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03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

to shape your boss's perceptions of what can and should be achieved. Aim for good marks from those whose opinions your boss respects. This is an aspect of building supportive internal coalitions. Your boss may have pre-existing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

subject to vesting. As partial consideration for their shares, each founder should be required to assign to the new corporation all inventions and works related to the company's proposed business. Incorporating early—before significant... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Starting Aug 13 5 Weeks $1850 + applicable international taxes Payment deadline August 7 View weekly calendar Enroll Now Starting Oct 22 5 Weeks $1850 + applicable international taxes Payment deadline... View Details

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

describes a selling situation, and the assignment is to plan a day, select target customers, and develop a sales pitch. The required work helps to check for motivation and preparation skills. At the interview, the candidate must explain... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

Among those who pursued residency training, the most common specialties were internal medicine (39.3%), emergency medicine (10.4%), orthopedic surgery (9.2%), and general surgery (8.6%). Physician-MBAs trained in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

puzzling and frustrating when I had the sense that our team failed to make the most of everyone's input. As a project manager I had made sure we held a kickoff meeting in the beginning of each new assignment to acknowledge all members'... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

effective manager." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jul 30 8 Weeks $1,850 + applicable international taxes Payment deadline July 24 View weekly calendar Enroll Now Starting Oct 01 8 Weeks... View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Approach problems using structured methods of gathering observations, breaking cognitive fixedness, and generating creative ideas for solutions Apply creative solutions and behavior-change analysis to innovation... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

"This course is about the big ideas of finance, and how they map the most important business and life decisions people make." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jul 09 6 Weeks $1,850 + applicable View Details

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

them. Our law schools need to do more in this area by offering courses in accounting, internal controls, and strategy. They are as important for a business lawyer as courses in civil procedure and evidence are to litigators. Practicing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

willing to give time, money, energy, and good will to their country of origin and is being pushed away. Fortunately, this situation has been changing in India in the last 4 to 5 years. In China, by and large, the diaspora has played a much bigger role. In 1978, China... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

subordinates' ideas or wishes). We found that employees' perceptions of team leader support were more negative when the leader engaged in three types of ineffective behavior: (1) monitoring the work ineffectively (checking on the status of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

evaluated before his departure, and he recorded his every move in sales reports and receipts. Sales managers at large corporations assigned salesmen specific territories and gave them monthly or weekly quotas to meet. They aimed to make... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

International Robert Higgins Highland Capital Richard Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Dean LeBaron Batterymarch Erling Lorentzen Aracruz Dan Lufkin Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Thomas Murphy Capital Cities/ABC Joseph O’Donnell... View Details

04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

Edelman, Benjamin, and Stephen M. Ryan Abstract—Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a challenge: most IP addresses have... View Details