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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for Innovating in Health Care (Wiley, forthcoming). Hubert Joly : Named HEC Paris Person of the Year in 2020. Hubert Joly : Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in 2016. Geoffrey G. Jones : Selected as a Corresponding Fellow of the... View Details

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

other business function. But the ROI is disappointing because much of the training misunderstands how salespeople learn, is classroom-centric, and fails to take advantage of new tools that stimulate peer learning and enable the use of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

service, it is helping the person send money home. He will stay with Safaricom. Plus, as soon as his wife gets the money, what do you think she's going to do? She's going to call him on the phone, and that will increase mobile... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

below: Git and GitHub Julia Jupyter Notebooks Machine Learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV) R and Python Rclone to sync files to/from cloud storage services (e.g. OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, etc.) SAS and... View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global

the rights stated below with respect to that person’s personal data, if the personal data is processed by the Center within the scope of the Law: Learn whether or not that... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

face rejection are job requirements for entrepreneurs. “No one person can build a company,” says Dahod, reflecting that one of the most difficult moments in his career was when he sold Starent to Cisco and decided to build a new team. “I... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

observers. What Lerner and Tirole learned has led them to suggest ways that the commonly espoused motivations of programmers might be different when people work on open source projects as opposed to "closed" projects. Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

10 May 2019
Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

was also traveling) without her. Find your way to be social. Full disclosure, I have never been a party person and I was even less so with a three-month-old when school started, and I had a whole new school schedule to figure out.... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

to nominate a person for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2016, 2017, and 2018. 2016 Eva Ascarza : Finalist for the 2016 Paul E. Green Award from the Journal of Marketing Research for “The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention using Plan... View Details

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

government provides tons of support for its elderly population and has the most efficient, clean, and orderly public transit system I’ve ever witnessed. Care, community, and culture are deeply engrained into the fabric of South Korea. These first-hand View Details

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Baker resources for HBS Alumni

What Baker Library resources are available to HBS alumni? Alumni research needs are supported in the following ways: On-site access to Baker Library for life: Visit Baker in person to access an extensive range of databases... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

I’d have been as strong of a person entering the workforce as I was. —Annette Friskopp (MBA 1990), coauthor of Straight Jobs, Gay Lives: Gay and Lesbian Professionals, the Harvard Business School, and the American Workplace (1995) with... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

simply you and the person on the other side of the table, but it is often much more complex, requiring an act of disciplined imagination rather than a mechanical list. In our new book, we systematically work through ways to get the right... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

of an idea with the potential to solve a problem or address an unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen’s life. One such person is Deward Walker, who in 2007 challenged Keen with a question that has a recurring role in Sacred Seed’s origin story:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

distress prevalent among Chinese women. MOONWISE intends to produce bite-sized courses for teenage girls and provide training for teachers and parents. Clockwise from top left: Rea Savla, Sophy Wang, Benjamin Schedl, Teresa Danso-Danquah What did you View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

years. Similarly, Digital Equipment Corporation couldn't match the flexibility of the personal computer assemblers' processes, Sears couldn't match the inventory turns and low prices of the discount retailers, and so on. It is important... View Details

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

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

write about a personal past experience that fit one of five categories: unethical, ethical, positive, negative, or neutral. The participants mostly wrote about commonplace actions (cheating on an exam or padding an expense report, for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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