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13 Nov 2017
Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

scholarships and about half of the students here get tens of thousands of dollars in aid each year. Worry more about getting in. HBS, through fellowships and other aid sources, will help you figure out how to make the numbers work. There are also View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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Ludcke House | About

as home to the Doctoral Programs, External Relations, the Communications Group, and HBS Operations. The building also experienced several name changes, including Alumni Center, before it was rededicated in honor of Gipp L. Ludcke (MBA... View Details

23 May 2024
News

HBS After October 7

questions to the panel based on the themes expressed in the more than 300 questions participants had submitted in advance. The conversation featured updates and insights from Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs and View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Module 2 Driving Change at Scale: Moving Beyond the Firm Learn what purpose-driven firms are, the "Wheel of Change," and why businesses must act to solve large global issues, such as climate change and income inequality. Highlights Prisoner's Dilemma Cooperating with... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

developing economies and globalization at large. “The cluster concept is often used to consider local factors,” Giacomin says, “but there’s a growing awareness that many clusters are also driven by external forces, such as foreign direct... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

January 15, 2019
Article

Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron

The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

– Less Info Our research on the market for CEOs among larger US companies purchased by private equity firms finds that almost 75% of the new CEOs are external hires. The median buyout in our sample earned 2.5 times on its equity... View Details

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

headaches it causes. Rather, bribery's most significant impact is its negative effect on employee morale. Initiation, Detection, And Response Serafeim aimed to find out how bribery affected a firm's operations across four dimensions of competitiveness: its View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

of the people that I work with? And also the communities that I serve. And I constantly challenge myself. How can I be a force multiplier for good? Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

gatherings for social purposes, and the eventual opening up and recovery of the world economy. About the Authors Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School. Ofer Mintz is Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

technology is launched externally for small businesses. After a corporate-wide restructuring, Bracaglia moved to Alphabet’s life science firm, Verily, where he worked on Liftware, a counterweighted spoon that maintains stability – a... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

for our courses. Our Enterprise Pricing is based on a Participant Seat Commitment, and we offer volume-based discounts. Can we host HBS Online courses on our LMS? HBS Online courses are only available on the HBS Online platform. Our courses cannot be hosted on an View Details

27 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

will operate, recognizing that’s decades not quarters. This requires considering our current and future customers, communities, employees, and shareholders—not just the people we are working with today. The externalities of... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

self-determine and self-report continuing education credits earned from external sources. CFA Institute members are encouraged to self-document such credits in their online Professional Learning tracker. Free E-Book A Manager's Guide to... View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

not sufficient anymore. 2. The internal control systems are broken. 3. The best response to the above is to strengthen externally imposed controls by improving the flow of information to capital markets, by shifting power to shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

outside base module and the proprietary firm's open extensions could result in a stronger free competitor. So the firm is more likely to open substitute modules, rather than complementary ones, to the outside OS project. We do find that the firm will prefer to adopt... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

19 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile

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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

is longest. If you would like to unarchive a project space, contact RCS . For information about how to archive your data to an external drive, see our technical note on archiving your research files . View Details

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