!!) Also, the second years were amazing. I asked for nitty-gritty details about what they did to get an interview, how they liked/disliked it, how many people they talked... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2023
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective criteria. Increase women’s access to mentors and sponsors. Performance assessment. Educate managers about gender biases that can influence View Details
  • 13 Nov 2000
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Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

by using or wearing them in the field, noting comfort, fit, functionality, and limitations. Back at L.L. Bean's corporate offices, staff members then evaluate these observations, writing significant phrases on Post-its and using this... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge

through career growth, says a case study by Katherine Coffman . For decades, the annual performance review has induced both hope and dread from employees and managers alike—yet some business leaders are questioning whether this traditional View Details
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

2022, a student may apply for, and receive, a Private Sector Employees Loan Reduction or a Rock Center Loan Reduction for Entrepreneurs and subsequently apply to the Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program in the same calendar year (the student must meet... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog

solutions to those subproblems — both in and outside of your problem’s domain; how to combine these subproblem solutions into an innovative solution to your problem. Approaches for generating alternative solutions to your problem, and View Details
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness constraints from a broad class of allowable constraints. The method then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

innovative model and drive adoption in the context of a network effect-based business opportunity? How does one evaluate the quality of the startup business model and appreciate the relative pros and cons of business model choices? 4. The... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores and with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

contrary to human nature to expect total objectivity from a CEO regarding his or her performance. One cannot expect a CEO in the role of chairman to prepare the board to evaluate lapses and failures on his or her part, or on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

needs—everybody benefits. Ben Roth: Another stream of work is thinking about new kinds of credit products Fondo could offer and evaluating both the new products and some existing ones to understand their impact on borrowers. For example,... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2015
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4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

skill-set to create a competitive advantage while others try to round out as many weaknesses as possible. Some form around friend groups, while others form around shared interests and commitment levels. Each of these formation criteria... View Details
  • 22 Dec 2003
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How to Build a Better Board

fundamentally understand the business. And that means a fundamental rethinking of how boards operate. This going back to the drawing board, Lorsch and Carter conclude, includes reviewing the roles boards serve, how the work is structured, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

also identifies criteria that make a decision strategic and derives explanations why strategies often reflect the background of the strategist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52726 And the Children Shall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

criteria with which, as extensive evidence has shown, most people evaluate policy. In particular, if the classic principle of Equal Sacrifice augments the standard Utilitarian criterion, optimal tagging is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

of the criteria for psychometric validity, and 14 showed significant relationships to non-self-report outcomes. Conclusions: Evidence of psychometric validity is lacking for many teamwork survey instruments. However, several... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel