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01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

way in which we can teach managers how to build and lead a data-driven organization. A large barrier to making that happen so far has been the need for our students to gain basic familiarity with at least one coding language. GenAI is... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

Asia Pacific Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World Pictured: Masato Nakamura and Yasu Sasago (both MBA 2020), at far right, with team members at the 2019 pop-up ramen event in Cambridge. For world traveler Yasu Sasago (MBA 2020), being... View Details

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Memoir of Leaning in Too Far and the Journey Back . Sanibel, FL: Temple Press, 2016. Nevins, Allan. Herbert H. Lehman and His Era. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963. Silverman, Joseph. “Spoken at the Funeral in Temple Emanu-El.” In... View Details

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Demonstration Policy | About

other form of collective action on the HBS campus should register with HBS Operations at least three business days in advance of the desired date. Groups that may necessitate additional security should aim to register as far in advance as... View Details

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

but they could still claim their own pieces of the brand, the sports car lines, that remained uncontaminated." Lessons For Brand Managers More than a decade since Porsche launched its first SUV, the gamble so far seems to have paid... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

close friends where phones and PDA's are off limits. "When we're secure in the relationships that matter most," DeLong writes, "it's far easier to take chances at work, to embrace new experiences, to tackle challenging... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

eucalyptus in conjunction with other crops, assisting them with technical training and inputs. Fibria achieves far greater land and water efficiency versus traditional plantation methods while improving the productivity and income of more... View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

accountable. “But what you start to realize is that the problems that have been uncovered have been going on for a very long time,” says Dennis Campbell, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Far from being... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

centers into more nimble operations that can sustain its renewed brands far into the 21st Century. Nancy F. Koehn, James E. Robison Professor Of Business Administration: General Motors was formed in 1908, the same year Henry Ford brought... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

Profile

Jay Bhandari

to campus. A year in, I've found the range of personalities and backgrounds here to be more expansive than I had anticipated. The community feels far more close-knit than the size of the student body would suggest. View Details

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

love would be tested by the miles between us as we studied and worked in North Dakota, Ohio, Chicago, New York, England, and Colorado. Dating long distance, we were constantly looking forward to the next weekend we could spend together, though they were often too few... View Details

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

National Institutes of Health that spurred more women to become scientists and discouraged biases among men in the field, Koning says. While male inventors far outnumber women inventors, biomedical patents secured by women rose from 6... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

sections we have the benefit of getting to know two different groups of students and partners pretty well, which has been an added bonus. Are there many couples at HBS? There are lots of married, engaged, and long-term couples at HBS - View Details

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

employee morale was by far more significantly affected by bribery than any other factor. That's important because studies have shown that employee morale is directly related to a firm's performance, including stock market returns. For... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

bought the rest of the stock and changed the name to Boston Concessions Group. From the beginning, O'Donnell's vision of the company's future went far beyond the traditional parameters. "The way I looked at it," he says, "we were in the... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009, though, while at an event at NASA... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Faia is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Sean Silverthorne: What has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

positive image contributes to the success of their initiatives. Understanding and replicating this positive perception could be a valuable consideration for other similar entities globally. Their demand far surpasses their supply. So this... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

environment where there’s what my colleague Amy Edmondson would call psychological safety—an environment where people feel free to speak up with new ideas even if those ideas may be far out. They have to feel free to call out mistakes and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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