International And Comparative Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

is highly dependent on the chemistry, the experience each brings into the relationship, leadership styles and many other internal and external factors. While having cofounders... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

that the market exists, the incumbent can muster its internal resources to co-opt the innovation, unless the entrant has made that path unattractive. Natural incumbent motivation shifts from flight to fight. View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

million revenue in the third quarter of 2023. McKnight and his team are currently working with 14 countries to develop pathogen-monitoring programs—what Concentric calls a “bioradar” system. The most public aspect of this system is... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

10 May 2019
Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

we want to be can be hard. As a mother/parent, it may actually be easier, and this is because your boundaries are so much clearer. Being a mother/parent grounds you – don’t miss the good part of it! Don’t View Details

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Business School. Alexandra designs and executes research pertaining to management education and pedagogies that support participant-centered learning. Project areas include... View Details

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

especially true as the first in my family to go to grad school. The biggest influence in my life has been my parents. Throughout my childhood, my parents worked multiple jobs to give me the educational opportunities I had—that’s a big... View Details

20 Oct 2023
News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Centers The globalization of business has long encouraged Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty to research international business practices and the effects of globalization. Seminal contributions -... View Details

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Greenhill House | About

space for the Global Initiative , which was launched in 1996 to deepen the School’s long-standing focus on international course development and research by facilitating closer ties with companies, academic... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

support all these activities through a conscious and proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Events - Business History

Financial Cooperation from International Organizations (1960s-1970s)" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and... View Details

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 May 2023
News

Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

This year marks the return of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an experiential learning opportunity that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum hands-on exposure to how business... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

management as its core educational organizing framework. The Required Curriculum has historically had a core course in general management and The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) provides a powerful context in... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

revenues, including current use gifts and distribution from the endowment. In fiscal 2023, the School’s total revenues increased by $101 million, or 11 percent, to $1.1 billion from $966 million in the prior year, primarily reflecting the... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Engaging Students More Deeply

Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter... View Details

Keywords: April White

June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar and Annelena Lobb

As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details

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28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

question poses, and plumb the depths of your thoughts searching for an answer. While I don’t yet have a suitable answer to the question, I do know that I want to act with purpose and make decisions that will... View Details

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

example, a 2017 study found that across 72 predominantly Black New York City neighborhoods, Airbnb hosts were five times more likely to be white. And the same study found that white Airbnb hosts in Black neighborhoods earned an estimated... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Subjects: Grade 11 U.S. History, Grade 12 International Relations Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945 elective, Grade 12 Women's Studies elective, Grade 9 Cultural Studies VA Erin Grigsby Princess Anne... View Details

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