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03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

"brilliant jerk"? What do you think? To Read More: Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), especially pp. 164-174.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

input from employees on what they need. This may seem obvious, but in the 2021 Future Forum survey, 66 percent of executives reported they developed their post-pandemic workforce policies with little to no input from employees. View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

of emissions on a farm-by-farm basis. Arla has developed a sustainability incentive model to incorporate the carbon footprint of each farmer’s milk production as a factor in their compensation. By allocating points across a variety of... View Details

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

to address ever-changing challenges. "Companies struggle to onboard employees even when times are good and relatively predictable." The only way to fast track onboarding and enable those workers to reach peak performance as soon as possible is to be very... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

Runjiao XuHarvard Business School Case 211-107 In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

Mumbai, surrounded by a large extended family, Ash Dahod read Reader’s Digest from cover to cover. “That was my view of life in the United States,” says Dahod. “I was fascinated.” The thumbnail version of Dahod’s journey has many elements... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Venture Competition Judge A capstone event for students who have worked to develop new venture plans while at HBS. All participants present live to experienced investors, entrepreneurs, and experts and receive invaluable feedback at each... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

the African American community. By 1914, it had grown to more than 10,000 members in 600 chapters. Wendell Thomas Cunningham (MBA '15), pictured center, was the first known African American HBS graduate. He joined Cunningham & Sons, a prominent real View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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History - Entrepreneurship

students who have worked to develop new ventures while at HBS. All participants present live to top investors and entrepreneurs and receive invaluable feedback at each round of the Competition. $315,000 in cash plus in-kind prizes! View Details

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

“no contact” delivery protocol. With our system, volunteers get to decide when and how much to help. Additionally, we have decided to build a matching algorithm to pair volunteers to requests. We looked around at some of the different volunteer efforts emerging and... View Details

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

Sarah Bua HBS Career Coach Read Post: Ask a Coach: How Do I Find a Mentor? Build upon professional development skills using Harvard ManageMentor Spark's Skill Builder tool Build upon professional View Details

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

innovation to develop winning, executive-level strategy and position your business for growth. 6 weeks 5-6 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

of HBS to global startup regions. FALL Is becoming a joiner right for me: Attend Rock/CPD career panel What does a startup job search look like? Meet with a Career and Professional Development (CPD) entrepreneurship coach (login required)... View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

Professionals in Heavily Regulated Industries Learn more about the broader macroeconomic and political landscape your organization operates in, so that you can develop business strategies that create and capture value. In Global Business,... View Details

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

outside of our normal set of experiences" (Erich Almasy), learn "by failing in previous endeavors" (Rindge), have an "ability to read people ... and situations ... (pick) up on all relevant cues and (know) what to... View Details